The College Fix
The Fund for Vocations appeared in The College Fix, a nonprofit media organization run by veteran journalists and run by student reporters. The article was titled, “Nonprofit helps 13 new applicants pay student loans while considering religious vocation.” In the article, Associate Editor Mark Lamb interviews our Executive Director, Mary Radford, and our founder, Corey […]
The New York Times
See the article featured on our facebook and instagram pages! In an article entitled, “They Want to Become Nuns and Priests. Student Debt Holds Them Back,” The New York Times covered the little known phenomenon that underlies our whole mission. Student loans are holding back young men and women who want to make vows of […]
2023 Grant Recipients
2024 Grant Recipients
Kami Beliard
I was born and raised in South Florida to Haitian parents where I grew up speaking French with my mother and Haitian Creole with my father until my parent’s divorce in my middle school years. Growing up our family attended St. Bartholomew Catholic Church every Sunday where I received my First Holy Communion in elementary […]
Stephen Kurt
The Church is my home. She always has been, and she always will be. There is a comfort that the Church brings me. She has always been there for the high moments in my life and difficult times. Being in the Church has allowed me to learn, lead, and discover the truth about the world […]
Alexander McDougall
I’m both thrilled and nervous to be writing this, but I will do my best to articulate a bit of my life thus far and how Our Good God has led me to pursue a vocation. I was born on March 25, 2001, in Ft. Collins, Colorado. I was born in Pearland, a city outside […]
Lisa Nguyễn
I was having a conversation with my brother and he made a comment about how he thought that I would be happy as a Sister. That comment planted a seed in my heart, so I started to discern religious life. By this time, I had recently graduated from university and was given a promotion at […]
Jacob Moylan
From the time my 9th-grade classmates used their newfound knowledge of world history to strike at the basis of my Catholic faith, I found myself wanting for a deeper understanding of God’s role in our world. From then on over the years of personally challenging the faith, I have found only more reason to believe […]
Fr. Matthew Pajor, SCh
My name is Matthew Pajor. I was born in 1996 in Chicago to Jadwiga and Bogdan Pajor, immigrants from Poland. My dad arrived in the United States in 1987, and my mom followed him in 1992. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs where faith was a central part of my upbringing. I was baptized […]