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Rigorism and Clericalism in the Vocational Discernment Culture of the Nineteenth-Century Catholic Revival
Abstract
Seventeenth-century reformers had developed rigorist approaches to vocational discernment and the choice of a state of life (marriage, religion, or the priesthood) that endured in western Catholic religious culture. The author argues th...
Publication · January 22, 2026
Callings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France
Winner of Two 2022 Catholic Media Association Book Awards: History (Third Place) and History of Theology (Third Place)
Shortlisted for the 2022 Ecclesiastical History Society Book Prize
The concept of vocation in an early modern setting calls to...
Publication · January 22, 2026
Vocational Culture in the Anglican Patrimony and the Ordinariates: Toward a <i>Ressourcement</i>
Abstract
In the wake of Benedict XVI’s call for the preservation of the Anglican Patrimony in full Catholic communion through the Ordinariates, this paper attempts to begin a ressourcement focused on Anglican vocational culture. Vocational cultu...
Publication · January 22, 2026
Counsels vs. Commands in Vocational Discernment
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Anxiety. Fear. These words frequently come up in commentary about young Catholics and vocational discernment. As one recent writer puts it: “Devout young adults — even not-so-young adults, in their late twenties and thirties — often ge...
Publication · January 22, 2026
Prosocial Unionism, Workplace Instrumentality, and the Union Experience in the United States, Canada, and France
Publication · January 22, 2026
Picture Perfect: A Task Interdependence and Communication Experiential Activity for Teams
Publication · January 22, 2026
Exploring the phylogenetic history of water striders (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) using genome skimming
Publication · January 22, 2026
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