Benedictine Abbot Christopher Jamison on obedience, synodality and future of the Church

In brief

Christopher Jamison, a Benedictine monk of 53 years and the recently retired Abbot President of the English Benedictine Congregation, discussed the relationship between monastic life and the modern world.

Jamison served as Abbot President for nine years. He suggested that the perceived detachment of monks from worldly chaos actually allows them to understand that chaos more clearly.