We have no way of counting how many more people left the military or denied their own vocation for service, or how many personal relationships were ended or soured.
"Your vocation is for service, service to the church … but not of servitude".
Having been a madame, an escort and a prostitute (both on and off the street), she eventually settled into the more exclusive vocation of dominatrix, performing services for wealthy and powerful clients who fancied a bit of cock-and-ball torture.
One of the precepts of our vocation is service to each other within the company.
They are worried that the new setup will divert cash from classrooms, limit the availability of "expensive" subjects such as music and science and end the public service vocation of teachers.
"But when you talk about people who chose law enforcement for a vocation, I don't think morale gets in the way of service.
"All of us are called by virtue of our Christian vocation to that service which truly serves, and to help one another not to be tempted by a 'service' which is really 'self-serving,'" the pope said.
Successive governments have squandered the NHS's best asset: the pride and sense of vocation of health professionals in caring for patients, not servicing customers.
