Despite my username I was raised in about the most Trad of all TradCath households you can imagine. AMA. Save me from being #14 in line at this cursed job audition

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I think my impression of their poverty amd heavily cloistered exisistence is coloured by 16th Century accounts of their lives like in Galileo's Daughter.

    From what I hear the modern order is far less harsh and their commitment to the Franciscan rule is admirable.

    • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, in my experience at least they've been pretty chill. My aunt was childhood friends with a woman who became a Clare and she'd bring me along for visits to the convent as a kid; they always were kind to me even after I came out.

      I mean as a whole they probably had the same reactionary tendencies that you see in a lot of Church organizations, but I did appreciate that they were nicer to me than my own folks were sometimes.