Word: monasticism
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While China suffered its worst floods in a century (TIME, Aug. 16), its satellite, Tibet, was suffering too. At the monastic trade center of Shigatse (pop. 20,000), second-biggest city in Tibet, midsummer torrents had turned the Nyang Chu River into a foaming cataract. Lake Takri Tsoma overflowed and...
St. Benedict was the spiritual founder of all monasteries. On the summit of Italy's Monte Cassino, 14 centuries ago, where pagans had raised a shrine to Apollo. Benedict gathered around him a group of fellow Roman Catholics to withdraw from the world and yet be a part of...
The Soft Touch. That is what Abbé Pierre has been trying to do for a long time. The fifth of eight children of a wealthy Lyons silk manufacturer, Henri Antoine Grouès at 18 signed his inheritance over to charity and entered a Capuchin monastery. Eight years later...
At Milan's Catholic University, where he studied, Amintore at 24 was hired to teach economics. He wrote 16 books on economics and politics, and with some other faculty colleagues formed a semi-monastic political group which came to be known as "the little professors." Intense in their Catholicism...
It was Mary's-and England's-tragedy, concludes Biographer Prescott, that no such simple graciousness was workable. The England she had imagined in her semi-exile in no way resembled the England she came to rule. What Mary called the "new" religion was already "old" to many...