Sorry Sam, The lay orders, convents, and the priesthood -- none of then are communistic in concept or day-to-day operation. The control is strict, from the top down, and it is dead wrong to equate poverty, or self-deprivation with communism.
==== On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:52:33 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:06:28 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: >> Bart, >> Before you accuse others of applying labels to you, and particularly >> before you apply your own labels, it would help if you knew what they >> meant. >> The only purely communist society to have survived was started here in >> the USA. Communism has little to do with politics and everything to do > Don't forget the Benedictines and other religious orders who take > vows of poverty. > Also the Buddhist Theravada Sangha dating back to around 550 BCE > and still existing in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
