The Coronavirus and Religious Life
Back in ‘old god’s time’ in the nineteen nineties, I wrote a book about Religious Life, predicting that convents and monasteries as we knew them then were coming towards the end of their particular era. In other words, that the form of religious life that we have seen prosper in Ireland in the past two centuries appeared to me to be in serious decline, and maybe even facing extinction.
Events since then have confirmed my assessment, indeed to a degree and with a rapidity that I would not have thought possible back then.
