What drives Catholic priests to continue to serve people? That is the main question behind this psychological study. Based on a working model of compassionate love (Underwood 2008), the priestly compassionate love model was tested to determine whether spirituality, social support, priestly commitment, and well-being simultaneously influence compassionate love, which in turn brings out a positive affect in those doing pastoral ministry. The participants were 256 Catholic priests in Indonesia. Using structural equation modeling, the results of the study showed a good fit. Spirituality was the factor that contributed most strongly to compassionate love. Receiving adequate support from multiple sources motivated the priests to love others. Moreover, priestly commitment also influenced the priests to love others compassionately. Although well-being did not significantly influence compassionate love, it still played an important role in the model because it was correlated with all factors. Finally, the results showed that compassionate love powerfully influenced the priests to be enthusiastic and eager in doing pastoral ministry. These findings are discussed theoretically and practically in the context of priestly life and ministry in Indonesia.
Wisdom is defined in a variety of meanings in accordance with the times. Understanding wisdom originated from philosophical approaches. After these philosophical views, wisdom is understood in the psychology context. Wisdom has received increasing attention in empirical research in recent years, especially in gerontology and psychology. Wisdom generally is associated with older people. Modern empirical research has no significant reason to believe that wisdom is solely owned by older people. Wisdom is not a result of aging per se, but rather, only those older people who use their lifetime experiences optimally tend to acquire wisdom with aging. In this paper, wisdom is defined as human’s multidimensional abilities which can be learned and measured, and increases with age through advanced cognitive and emotional development which is driven by experience. Multidimensionality of wisdom (e.g. practical, reflective, openness interactional, paradoxical, ethical sensibility and experience) shows that wisdom is not always related with older age, but refers to the individual’s abilities to reason carefully; to reminisce and reflect; to tolerate with alternative views; and to regulate own emotional and expressions). The definitions lead to the implication that family and seminary formation have chance to develop the wisdom as human’s multidimensional abilities.
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