Word: vocationalizing
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Moschella says Opus Dei does not force separations of children away from their parents. She herself has found that she is a better daughter to her parents since joining the Work than she ever was before. “But at times, there could be an irrational objection by parents...
Keefe seems to agree. He says he has been happier than ever since he moved from Adams House to Elmbrook this year. He enjoys the feeling of a warm family environment, a close-knit group of men all living the same vocation: Opus Dei.
The pity, he thinks, is that this mission becomes corrupted when Opus Dei members work too forcefully to win new members. “To me,” he says, “the idea of divine vocation is something very serious. So when you are aggressive in something...
Perhaps it's because, as a rather burly teenage sheik, al-Sabah wanted to wear only loose-fitting clothes by avant-garde Japanese designers, difficult to obtain in Kuwait. His penchant for getting the hard-to-find became his vocation. In 1991 al-Sabah began visiting the top European fashion...
Meeker's new vocation brought her into contact with relief workers in Iraq, who told her of the dismal conditions of Iraqi civilians under the weight of U.N. sanctions. She believes that Western policies have exacerbated the suffering. Her opposition to war with Iraq has taken her to protests in...