Millennial nuns?

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Here is an interesting article on Huffpost.com. The title is “Behold the millennial nuns.” This author talks about young women discerning the religious life. She says there are more than should be expected given the rise of scandals. One woman’s description discerning the religious life, she explained, is “a process of falling in love.”
Is this happening in the priesthood?
Does this have anything to do with the number of states banning abortion?
https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/millennial-nuns/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
 
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Started reading the article and I’m enjoying it. But it’s long! I’ll have to save the rest for later. I’m surprised; I didn’t expect such a good article from Huffpost.
 
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It is long. It is strange. I hope it is true.
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It is long. It is strange. But it’s just another self-delusional traditionalist pipe dream based on anecdote, just-so-stories, logical fallacies, cherry picked “statistics” from low-quality sources, and lots and lots of wishful thinking.

I read it through the end with amusement. For someone who attended a math magnet high school, the author goes to great pains to avoid any semblance of meaningful statistical analysis.

I really don’t know what the purpose of the article is. It fails horribly as analysis. Not sure if it was meant to drum up interest in religious orders among millennials, but I don’t think it will persuade anyone. It’s a slog to read through, and there is very little red meat to whet the appetite and keep the reader interested. Even the anecdotes are not at all engaging.

My best guess is that it’s sort of exercise in “whistling in the dark”.

Sorry, but that’s my honest opinion.
 
A lengthy article, but interesting. I don’t know if it is predictive of the future or not. As noted, it’s mostly anecdotal. But it reminded me of something that happened in my former parish and diocese. There had been an annual retreat every year at the diocesan retreat center for men discerning the priesthood. It was not a commitment, just something to help them think about whether or not their future might lie in the seminary and priesthood.

A young woman at our parish thought there should be something like that for women trying to decide what to do with their lives. She organized a retreat at a rural parish for young women and invited some orders of fairly young sisters from different congregations to speak and to meet individually with the attendees. It was well received, and became an annual event. The diocesan retreat center asked her to move the venue to their facility, and so it continues.
 
It is odd to see this kind of article written by the Huffpost. They are primarily liberal as far as I know.
 
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It is odd to see this kind of article written by the Huffpost. They are primarily liberal as far as I know.
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The National Catholic Register would have been a better outlet. It would have attracted more readers there.
 
HuffPo has written several articles about young women joining religious orders. It’s a topic of interest to their audience, apparently.
 
We had a thread on this already.
 
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