{"id":34280,"date":"2017-01-27T15:32:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T20:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=34280"},"modified":"2017-02-14T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T21:35:08","slug":"new-camaldoli-hermitage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2017\/01\/27\/new-camaldoli-hermitage\/34280\/","title":{"rendered":"New Camaldoli Hermitage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the number of monks and nuns has declined in recent years, there has been a large increase in the number of lay people who want to associate with religious communities and their approach to spiritual life. Correspondent Kate Olson visited the New Camaldoli Hermitage, a Benedictine monastery\u00a0in Big Sur, California, where today there are 24 monks but\u00a0700 oblates, people who live in the world and\u00a0affiliate with the monastery community, following a rule that guides monastic life. \u201cWe\u2019re going back to where it all began,\u201d says Fr. Columba Stewart, a scholar of monasticism and a Benedictine monk at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintjohnsabbey.org\/\">St. John\u2019s Abbey<\/a> in Collegeville, Minnesota, \u201cwith a variety of models of Christian ascetic life, and by ascetic I just mean disciplined. That\u2019s what people are discovering, and they\u2019re figuring out ways they can live as individuals, as families, as loose associations of friends who find this particular path to be helpful, sustaining, and nourishing to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Support for this story provided by George Family Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going back to where it all began,\u201d says Fr. Columba Stewart, a scholar of monasticism and a Benedictine monk at St. John\u2019s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, \u201cwith a variety of models of Christian ascetic life, and by ascetic I just mean disciplined. That\u2019s what people are discovering, and they\u2019re figuring out ways they can live as individuals, as families, as loose associations of friends who find this particular path to be helpful, sustaining, and nourishing to them.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2017\/01\/27\/new-camaldoli-hermitage\/34280\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":34375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-culture-and-society","topics-faith-and-spirituality","faith-catholic","faith-christian"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Camaldoli Hermitage | January 27, 2017 | Religion &amp; 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