while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled. The Encyclical of Pope Paul VI pointed out the difference, so often emphasized today, between “having” and “being,”51 which had been expressed earlier in precise words by the Second Vatican Council.52 To “have” objects and goods does not in itself perfect the human subject, unless it contributes to the maturing and enrichment of that subject’s “being,” that is to say unless it contributes to the realization of the human vocation