A new report shows that Catholic sisters in the U.S. face a more serious challenge to their existence than the Vatican-led investigation of the American nuns: A rapidly aging membership and a decline in vocations that afflicts even the most traditional orders.
“The overall change in the population of women religious in the United States over the past 50 years is one of dramatic decline,” wrote the authors of the report, published Monday (Oct. 13) by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.
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