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Article: Celibacy explored Buddhist and Catholic monks share perspectives.(CHURCH)
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- Catholic New Times
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- November 26, 2006
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The electronic sign at the Minneapolis-St Paul airport was flashing "Orange Alert" as a dozen Buddhist monks arrived in their burnt orange robes from around the country for three days of dialogue on celibacy with a similar number of Catholic monks who had come together from various monasteries at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minn.
As he opened the October meeting, Rev. William Skudlarek, Executive Director of Monastic Inter-religious Dialogue (MID), said, "You (Buddhists) have been at this for some five-to-seven hundred years longer than we have. We have something to learn."
This was the second Monks in the West inter-religious dialogue; the first ...