Tuesday, May 06, 2003

More thoughts on religious life/communities:

There are diocesan priests and religious order priests, so why not have this for nuns too? Some nuns might be called to religious life but not necessarily to community life. There should be diocesan nuns who work for and report to the bishop. Like Diocesan priests, these nuns would have more freedom, and work in more individual apostolates. This is already the situation-many nuns do not live or work in community anyway. Of course this would not mean everyone would turn orthodox overnight, but it would make an already existing situation official and perhaps open the door for women who are called to certain apostolates but not religious community.

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