‘Self-resolve in about 20 years’ indeed. I talked to our good priest a bit ago about this. He said he knew many of the sisters in the communities that went through the upheavals during the 60s. He said there was a lot of wreckage left from the rebellions, the sisters made some really bad decisions. He said, ‘They did themselves in. The Church was not really impacted at all, but they were very much.”
The orthodox convents are experiencing rapid growth these days, and the new priests coming in are orthodox, too. “The old order is rapidly changing; get out of the way if you can’t understanding/ for the times they are a’changing.” 60s folks didn’t think it would happen to THEM.
I've seen it right here in the Ann Arbor area of all places. The Dominicans here are traditional and also very active in their support of life.
A couple/three years ago my husband and I were blessed to be able to make a pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament and EWTN and the Our Lady of the Angels Monastery there. The cloistered convent there is doing *very well* for vocations and rumor has it so are other traditional or what some would term “old fashioned” orders. Yes, the times they are a-changing.