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  2. Catholic sisters and nuns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first women religious in what would become the United States, were fourteen French Ursuline nuns who arrived in New Orleans in July 1727, [5] and opened Ursuline Academy, which continues in operation and is the oldest continuously operating school for girls in the United States.

  3. Ordination of women and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Religious life is a distinct vocation in itself, and women live in consecrated life as a nun or religious sister, and throughout the history of the Church it has not been uncommon for an abbess to head a dual monastery, i.e., a community of men and women. Women today exercise many roles in the Church.

  4. Women in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Women are engaged in a variety of vocations, from contemplative prayer, to teaching, providing health care and working as missionaries. In 2006, the number of nuns worldwide had been in decline, but women still constituted around 753,400 members of the consecrated life, of a total worldwide membership of around 945,210. Of these members ...

  5. The number of nuns, also called religious sisters, serving in the United States declined by 80% from 1965 (178,740) to 2023 (35,680) despite the number of Catholics affiliated with a parish ...

  6. Young nuns: Two diverse paths to a rare life of faith

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    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Less than 1% of Catholic nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. Seyram Adzokpa and Zoey Stapleton are two of the young women who have made the rare decision to join a religious community and begin the long process to become nuns. Here are their stories. From Ghana to Texas to a New Orleans convent

  7. 'It's my happy place': Two Catholic nuns keep teaching ...

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    Some grandparents of today's Blessed Sacrament students can remember when nuns staffed every Erie Catholic school, doling out homework, prayers and discipline in equal measures.

  8. Nun - Wikipedia

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    A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service and contemplation, [1] typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent. [2] The term is often used interchangeably with religious sisters who do take simple vows [3] but live an active vocation of prayer and charitable ...

  9. Courtesy Sundance Film FestivalAny good Catholic—or Catholic survivor—can tell you how much their lives were shaped by nuns. What may surprise the rest of us is how society as we know it today ...