More young women looking at life as a Nun
July 12th, 2019 at 7:07:57 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 | Behold, the millennial nuns. I will add more later, but am both up to my tail in alligators and would like to give the Padre first crack at comments. The President is a fink. |
July 12th, 2019 at 7:31:19 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Good luck outrunning them. |
July 12th, 2019 at 7:35:09 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Behold, you can get ANY response you want from a questionnaire. |
July 12th, 2019 at 8:09:03 AM permalink | |
Mosca Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 22 Posts: 730 | “13% considered” on a survey conducted at a Jesuit university. That’s a pretty bold extrapolation to 900,000, I think, unless they got responses from 7 million women. And, “considered” is a nebulous word: thought about it while falling asleep? Picked up a brochure? Looked at a sister in church and thought, she looks cool? Sisterhood is a harder sell than priesthood. I have two friends whose sons became priests, and others whose sons have considered it, but none whose daughters have given it any thought at all, that I know. |
July 12th, 2019 at 8:19:19 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | I knew one nun who quit after nine years and felt her family should compensate her for having always pushed her toward the church because it was the only safe 'cover' for her sexual orientation of which they were deeply ashamed. Its probably easier for priests to get something on the side since nuns often have travel in groups of three. |
July 12th, 2019 at 10:48:57 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Before women's lib in the 70's, it was easier for a girl to go from a male dominated society into an extreme male dominated Catholic Church. Many nuns today go into it in their 40's, when the kids are grown and the husbands disposed of. It offers easy work, lots of companionship, and a killer retirement plan. They feed and house you till you die. From the article: "And 60 percent of those women, Tuohy said, explicitly asked if they could join an order that would force them to wear a habit. (Currently, only about 20 percent of sisters in America wear one.) Amid all their freedoms, Tuohy deduced, these young women wanted to be led. Even constrained." And there you go. They want to be noticed, they have low self esteem. Like people covered in tattoo's, they want the nuns uniform to scream "Look at me! I'm different, I'm special." The absolute wrong reason to be joining any religious org.. "Millennials and Generation Z kids report much higher levels of social anxiety, pessimism and depression than previous generations." These are spoiled brats who think life has 3 choices, apparently. Get a job, yuk. Become a drug addict. Or, get thee to a nunnery where you never have to make a decision, have a thought, or worry about anything. And you get to wear a Halloween costume so you'll get a ton of attention from the outside world. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 12th, 2019 at 11:23:05 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18629 | There’s several old movies that idolized nun life. Real or not it would draw young women to the life. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
July 12th, 2019 at 11:28:48 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18629 | They should have a nunnery that has requirements like a seal team. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
July 12th, 2019 at 11:39:32 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | I actually read the whole article. It's sad what modern colleges have done to young people. They promise them everything and deliver nothing but staggering college debt. They get out into the real world and realize they actually have to work to be a millionaire, which they just don't understand. So some of the girls feel hopeless and depressed and want to give up and join a nunnery where every one of life's decisions is made for them. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 12th, 2019 at 12:56:59 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Still not ready for making some full comments, but I got a mini-stay of execution. IMHO, lots of people want their decisions made for them. Look at how many want the government running their health care, their choice of college, the ones who become wards in public housing and assistance. Lots of married women just want their husbands to take care of everything, flipside a few men are like this. Probably comes down to personality type. The President is a fink. |