Reviving monasticism - Catholic Review

Reviving monasticism - Catholic Review

Praying for vocations usually means praying for more priests. That’s a good and necessary effort, of course, because without priests, there is no Eucharist. But there’s another vocation that may be even more endangered. And what’s been happening in the church — and in our culture — over the past few decades should prompt us to ask what should be a dismaying question: Is monasticism disappearing from the Catholic Church? Sure, most things run the…