Go Dominicans! While some of them went a little overboard in the dread 70s and 80s, the order actually expelled some flakes from their midst (such as the infamous Fr. Fox, Gaia worshipper...) and has managed to hang onto enough good people and sanity that I think some of the Dominican groups have a good chance of coming back. Aside from the Nashville Dominicans, of course, who don’t have to come back because they never went anywhere. The only thing they need to do is find more money to build a larger convent, since they’re bursting at the seams with smart young women!
You mean Matthew Fox? I had forgotten he was a Dominican, but if I recall it took quite a bit of pressure from the Vatican for the order to finally take action against his heretical practices.
I met Fr. Fox before his excommunication, I was studying at the same college where he had his “Creation-Centered Spirituality” program. This is also the college where one of the 9/11 terrorists was registered for an English language program and never showed up for classes. Weird place for a seemingly innocuous, small, private Catholic college run by nuns.
The campus had a uniquely strange feeling because of the co-existence of these three programs, with many of these people living in close proximity in the dorms: (1) regular college kids, (2) middle-aged hippies in the Fox program (whom the college kids laughed at), (3) Mostly Saudis (who came to class in limousines) and Germans with a smattering of Latin Americans in the ESL program.
That was also my first up close and personal experience with Saudis, they were the slimiest, rudest, most arrogant people I ever met, and assumed they were entitled to sleep with any American girl.
Well, I’m digressing quite a bit from the topic here.....