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Katharine Johnson, a senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has two big decisions to make. The first is typical for a college student: Where to go to graduate school? The second is practically unheard of: Which convent to enter...
...lunch table or to find people sitting in the Chapel in their pajamas at 3 a.m.," says Johnson, who was raised Catholic. St. John's has a national reputation for turning out priests and nuns. Since 1997, it has sent 69 men and 14 women to the seminary or convent...
...start of her sophomore year, Johnson was attending mass daily and receiving weekly counseling from a spiritual director at St. John's. She also went on her first Nun Run, a weekend field trip to a local convent. At that point, her parents realized Johnson's discernment was not just a passing phase. Her father, Len, took it the hardest. "I was initially very upset by Katharine's discernment," says Len, a manager at a power plant in Joliet, Ill. "I always had visions of her being a wife and a mother, but especially a mother because of how good...
...Bronx, N.Y., 16 young women are making their way through that journey. They include a former Marine, a professional opera singer, a United Nations aide and a recent Yale grad. They have left behind paychecks, apartments, even boyfriends. Sister Thérèse Saglimbeni, 27, a novice who joined the convent in 2005, recalls watching the sisters playing volleyball while she was a student at the nearby State University of New York Maritime College. "I was with my boyfriend and had said how fun the sisters looked," she says. "He said, 'Well, why don't you join them?' And I replied...
Sister Joseph Andrew Bogdanowicz, vocation director at the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, credits e-mail to some extent with what can only be described as her order's astonishing growth. Founded in 1997 as an offshoot of a large convent, the Sisters now have 73 members with an average age of 24. In 2006, 15 women entered as postulants. Next August, more than 20 women are scheduled to join them. The order is fund raising for a new convent for them to live in. "We cannot build fast enough. It's incredible," says...