The Catholic World articles from July 1994

The Catholic World archives from July 1994

Toward a spirituality of work.
July 1, 1994... Many Americans spend more than half their days and their lives working. Many more may feel as if they spend their whole lives working - except for a few hours of sleep, television or fishing. People experience work differently. For some it...

Work and worship: exploring the connections.
July 1, 1994... A Mixed Blessing When he was still a struggling nobody seeking financial backers for a production of his play A Streetcar named Desire, the great American writer Tennessee Williams is said to have quipped, "The very rich have the most...

The servant-leader: guarding the dignity of work.
July 1, 1994... Many of you will be familiar with the wonderful story of the three bricklayers who, when asked by a traveler to describe what they were doing, provided three different answers. The first said simply, "I am laying bricks." The second responded,...

The changing world of work: challenging body and soul.
July 1, 1994... The Christian belief in the Spirit may be a useful, orienting source from which to draw when considering the varied and rapidly changing situations of workers today. For example, Christians hold that their bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit....

Finding God in the art studio.
July 1, 1994... The passage from St. Luke (whose symbol is the winged ox, on which I based my drawing) has long seemed to me the clearest confirmation in the New Testament of the vocation I have always felt to be mine - that of maker of sacred images and...

The Christian manager: dilemmas in the workplace.
July 1, 1994... Joan is a devout Catholic businesswoman in her thirties who, after years of success as a corporate sales representative, recently assumed a managerial position at corporate headquarters. She thereby became the corporation's first female middle...

Reevaluating mothers' work.
July 1, 1994... When my children were young, I stayed home as a full-time homemaker. I was busy from early in the morning until late at night cooking, cleaning, diapering, doing laundry, chauffeuring, settling arguments, and doing countless other household...

Finding God in the newsroom.
July 1, 1994... "God Dammit, I need that copy - and I need it NOW." Most of us grew up in a newsroom environment where the most frequent involving of God's name occurred around deadline time when the city editor was trying to wrest a story from a reporter....

A religious entrepreneur in the world of work.
July 1, 1994... An enterpreneur, albeit a religious one, must see opportunity where markets, clients, customers, and parishioners are being underserved. The entrepreneur must then take risks and test assumptions in order to serve the underserved market. My own...