All Else Confusion

Time Magazine does a decent job writing about one of my favorite topics - the phenominal growth of orthodox orders of sisters. It's nice to see this news finally getting out. I've been blessed to have first hand knowledge of many vibrant, orthodox orders through many friends who have entered religious life. Orders such as the Sisters of Life, the Nashville Dominicans, and the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist are full of young sisters and give hope to the Church. God's call is still being answered by young women, full of enthusiasm and eager to live the radical "gift of self" so often mentioned by John Paul II.

The article itself is surprisingly positive:

And although the extreme conservatism of a nun's life may seem wholly countercultural for young American women today, that is exactly what attracts many of them, say experts and the women themselves. "Religious life itself is a radical choice," says Brother Paul Vednarczyk, executive director of the National Religious Vocation Conference in Chicago. "In an age where our primary secular values are sex, power and money, for someone to choose chastity, obedience and poverty is a radical statement."

(Just a technical point - the article refers to "nuns" throughout. "Nuns" are those female religious who live in a cloister and are comtemplative. The female religious mostly refered to in the article are in fact "sisters", members of active communities.)

h/t American Papist

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