Number of British women becoming nuns hits 25-year high

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Cool news out of the UK. 👍
In 2014, 45 women took holy vows, a figure that has trebled in the last five years, in contrast to a worldwide trend that has seen nuns dwindle steadily over the last four decades.
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“There is a gap in the market for meaning in our culture and one of the ways in which women may find that meaning is through religious life,” said Father Christopher Jamison, director of the vocations office of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.
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Praying that it trebles again in the next five years.
God bless all those women.
 
Great news. Hope it keeps going up!

Anyone know the make up of the orders they are part of? Are they more traditional orders?
 
Seems as if establishment Churches always end up getting flabby.
 
Hmmm… I wonder how much of this increase is due to the large numbers of Polish Catholics who have come to the UK in recent years. But first - scold time!!! This is a report from the Church in England and Wales. Scotland has its own Hierarchy. Northern Ireland is part of the Irish Heirarchy.Don’t mix up England with the UK - it just causes a lot of blood boiling for the rest of us! LOL. Back to the main point. 45 is a tiny amount for a church who claim 4 million adherents and although it is a welcome increase, I should imagine that the amount of nuns dying or leaving holy orders vastly outweighs this number
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Here’s a story of one British woman becoming a nun
Who’d be a nun? Behind the statistics announced this week, which show that the number of women entering religious life is at a 25-year high, are the stories of 45 real women making the choice to become a nun or sister. I made that decision last year, and this January I entered an order called the Congregation of Jesus.
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In many ways, my story is not a dramatic one. I was brought up Catholic, and grew up going to Mass on Sundays, attending Catholic schools and taking a lively interest in my faith. At university, this faith matured in the company of others who were serious about loving God. Many of them were thinking about life as priests, monks or nuns, and several are now ordained. But most have ended up embarking on married life. I’ve begun to think that deciding to get married and deciding to become a nun aren’t as different as they first appea
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telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11559321/Why-Im-giving-up-my-academic-career-to-become-a-nun.html
 
Pat_the_elder said:
Back to the main point. 45 is a tiny amount for a church who claim 4 million adherents and although it is a welcome increase, I should imagine that the amount of nuns dying or leaving holy orders vastly outweighs this number
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I agree it’s always best to look at the bigger picture. That being said, however, there does appear to be a silent and encouraging reason for hope.
 
I wonder what percentage of the women are becoming actual nuns vs. how many are becoming sisters. The distinction seems to be lost on the MSM.
 
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Wow, a non-hostile article from the BBC on Catholicism.🙂
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Not necessarily a new thing, three years back there was a positive article in the BBC on the increasing reception of Catholic Social Teaching by politicians on the left and right in the UK:

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20154986
**Catholic teaching: The new zeitgeist for Britain’s Left
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A new zeitgeist is capturing business people, academics and political players from both the Left and Right, looking for an ethical alternative for our time. Their inspiration? Catholic teaching…**
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In questioning not just the power of the market, but also the reach of the state, Catholic Social Teaching - updated in the light of the financial crisis in Pope Benedict’s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate (charity in truth) - plays into a new strand of communitarianism reflected in the rise of Maurice Glasman’s concept of Blue Labour, Philip Blond’s advocacy of Red Toryism and even aspects of David Cameron’s rather troubled Big Society programme.
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