Religious Life is the Higher Calling
By David G Bonagura, Jr. A wave of egalitarianism, swelling for over two centuries, has broken over every corner of the West, including the Church. In its backwash, among other aspects of Catholic life, the approach to vocations in the Church has slowed. Older Catholics would have heard in their youth that a vocation to the priesthood or to religious life is the "higher calling" compared to the Church's other vocational sacrament, holy matrimony. For younger Catholics, this label and this comparison have seemingly been swept out to sea. It's not that the Church has given up promoting…
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