The Ministry that Funds Ministers: Corey Huber, Founder, Fund for Vocations INTERVIEW | The Simpleton Podcast

Corey Huber, Founder of the Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations, hops on his landline for a conversation with Clark in this episode of The Simpleton Podcast.

Also in this episode:

• The story of the Fund for Vocations

• Corey's ministry, in his own words

• Rural life, doomers, and hopers

• Higher education is a mess

• How religious vocations and funding works

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To learn more about the Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations, also known simply as the Fund for Vocations, go to https://fundforvocations.org/

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Chapters:

0:00 Intro to Corey Huber

0:31 Corey's Ministry "The Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations"

8:36 The story of how the Fund for Vocations began

16:06 How many people does FFV support?

19:39 Do Bishops/religious orders financially support potential priests/religious?

26:42 Rural life, doomers, and hopers

29:05 The early Internet, rabbit holes, and Wikipedia

34:35 The mess of higher education and what can be done

45:26 Final thoughts

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