Can non-Catholic Christian monastics live in a Catholic monastic community

[Episcopalian]

Do Catholic monasteries and convents allow for non-Catholic Christian monastics to live alongside their Catholic brothers/sisters?

Im just thinking since monastic life outside of Catholicism isn’t super popular, although it’s known, would an Anglican Dominican nun be allowed to live in a Catholic Dominican community?

I experienced it only when all but two sisters in an Anglo-Catholic convent converted to Roman Catholic so the two Anglicans were sort of “grandfathered into” living at the now Catholic convent.

 

[nunsuch]

First, Catholics are of course Christian, so I think you mean non-Catholic Christians? [And the two Anglican sisters you refer to were more likely grandmothered, rather than grandfathered, into the new community–but almost certainly not as members).

In some communities, the answer is yes. Taize, for instance, has both Catholic and non-Catholic members. There are some Ecumenical monasteries (Holy Wisdom outside Madison, Wisconsin, is one). Many Benedictine Monasteries allow for non-Catholic Oblates–one of the most famous is the author, Kathleen Norris. Some Communities with Associates welcome non-Catholics to be Associates. I think it would very much depend on the congregation. But it is unlikely that a strictly Catholic religious order would allow for vowed members who were not also Catholic.

 

[Episcopalian]

Thank you nunsuch! I’ll try to fix my post.

And thank you for the insight too! I went on Holy Wisdom’s site to check it out. Very very cool!

I love that one of their sisters doubles as a Presbyterian minister!