It’s not news to say religious vocations are languishing in the United States. According to Vocation Ministry’s 2025 "State of Priestly Vocations" report, not one large American diocese is producing enough seminarians to maintain their current number of priests. The figures are similarly bleak for religious vocations.
What is news, however, is the way nonprofits and other institutions of civil society are taking this problem in hand and seeking a remedy, one religious calling at a time.
One such program, the Knights of Columbus's Refund Support Vocations Program (RSVP), encourages and supplements grassroots fundraising by local Knights' councils to financially support local seminarians and religious postulants. For every $500 raised by each council, the Supreme Council refunds the local council $100.
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