Couple years back Salon ran a story asking if millennials would become nuns. The implied answer was a big fat no. American nuns have been on a demographic slide since the sixties, and the remaining population skews senior.
But then earlier this month the New York Times featured a story about the surprising number of college-educated millennials seeking life in the cloister. It’s no groundswell, but it’s still encouraging. And I wonder what might be done to increase it further.
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