[ebb tide]

The most significant change the instruction puts forth is the obligation for individual monasteries, though autonomous, to belong to a federation of monasteries, connected either through a similar charism or through geographical location.

The new norm gives monasteries one year to comply, after which time the Vatican’s office for religious life will assign monasteries to federations.

So much for remaining "autonomous". Ask the Knights of Malta and their Dictator Pope about that.

[reg45]

Kinda like the cigar chomping union representative asking you to sign a card. The next thing you know, they will be asking for union dues from the nuns.

[Slyfox]

The last time monasteries were messed with on a huge scale, in England because of Henry VIII, they all got destroyed.