Word: vocationalizing
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Attracting more women into religious orders, given the present circumstances inside and outside the U.S. church, strikes most people as impossible. Some, however, suggest that more men can be drawn into the priesthood in spite of the celibacy rule. Archbishop William Levada, 59, who has headed the Archdiocese of Portland...
In the final words of his speech, West indicated to students that in whichever vocation each pursues, there is "no guarantee."
His tale is simple. Farmer Hoggett wins Babe in a raffle, then leaves him to fend for himself in the barnyard. A motherly sheep dog adopts him, a fatherly sheep dog growls dubiously at him, and a kooky duck gets him in trouble. But Babe wins respect, animal and human...
Sacks' course has been anything but ordinary. He was born in 1933 into a London household of high achievement. Both parents practiced medicine and instilled in their four sons a reverence for the family vocation. Three grew up to be physicians. The child Oliver was stimulated by good food, emotional...
Pope John Paul II, visibly tired after a 14-hour flight and using a cane on the tarmac, arrived in Manila as a surging sea of a million Filipinos welcomed him to the only predominantly Roman Catholic country on his grueling, four-nation tour of Southeast Asia. The visit entailed...