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By T. O'Donoghue
O'Donoghue's booklet, that is written as a standard old narrative, whereas additionally using a comparative method, is worried with the lifetime of Catholic spiritual instructing brothers around the English-speaking global, particularly for the interval 1891 to 1965, which used to be the heyday of the non secular orders.
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Most of the population accepted the arrangement, but some, most notably the Catholics, did not. Over the next 100 years, the Catholic Church in New Zealand was very much an Irish church69 as the number of Irish immigrants had soared in the 1860s, largely as a result of the discovery of gold in the Otago region. Parish schools were founded by the local diocesan clergy, and the religious orders also established their own schools. Between 1900 and 1950, the number of Catholic schools in New Zealand increased from 132 to 240, and enrolments increased from 10,687 to 30,504.
28 Furthermore, by 1995, the number of nuns in the United States had dropped to 92,107, brothers to 6,578, and seminarians to 5,083. The overall decline in the number of religious in the United States represented a significant turning point in the history of Catholic education in that country. 29 Parish schools were established under the leadership of John Carroll, who, in 1790, became the first bishop in the United States. By the end of his episcopacy in 1815, educational provision for Catholics had significantly expanded in the east coast states.
The meanings attached to this vow have varied much more over the centuries than have the meanings attached to the vow of chastity. For most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it meant that members were required to surrender their property to their religious order on entering the cloister and were not allowed to use, or lend, property without permission. In many orders, sets of associated practices, which were codified in minute detail, were outlined. They included such requirements as asking permission to use a pencil, or a piece of stationery.