Jesuit

novitiate

Religious training period

• vowsSolemn binding promises
• priesthoodOrdained religious office
• clergyOrdained religious officials collectively

Vatican · Catholicism · pontifical · apostolic · province · formation

Georgetown

Storied D.C. locale

• LoyolaBasque surname, Jesuit founder
• XavierSpanish missionary name
• pedagogyArt of instruction

curriculum · university · college · preparatory · mentorship · formation · rhetoric · classics · humanism · scholarship

conscience

Internal moral sense

• ethicsStudy of right conduct
• confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
• discernmentKeen perception and judgment

pastoral · equivocation · jesuitical · sophistry · reasoning

discernment

Keen perception and judgment

• contemplationSustained reflective attention
• retreatSanctuary or withdrawal
• meditationFocused attention practice

prayer · consolation · desolation · colloquy · indifference · election · reflection · devotion · pilgrimage

theologian

Expert in religious doctrine

• philosopherStudent of fundamental questions
• scientistOne who studies nature
• astronomerCelestial bodies researcher

linguist · historian · humanist · cartographer · seismology · research · polymath · classicist · encyclopedist · orientalist

evangelization

Spreading religious doctrine

• conversionAct of changing states
• catechismReligious teaching guide
• indigenousOriginating in a region

mission · outreach · apostolate · preaching · Brazil · Japan · India · Philippines · martyrdom

• monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
• American Catholicismarchdiocese, parish council, archdioceses, Catholic school, Catholic schools
• Baroque ItalyVenice, Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan
• Catholic historypapacy, Vatican, Pope, dioceses, Catholic Church
• Catholicsparishioners, parishioner, communicant, archbishops, lapsed Catholic
• monasticsmonk, nun, abbot, nuns, abbess