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To: A CA Guy; Salvation

It's also interesting, and I don't have any specifics, but I've read that the area where there are more young priests is Religious Orders, not Diocesan priests....and that some of the newer orders are attracting very dedicated young orthodox men, whereas the Jesuits, Benedictines, Dominicans, etc are shrinking. Not sure how true that is, but as many of the older orders (for women too, especially the Benedictines) have become more "liberal" and less true to the Church. The experimentalism that attracted young people decades ago now seems to repel them....???


7 posted on 08/10/2006 7:59:56 PM PDT by baa39 (Quid hoc ad aeternitatem?)
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I would agree with you on most of the Jesuits, most of the Holy Cross, some of the Benedictines, some of the Franciscans in the U. S.

I am not acquaninted with anyone in a Dominican order.

The Brown and Black robed Franciscans that we came across in Poland, on the other hand, seemed very traditional and holy in all they did. You could see it in their mannerisms even among tourists.


9 posted on 08/10/2006 11:36:30 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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