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Increasing numbers of evangelical congregations have struck up friendships with Catholic monasteries, sending church members to join the monks for spiritual retreats. St. John's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Minnesota, now makes a point of including interested evangelicals in its summer Monastic Institute.
2 posted on 02/04/2008 6:00:44 AM PST by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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"There is now a growing movement..."

I don't consider a handful of people trying a new fad to be a "growing movement".

12 posted on 02/04/2008 9:37:15 AM PST by joebuck
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