Word: vocationalizing
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Cavanagh was a latecomer to holy orders. Father Cavanagh had been head of a wealthy family, vice president of the Hat Corp. of America and its subsidiary, Cavanagh Hats, and he had suffered strong secular temptations almost until the time of his ordination. Only recently he was told that a...
Yaleman Cavanagh traces his priestly vocation to his World War II experiences as an artilleryman in Europe. Unmarried, he resigned from the Connecticut legislature to enlist in the Army, won three decorations for valor, and was mustered out a lieutenant colonel. "I don't like to be dramatic about...
For Father Cavanagh, despite his many qualifications, the choice was difficult. It was necessary, he said, "to shop around for a bishop," to find a diocese where such a belated vocation was wanted. "Around New York and Boston, with all those young Irish and Italians, they have all the vocations...
For the most part, Stone, who "studied quarries at close range" and learned how to carve marble for this novel, relies on his "research material, comprising some 5.000 typewritten pages." Out of this emerges the standard portrait of the boy who lost his mother at six and found his vocation...
To be called St. Pius X Belated Vocation Seminary,* it will occupy a 145-acre tract in Marlboro, 28 miles from Boston. It will train men mostly in their 405 and 503 who have college degrees and experience in law, medicine and teaching. Candidates for the priesthood will be accepted...