Empty novitiates and ageing communities have driven some institutes towards marketing, while others retreat into inertia. Yet the future of consecrated life does not depend on numbers, but on fidelity to Christ—even when that fidelity leads through decline.
When Religious Life Mistakes Recruitment for Renewal
Empty novitiates and ageing communities have driven some institutes towards marketing, while others retreat into inertia. Yet the future of consecrated life does not depend on numbers, but on fidelity to Christ—even when that fidelity leads through decline.
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