There is a rising phenomenon of young successful women in the US who want to become Catholic nuns.
In a piece in the left-wing Huffington Post, ‘Behold the Millennial Nuns’, writer Eve Fairbanks rhetorically asks “what on earth is going on?”.
“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.”
Fairbanks also notes, to her great surprise, that the women discerning religious life tend to be younger, more successful, and more doctrinally conservative than their predecessors.
And, despite their differences in political and religious views, she also found their reasons for choosing the strictest forms of Catholic sisterhood—profoundly relatable.
