"There is an acceleration in the closures of monasteries": an unprecedented study takes stock of the situation for France
The contemplative monastic landscape of France is going through profound changes. According to a study by sociologist Isabelle Jonveaux, about 30 percent of monasteries have been closed in the last 20 years. Women's contemplative ranks are particularly affected, the French magazine „La Vie“ reports. While 32 percent of female regular monasteries are already closed, that figure for male monasteries is 21 percent.
According to this study of Carmelite, clarise and trappy suffered particularly heavy losses. Within two decades, approximately one-third to 40 percent of the monasteries of these communities disappeared. The monastery of the Dominicans and Benedictines, for example, were less affected.
French sociology also notes the new acceleration of the closure of contemplative monasteries. While by about 2015 there were usually less than four closures a year, there are now an average of about ten. France has a particularly large number of these monasteries, often extremely long history, which, given the decline in the number of vocations, can no longer be maintained, explained the sociology of Isabelle Jonveaux.
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The contemplative monastic landscape of France is going through profound changes. According to a study by sociologist Isabelle Jonveaux, about 30 percent of monasteries have been closed in the last 20 years. Women's contemplative ranks are particularly affected, the French magazine „La Vie“ reports. While 32 percent of female regular monasteries are already closed, that figure for male monasteries is 21 percent.
According to this study of Carmelite, clarise and trappy suffered particularly heavy losses. Within two decades, approximately one-third to 40 percent of the monasteries of these communities disappeared. The monastery of the Dominicans and Benedictines, for example, were less affected.
French sociology also notes the new acceleration of the closure of contemplative monasteries. While by about 2015 there were usually less than four closures a year, there are now an average of about ten. France has a particularly large number of these monasteries, often extremely long history, which, given the decline in the number of vocations, can no longer be maintained, explained the sociology of Isabelle Jonveaux.
https://thecatholicherald.com/article/th...defy-trend
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
