The British Catholic journal The Tablet carried a story on August 3, 2013 that I found suggestive (although its topic is not terribly interesting in itself). The story reports on the surprising growth in England of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Oratory. This is not a monastic order but a community of secular priests, who live together in residences while working outside in a variety of ministries. The Oratory (which has branches in several countries) has just taken over the parish of St. Wilfrid’s, “the mother church of Catholicism in York”....