Recent news stories highlighting a growing trend among single women to form intentional communities along spiritual or religious lines make one wonder: Are we seeing the rise of a third wave of the Beguines, a Catholic women’s movement that started in the late twelfth century? “There [are] many parallels between the Beguines then and women now—women building safety nets t (...)
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A NEW BEGINNING FOR THE BEGUINES?
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