Keeping the sisterhood from extinction: The struggle to save nuns in America
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It’s an image woven into America’s cultural fabric: Catholic nuns, heads bowed in deep devotion, reciting prayers and lighting candles. But these days, the nuns’ time-honored pledges of service, chastity, poverty, and obedience seem far removed from the current orbit in which we live – igniting a vocal push to save nuns across the nation. For years, the number of women donning habits and dedicating their lives to the Lord has been declining, raising fears that the several hundred orders of nuns are not only endangered but teetering on the edge of extinction.
Keeping the sisterhood from extinction: The struggle to save nuns in America
Keeping the sisterhood from extinction: The…
Keeping the sisterhood from extinction: The struggle to save nuns in America
It’s an image woven into America’s cultural fabric: Catholic nuns, heads bowed in deep devotion, reciting prayers and lighting candles. But these days, the nuns’ time-honored pledges of service, chastity, poverty, and obedience seem far removed from the current orbit in which we live – igniting a vocal push to save nuns across the nation. For years, the number of women donning habits and dedicating their lives to the Lord has been declining, raising fears that the several hundred orders of nuns are not only endangered but teetering on the edge of extinction.