NEW DELHI, Sept. 6 -- Recently I was invited by a group of nuns to facilitate the review of Human Resource Policy for the employees of their institutions. It was an occasion for me to reflect on the human resource development of priests and nuns in the Catholic Church and the best use of their human resources.
My formation as a religious priest took 13 years. Out of the 13 years, five years were meant for graduation and pre-degree course and the remaining 8 years were devoted to religious and priestly formation. Later I went for post graduation. Thus my total training period was 15 years after passing the 10th class. Some of my batch mates took three to five years more to do a PhD. For them, the total training period was 18 to 20 years. I...