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...Edinburgh, as part of a larger examination of the health of Scottish clergy. The first section of his inquiry determined that ministers enjoyed better health than most other Scottish occupational groups-both fewer illnesses and longer life. But a second part revealed that many of the supposedly robust clergymen complained of psychological and emotional problems. In the group under 45, three out of four had such complaints. The figures led Eadie to discern a "parsonic personality" among those who choose the church in the first place-persons afflicted with a "guilt-neurosis syndrome," who try to be "omnipotent and omnicompetent...
...that will be left. By year's end, around 200 mid-career professionals and a large number of clerical employees will be on the street. The Rev. Arvo Vaurio, whose own personnel job has been axed, is now doing "outplacement" for his colleagues. The glut of middle-aged clergymen on the market could not have come at a worse time, since slots are scarce in government, colleges and industry. Vaurio figures that the church will be lucky to place 15 or 20 of the ministers in local congregations. Many of the executives took national jobs in the first place...
...individual to another, most doctors willingly comply with the code. They treat other physicians, their wives and their immediate families for nothing, performing everything from routine examinations to major surgery. Some provide free care to medical students, nurses and hospital employees, and a few even offer discounts to clergymen...
Student employees would live in the homes of teachers and clergymen, "the kinds of people who would house college students trying to get ahead," Calder explained...
Some Jesuits found a haven in the realm of Catherine the Great of Russia, who esteemed Jesuit teaching and resolved to keep the society's schools alive. Others functioned as secular clergymen, joined other orders or created ad hoc communities with new names. When the order was restored by Pope Pius VII in 1814, there was a cadre of 600 Jesuits to begin again. But so wary were the Jesuits of earning new criticism that their first post-restoration general, Jan Roothaan, set a pattern for defensively prudent administration that few successors have risen above...