'Benedictine Life: A Vision Unfolding' focuses on the next 100 years
Conventional wisdom would have it that monastic life is a hopeless throwback to the past — a case of "let the last monk or sister standing t...
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Conventional wisdom would have it that monastic life is a hopeless throwback to the past — a case of "let the last monk or sister standing t...
Monastic traditions -- including stability, silence, community, hospitality, love of learning and continual growth -- are becoming attractive especially to non-religious Millennials.
When Judith Valente, a Benedictine oblate, leads contemplative retreats both online and in monasteries around the country, she has been noticing that laypeople -- whether Catholic or spiritual-but-not-religious, married or unmarried, male or female -- outnumber the monks and sisters about three to one.