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The monasteries, being landowners who never died and whose property was therefore never divided among inheritors (as happened to the land of neighboring secular land owners), tended to accumulate and keep considerable lands and properties - which aroused resentment and made them vulnerable to governments confiscating their properties at times of religious or political upheaval, whether to fund ...
In the early 10th century, Western monasticism, which had flourished several centuries earlier with St Benedict of Nursia, was experiencing a severe decline due to unstable political and social conditions resulting from the nearly continuous Viking raids, widespread poverty and, especially, the dependence of abbeys on the local nobles who controlled all that belonged to the territories under ...
This page lists religious institutes of the Catholic Church that are now defunct.This refers to institutes that have merged, been suppressed, disbanded or died out.. Merged refers to institutes who have either formed a new institute with another group, or joined another institute altogether.
Just 47 percent of Americans say they are members of a church, synagogue, mosque or other house of worship — the lowest rate in more than 80 years.
Paul Prather: Churchgoers, like their secular neighbors, find themselves restless, confused, weary, politically and racially ulcerated — blown here and there by every wind.
Monastery death (German: Klostertod; French: mort civile des religieux) [1] was a form of civil death – the loss of legal capacity of living persons – known to common and civil law. The monastery death happened in some jurisdictions when a person entered a monastery or nunnery and professed into consecrated life.
Despite the decline in commercial areas, he noted that residents have reportedly been pushing their local government to create more parks among other government-created community spaces with the ...
Forced monasticism is the practice of compelling a person to enter a monastic life without their consent. Historically, it was practiced within Christendom in some places during the Middle Ages as a way to neutralize political rivals.