[Gay State Conservative]

Life has to be very tough for nuns...maybe even tougher than for priests.Perhaps the “recruiting” of nuns should be confined to women who've been widowed and are perhaps a bit older.That way they will have had the joy of a family,making their years as a nun less arduous.

[arthurus]

It has been principally tough for the nuns that answered the call to Modernism in the 60s and 70s. The contemplative orders that wear habits and are not just unmarried social workers have mostly been gaining recruits all along. The modernist convents emptied out in the 60s and 70s because the logic of being nun to do nothing different from that which women do for the government and get paid simply decreed that they should shift to colleges and government offices and they did.