There is at least one glaring inaccuracy, but considering the source, this is a pretty fair piece.
1 posted on
10/15/2008 7:26:21 AM PDT by
ELS
To: ELS
Monasticism? Well, it's not hard to get tired of this world, these days. If Obama gets elected, I may retreat to a monastery myself. Might as well. I won't be able to afford my house.
2 posted on
10/15/2008 7:29:24 AM PDT by
MrChips
(MrChips)
To: ELS
It’s not exactly in the Ozarks, for one thing.
3 posted on
10/15/2008 7:39:01 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(After 5:00 p.m., slip brains through slot in door.)
To: ELS
In the middle of the 20th century, when the average Catholic family had four or five kids and many had ten or more, parents had no problem with one or two of their children entering the religious or monastic life.
Their other children would get married and have the grandkids.
But with the advent of mass contraception and the precious decade that the Church lost in fighting it, the average Catholic family now has two or three children and many have one.
Contraception killed vocations.
4 posted on
10/15/2008 7:50:21 AM PDT by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: ELS
I so want to go visit the Clear Creek Monastery. I've have a couple of friends from church who've been--one family with 6 children (their oldest daughter is becoming a Carmelite nun) go there regularly.
And you're right! I couldn't believe it when I looked at the source!
6 posted on
10/15/2008 7:58:58 AM PDT by
GOP_Thug_Mom
(libera nos a malo)
To: ELS
There is another monastery just getting started in Wyoming, the
Carmelite Monks.
7 posted on
10/15/2008 8:45:02 AM PDT by
Titanites
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