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The story was written by Douglas Auchincloss and edited by Henry Grunwald, both of whom worked on last year's cover stories on the Archbishop of Canterbury and Evangelist Billy Graham. Laborare Est Orare is illustrated with color portraits of other women who have entered the monastic life. Here...
Such reports, and hundreds of others, flow every week into an uncarpeted, buff-walled office overlooking the Hudson River, 32 miles north of the George Washington Bridge. At her plain desk a kindly looking woman with china-blue eyes and a no-nonsense way of handling paperwork sifts the reports...
The Boom. The Maryknoll success story typifies but does not tell the whole story of monastic life in mid-20th century. From the time (circa 530) that a young Italian nobleman, Benedict of Nursia, smashed the statue of Apollo on Monte Cassino and founded his famed abbey, the monastery has...
In the U.S. the monastic boom is strongest. The number of women in religious orders in the U.S. today is 154,055, up more than three times from the year 1900. There are also 25,431 men (not counting diocesan priests) in orders, twice as many as in 1900.
Monastic Incantations. Less flashy but perhaps more significant than Tito's arrival in India was U Nu's departure from Red China. The gentle-tongued but hard-minded Burmese Premier had spent 16 days subtly drawing distinctions about Burma's noninvolvement in the cold war. He was...