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...threatened shortage of sisters in the U.S.-alarming news for Roman Catholics, if true-was revealed last week by the Rev. Edward F. Garesché, a Manhattan Jesuit. His surveys of 43 American sisterhoods (one of which has already appeared in the Catholic weekly America} shows that they now receive only about three-fourths of the candidates they need, and the number of postulants has slumped steadily since...
Three reasons were suggested by Father Garesché: the changed economic position of women; the fact that since 1929 many girls could get jobs more easily than their brothers and often had to help support their families; growth of more secular social work, which offered the satisfaction of service without imposing so many restrictions. A fourth reason was suggested by Sister Christina, Immaculate Heart of Mary: The declining size of the average Catholic family. Her supporting data showed that girls from large families are much more apt to embrace a religious life in a nunnery...
Concludes Father Garesché: "Our time is not as favorable to the development of vocations as more simple and pious days. . . . The girl of today is as free and uncontrolled as her brother. Nowadays the sexes are almost equal in their opportunities for amusements, occupations and freedom of action in general. When women as a whole were kept in the home and subjected to strict discipline, either by fathers and mothers or by their husbands, there was not so much difference relatively between their life at home and the life of the cloister. Time has changed all that, and girls...
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