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Most nuns choose a religious life because they have a vocation. Not Sister Virginia. Instead of a vocation, she had a widowed father who wanted to get rid of her. At 14, she entered the Convent of Santa Margherita in the north Italian town of Monza, took the veil two...
The Mission of the Ckurch: "It is the continuation of Christ, and therefore is similar to a voyage in which the church lives and develops and continues the work of redemption; and although it manifests all the features of a great and evident human phenomenon, it is not just human...
∙ON THEOLOGY AND JOURNALISM: Earth recalls that 40 years ago he advised young theologians to "take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible." Newspapers, he says, are so important that "I always pray for the sick, the poor, journalists, authorities of...
For Henry James the Elder, man's first calling was to be a man, and he discouraged his sons from making any premature decisions regarding a vocation. The atmosphere of the household was broadly educative, however, even if William later complained of a lack of formal pre-college schooling. Alice...
Two events of the 1870's contributed mightily to the therapeutic treatment begun by Renouvier: James started teaching at Harvard and he married Alice Howe Gibbens. He viewed the offer of employment from Harvard as a "godsend," welcoming the stabilizing influence of a regular vocation.