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    Post Behold, the Millennial Nuns - more women are being called -- What is going on?

    Behold, the Millennial Nuns - more and more women are being called to the religious life, after 50 straight years of decline -- What is going on?

    After 50 years of decline, the number of young women “discerning the
    religious life”—or going through the long process of becoming a Catholic
    sister—is substantially increasing. In 2017, 13 percent of women from
    age 18 to 35 who answered a Georgetown University-affiliated survey of
    American Catholics reported that they had considered becoming a Catholic
    sister. That’s more than 900,000 young women, enough to repopulate the
    corps of “women religious” in a couple of decades, even if only a
    fraction of them actually go through with it.

    * * *

    These young women have one last surprise: They tend to be far more
    doctrinally conservative than their predecessors. If you go deeper into
    their social media feeds, past the wacky photos of habited nuns making
    the hang-loose sign, you’ll find a firm devotion to the most traditional
    of Catholic beliefs. They fervently protest abortion. They celebrate
    virginity not as a necessity to free up time to serve God—how some
    “liberal” sisters see it—but as something in itself holy. It’s a
    severity that overlaps neatly, actually, with the OMG maximalism that
    dominates social media.
    https://www.huffpost.com/highline/ar...llennial-nuns/



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    I read recently about millennial males appreciating the traditional Latin Mass.
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    I have mixed feelings about where things are going. Part of me thinks we normals have lost the culture war and that it will only descent into social collapse.

    The other side of me which this post supports thinks things have hit the far end of the pendulum and they will have to swing back.

    I am hoping for the future it is the latter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Admiral Ackbar View Post
    I have mixed feelings about where things are going. Part of me thinks we normals have lost the culture war and that it will only descent into social collapse.

    The other side of me which this post supports thinks things have hit the far end of the pendulum and they will have to swing back.

    I am hoping for the future it is the latter.
    I am a big believer in the pendulum theory.
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    This was in the Huff Post which I understand to be a liberal standard bearer?
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    This was in the Huff Post which I understand to be a liberal standard bearer?
    Yes Left wing publication for sure. In case the Pendulum does not swing back, I recommend all of you that own guns (I do not, after Sandyhook I just couldn't) buy a lot of ammo.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    Behold, the Millennial Nuns - more and more women are being called to the religious life, after 50 straight years of decline -- What is going on?

    After 50 years of decline, the number of young women “discerning the
    religious life”—or going through the long process of becoming a Catholic
    sister—is substantially increasing. In 2017, 13 percent of women from
    age 18 to 35 who answered a Georgetown University-affiliated survey of
    American Catholics reported that they had considered becoming a Catholic
    sister. That’s more than 900,000 young women, enough to repopulate the
    corps of “women religious” in a couple of decades, even if only a
    fraction of them actually go through with it.

    * * *

    These young women have one last surprise: They tend to be far more
    doctrinally conservative than their predecessors. If you go deeper into
    their social media feeds, past the wacky photos of habited nuns making
    the hang-loose sign, you’ll find a firm devotion to the most traditional
    of Catholic beliefs. They fervently protest abortion. They celebrate
    virginity not as a necessity to free up time to serve God—how some
    “liberal” sisters see it—but as something in itself holy. It’s a
    severity that overlaps neatly, actually, with the OMG maximalism that
    dominates social media.
    https://www.huffpost.com/highline/ar...llennial-nuns/



    Wow. My sympathies to the young men at Georgetown! I'm shocked that millenials would embrace a life that many believe to be blatantly sexist because these young women cannot become priest instead on nuns. Do you see that changing anytime soon?

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Wow. My sympathies to the young men at Georgetown! I'm shocked that millenials would embrace a life that many believe to be blatantly sexist because these young women cannot become priest instead on nuns. Do you see that changing anytime soon?
    It is not seen as sexist by the Catholic women I know. It will not change. On May 22, 1994, John Paul IIissued Ordinatio sacerdotalis. In it he stated that the Church cannot confer priestly ordination on women:


    Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church's divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful.


    Pope John Paul II
    , in Ordinatio sacerdotalis, explained the Roman Catholic understanding that the priesthood is a special role specially set out by Jesus when he chose twelve men out of his group of male and female followers. John Paul notes that Jesus chose the Twelve (cf. Mk 3:13–14; Jn 6:70) after a night in prayer (cf. Lk 6:12) and that the Apostles themselves were careful in the choice of their successors. The priesthood is "specifically and intimately associated in the mission of the Incarnate Word himself (cf. Mt 10:1, 7–8; 28:16–20; Mk 3:13–16; 16:14–15)".[citation needed]

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    Women becoming priests is a possibility, but not in the near future.
    Glad to see prayers for vocations being answered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NapRover View Post
    Women becoming priests is a possibility, but not in the near future. Glad to see prayers for vocations being answered.
    If I understand what PJP2 said correctly, because Christ nominated men as his disciples there will never be women priests. The Church views it as outside its authority.
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