Study finds new religious vocations are younger, more educated

A recent study of men and women who professed perpetual vows in 2011 shows that new members of religious orders are younger and more educated than those in the past. "We are encouraged by the report’s findings that men and women are considering a vocation at a younger age," said Mercy Sister Mary Joanna Ruhland, associate director of the U.S. bishops’ secretariat of vocations and consecrated life."As the Catholics recognize their responsibility to build a vocation culture in its...

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