Monastic traditions including stability, silence, community, hospitality, love of learning and continual growth are becoming attractive especially to non-religious Millennials.
When Judith Valente, a Benedictine oblate, leads contemplative retreats both online and in monasteries around the country, she has been noticing that laypeople whether Catholic or spiritual-but-not-religious, married or unmarried, male or female outnumber the monks and sisters about three to one.