Category Archives: 2. Commitment to a cause

2. Commitment to a cause

Committed people make history. The second characteristic of dynamic movements in mp3 format. Commitment to the cause. Movements

Nothing new

The great Christian revolutions come not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was already there. Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962) Source

I’ll fight

While women weep as they do now, I’ll fight. While little children go hungry as they do now, I’ll fight. While men go to prison in and out in and out, I’ll fight. While there yet remains one dark soul without the light of God, I’ll fight. I’ll fight to the very end. General William [...]

Reappearing nuns

Despite the devastation of the last thirty or more years (see “Disappearing nuns”), there are some signs of renewal and hope for religious orders. Those signs are evident among the newer orders that have remained true to their spiritual tradition and are still making the traditional demands of religious life. Those orders are successfully recruiting [...]

Disappearing nuns

For over fifteen hundred years, religious orders have been the driving force in the renewal and mission of the Catholic Church. Throughout their history, the orders have sought to maintain high levels of commitment to their cause. That began to change in the 1960’s when the orders sought to enter the modern age following the [...]