Ann Thomas is a writer and editor living in Iowa City, Iowa. Her writing has appeared in Plough and Arts Midwest, and is forthcoming through Public News Service. She serves as managing editor of Dappled Things, a quarterly journal of ideas, art and faith.
A direct challenge for any religious order is vocations, and this will be one of the trials faced by the Norwegian Trappist communities: a very small community of Catholics in Norway from which vocations could flourish.
