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[Image: Santa Chiara monastery in Ravello, Italy]
An Italian monastery worth millions is another in a succession of religious houses being shut down by the Vatican for questionable reasons.
By Mary Cuff, Crisis Magazine, Feb. 14, 2023
Mary Cuff is an independent scholar, wife, and homeschooling mother. She holds a PhD in American literature from the Catholic University of America and has published in the Southern Literary Journal, Five Points, Mississippi Quarterly, and Modern Age. …
For more than seven hundred years, the Franciscan monastery of Santa Chiara has stood overlooking the glorious waters of the Amalfi Coast in the town of Ravello, the “city of music” and the “pearl of the Amalfi.” Poor Clares came to Ravello in 1297, just after the death of St. Francis, and the monastery and town have flourished together for almost a thousand years.Related posts
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