Word: archabbey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Non-Christian Religions and similar brotherly statements by the World Council of Churches, Christian leaders are eager to bring Judaism into interfaith explorations. Last year one such friendly dialogue, involving 26 Catholic and Jewish scholars, took place at St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa. Lutherans have held four theological discussions with Jewish scholars at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. Harvard Divinity School is planning a symposium in October on Jewish- Christian dialogue for its 150th anniversary this year...
...solemn ceremonies of installing abbots are likely to be used more and more in the nation's future. Monasteries are relative latecomers to the institutional life of the Catholic Church in the U.S.; the first Benedictine monastery, St. Vincent's Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa., is only 115 years old. But now they are bursting with new vitality-and new affluence. In all, there are more than 2,000 American Benedictines, almost one-sixth of the worldwide strength of that order, which is far and away the leading branch of Christian monasticism. The non-Benedictine Trappists have established eight...
...suit American ways. More active and outgoing than their European counterparts, U.S. monasteries operate everything from mailorder cheese businesses to country missions to diocesan seminaries; each Sunday their monks say Mass in hundreds of U.S. churches. "The fundamental difference," says Father Rembert Weakland of St. Vincent's Archabbey, "is that in Europe the people go to the monastery. In the U.S. the monastery goes out to the people...