Word: monasticism
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He leaves behind a collection of egocentrics as outrageous as any in modern fiction, ranging from a scrofulous teen-aged novelist named Leo Piper to Billy Box, a softhearted symphony conductor who spends much of his time kidnaping animals from research laboratories. In the end, Ninian returns to Silverwood, but...
In July 1209, an army of crusaders marched down from northern France into Languedoc and besieged the city of éeziers. When the city fathers refused to hand over 222 Cathari heretics, the crusaders broke in and massacred every man, woman and child-priests included-of Béziers'...
From New York to California, dozens of communities of monks, nuns and brothers have found that the best way to support themselves and their works is to become enterprising entrepreneurs. Though they have no desire for riches, the religious communities have installed mass-production factories, are turning out cheese, wine...
A Saint for Jelly? Among the religious entrepreneurs, the widest ranging are the Trappists, who are bound to manual labor by their monastic rule, do all of their own work, and communicate only in sign language. The 200 monks at Massachusetts' St. Joseph's Abbey decided to go...
Twilight of a Virger. The present undergraduates, Novelist Sheed deposes, are a dim lot, meanly concerned with security and job worthiness, impervious to general ideas, irreligious but without any definite atheist convictions, leading a sex life that is Casanovanic in theory but monastic in fact, boorishly bathed in beer, sweating...