The Formed Catholic Show

Parenting a Child with a Religious Vocation

The Formed Catholic Show

Show Notes

Taylor Kemp sits down with Tom Kissel, Founder of Parents of Vocations, to discuss what it is like to be a parent of a child who has a religious vocation. Tom speaks from the experience of his own daughter discerning and, eventually, entering religious life and what the process was like for him and his wife. Throughout that process they found themselves asking major questions to which they could not find answers. From that need grew the idea of Parents of Vocations, which exists to serve parents whose children are discerning religious life.

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