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Article: Religious life is still alive, but far from the Promised Land: ten questions get to heart of what future might hold. (Religious Orders) (Cover Story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 18, 1994
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Ten questions get to heart of what future might hold
Someone once wrote, with disarming simplicity, "Those furthest from the seats of power are closest to the heart of things." The theory is about to be tested.
Next October a special synod of the church, made up almost entirely of bishops, occupiers of the seats of power, not women or men religious themselves, will pronounce on the purpose and nature of contemporary religious life. The synod is apparently meant to be some kind of capstone to the years of experiment and change spawned by Vatican II and its call to renewal. Time to neaten things up. No more nonsense.
The question is: What will ...