Word: monasticism
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Such charges stem from MacLeod's role in creating one of the century's most influential experiments in Christian living, the lona Community. In 1938, he gave up his parish ministry in a Glasgow slum and with a group of sympathetic clerics and unemployed workers went to the...
In a candid volume of confessions called Dialogues with Christ, recently j published in Paris, Lemercier tells of the I Cuernavaca experiment. A Belgian, I Lemercier went to Mexico in 1944, intending to found a monastery with two other men. Both his companions quit, disillusioned with monastic life; in 1949...
The experiment in group therapy was approved by Cuernavaca's Bishop Sergio Méndez Arceo. Alarmed by Lemercier's innovation, the Vatican sent several investigators to Cuernavaca, and last year Lemercier went to Rome to explain the results to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...
Fonder Memories. Top of the list for most camera-toting visitors is a version of the famous Brussels marble Manneken-Pis fountain statue and the spectacular 104-ft.-long Neptune Pool, kept a constant 70° while Hearst lived. The pool was last used as a set for Spartacus, and...
But I was still skeptical. What was the escape from the rat race Krishnamurti described? A retreat from the cold outside to an equally barren monastic existence?