Word: carthusian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except for the scattered handful of Carthusian houses, all Latin-rite monasteries in the world follow-with varying degrees of severity-the rule of conduct that St. Benedict of Nursia wrote down in 529 for his community of cenobites at Monte Cassino in Italy. Although faithful to this spirit, U.S. monasteries have nonetheless made some striking adaptations of Benedictine life to suit American ways. More active and outgoing than their European counterparts, U.S. monasteries operate everything from mailorder cheese businesses to country missions to diocesan seminaries; each Sunday their monks say Mass in hundreds of U.S. churches. "The fundamental difference...