Monday, May 06, 2013

In the Spirit: Holy Wisdom Monastery now off-limits to Catholic priests

In the Spirit: Holy Wisdom Monastery now off-limits to Catholic priests : Wsj

"Bishop Robert Morlino is continuing to put more distance between the Madison Catholic Diocese and Holy Wisdom Monastery, a former Catholic monastery on the outskirts of Madison that is now a non-Catholic ecumenical retreat center.

In the latest development, Morlino is now prohibiting priests in the diocese from “attendance or participation at all events held at Holy Wisdom Monastery and all events sponsored or co-sponsored by Holy Wisdom Monastery or the Benedictine Women of Madison,” according to a March 7 letter to priests leaked to the State Journal.

Read the latest on this place from the Wisconsin State Journal.

For much more background and detail see Laetificat:  The problem with Holy Wisdom Monastery 

This is one of many examples of religious communities dwindling down and exiting the Church.  It is a sad result of the loss of orthodoxy within the Church. 

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