US Catholic Nuns Dwindle, become "None"

[Tom Sawyer]

An implicit association between atheists and pedophiles???
Wait. What?
I don't understand.
How on Earth do you join those (purely coincidental) dots?

It was a Fox News joke. If it didn’t land, it didn’t land.

 

[couch_sloth]

I had a friend, an ultra conservative Catholic and a registered nurse, who became a nun around 2005. She was the type of Catholic who thought the church should go back to preforming their services in Latin, and she thought everyone who wasn’t a Roman Catholic (in good standing) was going to hell.
She couldn’t find a convent in the US that would accept her. She ended up joining a convent in Spain.

 

[Jobar]

I bet there'd be more nuns if they gave 'em bigger hats and flying lessons.


Looking at lpetrich's list, it appears the only countries where the population of nuns has increased is Tanzania, the Phillipines, and India. I wonder if any research has been done on why those countries are going against the trend?

 

[lpetrich]

I bet there'd be more nuns if they gave 'em bigger hats and flying lessons.

Yes, that TV show,  The Flying Nun.

Looking at lpetrich's list, it appears the only countries where the population of nuns has increased is Tanzania, the Phillipines, and India. I wonder if any research has been done on why those countries are going against the trend?

Also Vietnam. All of these nations have in common being Third World nations.