church and Mission: Quick Reflection from Class on 11/4/09

Last class we started discussing the Roman Catholic Church. I went to a Catholic high school, so I'm rather excited to discuss this more. We talked a bit about how monsticism was a societal critique, but we really didn't talk much about it and I would really like to get more in depth about monastic traditions like the Jesuits, Fransicans, Dominicans and Benedictine's, their emphases on things like serving the poor or education and how we can learn from them and implement their ideas in new ways in our context.