... of structural and cultural changes that undermine traditional understandings of the priesthood—puts the Society of Jesus in an extremely tight spot. ecclesiastical authority problems facing the Society pluralism Catholicism John Paul II sexual moral issues women Jesuits Society of Jesus faith...

... Gakkai's efforts to rebuild post-war Japan, its struggles with an ancient priesthood, and its motives for propagating Buddhism around the world. One turning point in his understanding comes as Ikeda and the Soka Gakkai strike an authentically Buddhist response to the events of September 11, 2001....

...The factors that drew men to the priesthood in the 1930s and 1940s, when vocations to religious life were numerous, differed from the tradeoffs that brought subsequent cohorts on board. In the days before Vatican II, men joined the Jesuits for a variety of mundane as well as idealistic reasons...

..., the pressure for collaboration, the impact of changing spiritualities on work, and bafflement about the nexus of priesthood and ministry. The forces pressing from the outside—principally, legal regulations, accreditation and funding criteria, and standards of academic freedom—and the responses to these factors...

...Priests were the officers in the Catholic Revolution. Their changes in attitude towards birth control, masturbation, and divorce occurred at the same time as the revolutionary effervescence which spread among the laity. Priesthood has paid a high price for its revolutionary leadership. Priests...

... (and leaving) the Jesuits, about their sexual development and orientation, and about their spiritual crises and their engagement with other religious traditions. They discuss issues ranging from celibacy to the ordination of women, homosexuality, the rationale of the priesthood, the challenges of community...