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Early campaigns for financial reorganization gave way to ambitious attempts to secularize the inhabitants of monastic houses on a scale unseen in any other national church—with dramatic social as well as economic consequences.
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Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
Benedictines sympathize with the first two groups but tend to be more pessimistic about the prospects for national political or top-down solutions while the culture continues to secularize.
—Damon Linker, The Week, 13 July 2021
In the 1920s, the Mexican government’s attempt to secularize the country sparks a rebellion known as the Cristero War.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
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Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
Benedictines sympathize with the first two groups but tend to be more pessimistic about the prospects for national political or top-down solutions while the culture continues to secularize.
—Damon Linker, The Week, 13 July 2021
In the 1920s, the Mexican government’s attempt to secularize the country sparks a rebellion known as the Cristero War.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
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