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Agreed. It's also highly unusual to refer to them by the full "Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance" rather than their much more common and well-known
by smeej 6y ago
Agreed. It's also highly unusual to refer to them by the full "Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance" rather than their much more common and well-known name, "Trappists."
It makes the whole article sound like it was written by someone who cares a lot about clothing and very little for the people who wear it and their reasons.
- unknown_apostle 6y agoYes it's on a website on fashion, not a site focused on Christian spirituality :-) In the text of the interview, it doesn't say "broke away from the Catholic Church" but "from the Catholic rule". Which is also a confusing phrasing in itself and probably the source of the error found in the abstract.
- cafard 5y agoThey would have said that they returned to the Rule of St. Benedict in its full rigor, no?
- vmilner 5y agoHaving spent a fair bit of time with them I think "Cistercians" is the term they prefer, at least in England, though the full OCSO is a bit of a mouthful.