NCDVD. Executive Board Members Rev. Msgr. Robert Panke President, Archdiocese of Washington Rev. Thomas Richter Vice-President, Diocese of Bismarck Rev.

NCDVD

Executive Board Members

Rev. Msgr. Robert Panke President, Archdiocese of Washington

Rev. Thomas Richter Vice-President, Diocese of Bismarck

Rev. D. Andrew Garner Secretary, Diocese of Owensboro

Rev. Paul Hoesing Treasurer, Archdiocese of Omaha

Rev. James Crisman Member-at-Large, Archdiocese of Denver

Rev. Luke Sweeney Member-at-Large, Archdiocese of New York

Mrs. Rosemary C. Sullivan Executive Director, Diocese of Rockville Centre

Episcopal Advisory Board• Most Rev. Michael F. Burbidge

– Diocese of Raleigh

• Most Rev. Edward J. Burns– Diocese of Juneau

• Most Rev. Robert J. Carlson– Archdiocese of St. Louis

• Most Rev. William P. Callahan– Diocese of La Crosse

• Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley– Archdiocese of Oklahoma City

• Most Rev. James D. Conley– Archdiocese of Denver

• Most Rev. Timothy M. Dolan– Archdiocese of New York

• Most Rev. Felipe de Jesus Estevez– Diocese of St. Augustine

Most Rev. Jose H. Gomez Archdiocese of Los Angeles

Most Rev. Martin D. Holley Archdiocese of Washington

Most Rev. Edwin F. O’Brien Archdiocese of Baltimore

Most Rev. Kevin C. Rhoades Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend

Most Rev. J. Peter Sartain Archdiocese of Seattle

Most Rev. Daniel E. Thomas Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Most Rev. Allen H. Vigneron Archdiocese of Detroit

NCDVD Goals

• Formation– Provide resources and programs to assist

members in promotion of vocations

• Support– Connect members and help them find joy in

their ministry

• Advocacy– Represent interests of vocation ministry

Our Programs and Services• Conventions

– Offers vocation directors continuing education– Helps build community with colleagues from their

region and across the country– Participants return to their home diocese spiritually

renewed and recommitted to the ministry of calling men forth to Christ

• Publications– Is Jesus Calling You to Be a Catholic Priest?– Lend Your Own Voice to Christ

• Both are available in English and Spanish

• Biennial IPF Silent Directed Winter Retreat

• Biennial Institute

NCDVD 2011 Summary• Welcomed 40 new vocation directors• Increased number of additional US Dioceses and

religious organizations to our membership• Expanded Episcopal Advisory Board Members• Formed an ad hoc committee on Hispanic vocations• Stabilized financial portfolio• Hosted 30+ participants to Biennial Institute, including

directors from Canada and England• Attended various conferences of other national

organizations• Launched a Seminarian Video Contest• 2011 Annual Convention in Detroit 9 bishops, 250+

participants

Seminary Merger

• Starting September 2012, the Archdiocese of New York, the Diocese of Brooklyn, and the Diocese of Rockville Centre will begin their joint operating agreement.– Candidates for the priesthood at the graduate

level will participate in a single program of priestly formation at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, NY

– The Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, NY will renew and extend academic programs offered to lay women and men and some candidates for the permanent diaconate, as well as the ongoing formation for clergy.

– The undergraduate and pre-theology students from the three dioceses will continue at the Cathedral Residence of the Immaculate Conception in Douglaston, NY.

Hispanic Vocations

• Ad hoc Committee Members– Rev. Jim Crisman

• Archdiocese of Denver, Member-at-Large

– Rev. Luis Saldana• Archdiocese of New York, Assistant Director of Vocations for

Hispanics

– Very Rev. Roberto Garza• Rector, St. John Vianney College Seminary

– Rev. Shawn McKnight• Executive Director of the CCLV

– Rev. Msgr. Heberto Diaz• Asociacion Nacional de Sacertdotes Hispano en E.U.

– Rev. Sergio Lopez• Diocese of Oakland

• Website in Progress– Gathering resources

Membership

• Regular membership is open to all Catholic dioceses and eparchies in the United States

• Affiliate membership is open to priestly vocations personnel who are members of religious communities; seminary rectors and other seminary personnel involved in the formation of seminarians; Catholic colleges and institutes with programs of priestly discernment or formation.

• Associate membership is available to Catholic dioceses outside of the United States.

Membership

• 21 Dioceses are not members– Baker (OR)– Beaumont (TX)– Burlington (VT)– Covington (KY)– Duluth (MN)– Great Falls-Billings (MT)– Helena (MT)– Juneau (AK)– Las Cruces (NM)– Marquette (MI)– Mobile (AL)– Pensacola-Tallahassee (FL)

– Peoria (IL)– Portland (ME)– San Bernadino (CA)– San Diego (CA)– Santa Rosa (CA)– Spokane (WA)– Victoria (TX)– Worcester (MA)– Yakima (WA)

• Out of 177 Roman Rite Dioceses, 88% are members• Out of 17 Eastern Rite Eparchies, 35% are members

• Numbers of Dioceses and Eparchies per CARA data

Membership

• 9 Diocese were not members last year but have since joined NCDVD– Brownsville (TX)– Charlotte (NC)– Dodge City (KS)– Lafayette-in-Indiana– Los Angeles (CA)– Portland in Oregon– Seattle (WA)– Tyler (TX)– Winona (MN)

Input Needed

• Membership of religious communities to NCDVD

NCDVD Conventions

Input Needed

• Topics for Future Workshops– Standardization of Psychological Assessment

for Admissions and Formation

– Preaching Document

– Other topics or areas that the Bishops are working on that NCDVD should consider for future workshops?

• Presenter Recommendations– Suggestions for possible keynote and

workshop presenters

2012 ConventionRegion XI

San Francisco Bay September 24-28, 2012 Oakland Marriott City

Center Hotel Keynote Address:

Donald Cardinal Wuerl Deacon James Keating

2013 ConventionRegion X

• Dallas, Texas• September 23-27, 2013• Hyatt Regency Hotel• Keynote Address:

– Dr. Scott Hahn

2014 ConventionRegion II

• Long Island Area– Diocese of Rockville

Centre• September 2014

Winter Retreat

• Sacred Silence in Nazareth– IPF Silent Directed

Retreat• January 2012• Bethany Retreat

Centeroutside of Tampa, FL 

• Cost:– $500/5-Day

Retreat$700/8-Day Retreat

• IPF Staff of Spiritual Directors available each day

• Registration currently at 20 priests

Further Recommendations and Input

NCDVDNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF DIOCESAN VOCATION

DIRECTORS