Dowd's nun column is proven wrong by flourishing religious orders, commentator says
I know of orders of religious that have waiting lists for entrants. I know of others that are drying up and dying. I think that if an Order loses its focus on the charism of the Order and its founder it no longer is what it was created to do. It has outlived it's service. If we, as Franciscans, lost our focus on St. Francis' charism to rebuild the Church and to serve the most lost of our society with our own spiritual wealth as well as temporal goods, then we are no longer Franciscans. The charism at the founding of the order must be our charism today if we are to be faithful to our founder and our professed promises and vows, no matter what we actually do while being faithful to them...
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