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...does become a nun, Johnson would not be the first member of her family to devote her life to God. Her mother's brother, Daniel Deutsch, is a priest at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Batavia, Ill. At Sunday's mass, he spoke about Johnson's discernment. "Basically her stance is this: Lord I am going to do whatever you want me to do - it's up to you, I'm open," Deutsch told his congregation. "You want me to be a religious sister, I will do that because I have been discerning that. You want...
...Growing up in suburban Illinois, Roy never intended to become a nun. Marriage was the plan even when she got involved at the Newman Center, the Catholic student center in college. But that changed in 2002 when she was earning her masters degree in social work at the University of Illinois. "I started thinking about religious life one day and the more I thought about it, the more I saw myself actually doing it," Roy says...
...took her first vows and relocated to the University of Illinois' Newman Center, where she now lives and works as a campus minister. Part of her job includes spiritually advising 14 young women discerning religious life. To help them, Roy often attends their evening prayer group and organizes "Nun Runs," which are weekend field trips to area convents...
...With her final vows two years away, Roy doesn't have any regrets about her decision to become a nun. She is also confident that other like-minded women are not far behind. "It's a new trend for this generation that they are taking these decisions so seriously and really looking at religious life as a choice," she says. "A lot of people say that younger generations are looking for more stability in their lives. Their lives are filled with chaos. Religious life is much more stable...
Historically, the decision to become a nun was a relatively simple one to make. "If a woman felt that she wanted to be a nun, she would just go to her parish priest and see what he thought," says Sister Sarah Roy, 29, a campus minister at the University of Illinois' St. John's Catholic Newman Center...