Word: vocationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ten Days After. Europe's most successful realist has risen in classically enterprising fashion from hamble origins. Born Feb. 4, 1897 in the town of Fürth near Nürnberg in Franconia, he was the son of a peasant boy who left his farm to open a...
The new book is a raggedly plotted novel whose first-person heroine, Sister Ursula, obviously walks in the footsteps of Monica Baldwin. Unhappily, Author Baldwin's story of a nun who misjudges her vocation also treads close on the path of Kathryn Hulme's The Nun's...
"Not all who come to the Monastery intend to enter the priesthood," Father Williams noted. "Laymen are encouraged to study toward this end, but there is a real place in the Society for consecrated laymen, who, for one reason or another, feel no vocation for the priestly life."
This observance of St. Bartholomew's Day has grown year by year since 1937, when it was started by Abbe Paul Couturier, an ex-schoolteacher who had found his vocation as priest at the age of 56. Until his death in 1953, grey, scholarly Abbe Couturier devoted himself to...
The Pageant Unfolds. Into the north end of Westminster Hall the American lawyers thronged for the welcoming ceremonies, many bearing their light meters and cameras, a few doffing ten-gallon hats as they entered, most of them sharp-eyed, serious men, substantial in their communities, practical men who had not...