Word: vocationalizing
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Another important aim of a liberal arts education is to engender broad intellectual and aesthetic interests that will survive and grow after graduation. The importance of this goal can scarcely be overestimated. The pressures of vocation and career are particularly intense in our society. Individuals abound who have grown so...
K Robert Ekhaml is an ex-seminarian now working as a crime-lab analyst for the San Diego sheriff's office. Not yet ordained, he has received a dispensation since he is only 33. The father of two, Ekhaml sees the diaconate as "a distinct vocation which gives me...
- Rene Schaller, 37, once studied theology at Strasbourg and Paris but decided he did not have a vocation to the priesthood. Now a marriage counselor, he is married, has two children and is a driving force behind the international expansion of the diaconate. A deacon since 1970, Schaller has made...
Male chauvinism may be too strong a term, but the word from Pope Paul VI hardly endorsed Women's Liberation. Reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to abortions ("abominable crimes"), the Pope took a cold look at "feminine emancipation" and "socalled sexual liberty." True emancipation does not...
In just such random encounters consists the reader's true vocation. These works are capital invested in what Cesar Pavese called "this business of living." Obscure testaments to how eclectic our recorded knowledge has become, writers like Eddington and Vambery (I could name Leon Bloy, Jacques Riviere, and Paul Nizan...