Takeaways from AP’s reporting on young nuns
Associated PressLess than 1% of nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. From sharing flip phones to wearing habits, nuns choose a radical life In August, Zoey Stapleton, 24, joined the Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother — a community in rural Toronto, Ohio. Power found support through the Labouré Society, a Catholic nonprofit organization that helps young women discerning religious life pay off their student loan debt. Unlike the Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R., whose median age is 40, the Sisters of the Holy Family, one of the few religious orders founded for Black women in the United States two decades before the Civil War, is among the majority of communities today whose members are on average 70 and older. About 50% of all who enter religious life stay for their final vows and half leave, according to Sister Debbie Borneman, director of mission integration with the National Religious Vocation Conference.
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