Is there a relation? Convents close and are sold at liquidation value/value of the land for quick cash.
And then? Then, posh one and two bedroom condos are speedily constructed. Today it's all about "luxury" condos.
Is this because we have no more kids? And do we ever ask ourselves what is our cultural relation to contraception, sterilization and abortion?
And where are we now? And where are we headed?
See here how it works as seen in the photo: http://www.ashcroft-homes-blog.com/.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/contraception-a-clear-factor-in-decline-of-church-numbers-michigan-bishop
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ReplyDeleteIt's because of the Novus Ordo.
ReplyDeleteTo paraphrase Cato the Elder;
Novus Ordo delenda est.
No, it's not about abortion and contraception and families not having enough children. Why must uber-pro-lifers' blame everything on abortion or contraception?
ReplyDeleteConvents and monasteries and seminaries and parishes are closing for one reason and one only. The loss of Faith that was precipitated by the liberal reforms of Vatican II which were a complete rupture from Catholic tradition of the past (especially with regards to the Mass, liturgy, liturgical traditions, and also by extension the religious life, seminary formation, parishes, etc. The reforms themselves, and the radical abuses which were tolerated to the point that they became standard practice (Communion in the Hand and standing, Communion under both forms, altars facing the people, Mass facing the people Protestant style, habitless nuns, radical femminist dissident nuns and priests etc.etc.
These are the causes for the disappearance of vocations, aged, shrunken religious Orders of nuns, priests,monks, etc. Not abortion or contraception.
Proof of this is that the handful of USA Orders of nuns which still wear the traditional old-fashioned habits, and those similiar communities in Europe and elsewhere have adequate or sometimes even abundant vocations....but still nowhere near the magnificent days for the Church all through the 1950's.
It's an easy answer to blame the decline of vocations on abortion, but a violation of valid judgement really. Look deeper. Look at when the crisis started. 1965. Right when Vatican II ended and started to be implemented.
The more the Catholic Church and religious Orders stepped away from Catholic tradition and liberalized, the greater the crisis and the declines became.
A tiny modification in an Order of nuns in 1964-65 because a bigger change in 1968, another in 1972, and another by 1978 so that in the end, we have the dying Orders of today.
That's the reason. Don't search for anything else!
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