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A crisis of soul for religious life; the church is being placed where it is needed--with the poor, the outcast, the needy.(Critical Essay)

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From: Catholic New Times
Date: 20021006
Author:Rolheiser, Ronald

I won't attempt to be programmatic or "practical" in terms of strategy for vocations, but I will highlight how important it is communally to name--religiously--the present moment we are living in; to try to name the moment in three different sets of images: cultural, ecclesial, and biblical, and then to suggest what we need to do vis-a-vis vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

Franciscan Richard Rohr says, "Not everything can be fixed or cured, but it should be named properly." Kathleen Norris tells a story about the Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova, standing in the long ...

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