Word: weakland
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...some striking adaptations of Benedictine life to 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...