with him, we will discuss the catholic priesthood today, who is answering the call to priesthood, how is the vocation discerned and developed, what training and education does a priest get, how is priestly life lived out in the 21st century. after this brief break, please join us as we learn from father schultz about the catholic priesthood today. >>> hello. welcome back to mosaic. with me is father george e schultz sj. sj stands for society of jesus. father schultz, i briefly know your background. it's a long one. you have a masters degree, phd, a b.a. before that. can you tell us where? >> i studied industrial revelations in cornell university in new york although i am from california. the masters in business administration was uc berkley. i was a full time student there. in usc, i studied social ethics at the university of california. that's my phd. >> and you authored a book. >> yes. >> you are a native of california. >> yes. i grew up in mountain view on the peninsula, native to the san francisco arch diocese. i went to public schools in mountain view, st. joseph parish, st. fran

there's a monastery in england that trains poor boys for the anglican priesthood.nderful place. it was a kindly, eccentric, mad place. these lovely old monks trained us. not very well, they weren't trained teachers. it deeply embedded itself in my psyche. but it was a strange disruption, from a random street in alexandria, to this big manner, some mansion house on the banks of the trent. you say in your book, leaving alexandria, the name of the town you grew up in, that you were looking for something called transcendence. what do you understand by that? i think we're all, to some extent, i think we human animals are very strange creatures. we're not comfortably embedded in nature, the way my wee dog is, or cows in the hills are, or kangaroos in the outback. we're conscious of ourselves, were aware of being strange creatures in a universe that doesn't explain itself, that doesn't offer an immediate manual of meaning. i think the human animal, therefore, hungers for meaning and purpose in an apparently meaningless and purposeless universe. so we're very divided, and

there is a monastery in england which trains poor boys for the anglican priesthood.s a wonderful place. a kindly, eccentric, mad place. these lovely old monks. they were not trained teachers. but it deeply embedded itself in my psyche. but it was a strange disruption. you say in your book, leaving alexandria, which is the name of the town you grew up in, that you were looking for something called transcendence. what do you mean by that? i think we are all very strange creatures. we are not embedded in nature, the way my wee dog is, or kangaroos in the outback. we are conscious of ourselves, aware of being strange creatures in a universe that does not explain itself, does not offer an immediate manualfor reading. i think the human animal therefore hungers for meaning, in an apparent meaningless world. we are very divided, and religion has traditionally been one of the ways in which the question has been answered. yes, there is a meaning and a purpose and you can give yourself to it. i'm no longer as comfortable with religious certainties, but i am still addicted to th