Good for them!
Now if more Italian women would do the same reasoning and decide to have children, there might be a few Italians left in 100 years.
Very interesting. I think vocations to cloistered orders are up in Spain, too, particularly since some of the orders have started going back to various traditions - both informal "in-house" and liturgical - that they dumped after VatII.
Hope for the future!
Pray for Vocations
I expect an explosion of regular (as opposed to diocesan) religous vocations over the next three decades. What are your thoughts?
This is good news. God is calling these women, and hopefully He will call other men and women to marriage, family, and the proper upbringing of children.
Whenever I have visited Italy I have always been impressed by their love of children. Wherever we went with our own children, we always had a warm welcome. It's sad to think that the Italians were so seduced by the modern age that they ceased even to reproduce themselves.
Paradoxically, as some have already suggested on this thread, the calling of women into a cloistered life of poverty, obedience, and chastity may reflect a new turn toward God that will also result in a return to the family.
Makes sense.
"They are starting to reason with their heads and not just believing the messages advertising throws at them."
Good news!