From the days of the early Church, Catholicism has always emphasized stability as a means of holiness, particularly for monastics and the clergy. In the first chapter of the sixth-century Rule of St. Benedict, the holy father of Western monasticism warns of the danger of physical instability. He warns of a certain type of monk, those who are constantly uprooting and moving, “who spend their entire…
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