[Tax-chick]

I wonder if I would have wound up in this metric?

I assume so; you were in "religious life."

I've known several men over the years who were seminarians, but chose otherwise some time before ordination. I don't know if they'd be counted.

I also met one ex-priest - he was dating a coworker at That Insurance Company, a flaky but very interesting lady - and I was told that the man who was our pastor in Norman, OK, eventually left the priesthood.

[COBOL2Java]

I was two years away from ordination. Carmelites are both religious brothers and priests.

The one thing I would say, is something I remember from my Novice Master. He told us that our Novitiate would be remembered as "the best year of our life". That was 35 years ago, and it's still true.