[OpusatFR]

I work in an organization with the best of the best. Whatever our denominations, and my supervisor is Bhuddist while I am a Traditional Catholic, we are all devoted to providing the best care for the people we help.

The whole issue is Respect for one another and for our differences. No one is out to make converts, but to give service.

I am pleased to see a new religious order forming. The Sisters under Mother Teresa's foundation are growing exponentially because of her philosophy toward life in all forms, and now this order is growing.

I hate to see the old orders fading as has happened to some Sisters I know under Franciscan rule, the youngest is 52, but the new revitalizes and puts the Church back on its path. It is exciting to see an awakening happening again as it has so many times in history.

[Cicero]

I occasionally send some money to the Dominican sisters in New Jersey. Most of them are basically on the point of death, and they have no younger sisters coming into the order to look after them, as was the traditional practice. All the younger ones must have run off and done something else with their lives, leaving the older sisters to die without help.

That has happened in many orders. You could say it's their own fault, but for the most part the older sisters are not the ones responsible for what happened. Very sad.

This happened many times over the centuries. You have a new Domincan order as mentioned in this post. You have the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal working in the South Bronx. Back in the Sixteenth century you had St. Teresa founding the Discalced Carmelites to renew or replace the older Carmelite orders that lost their way.

Sometimes an organization can't be renewed from within but must be replaced from without.