Article: Brothers of Peace pray, serve.(Religious Life)

The decline in religious community membership is old news. There is no indication this decades-old trend will reverse. The surprising news amid this slump is that new communities are sprouting, sometimes serendipitously, in response to signs of the times.

One sturdy young community of religious brothers is developing in the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese, where the Franciscan Brothers of Peace have 12 members, six of whom have professed lifetime vows. They have three houses: Queen of Peace Friary/Novitiate in a 22-bedroom former convent in St. Paul; Samaritan House, a hospice in south Minneapolis where three brothers care for AIDS patients; and St. Francis ...

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