Much has been written over the past few decades about the dramatic decline of religious life in the United States since the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, but nowhere is it more noticeable than its impact on women religious. According to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), there were 45,605 women in religious life in 2017, compared with 179,954 in 1965 – a decline of about 75 per cent in a period when the US population has risen from 194 million to 326 million.
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much has been written over the past few decades about the dramatic decline of religious life in the united states since the close of the sec...
Jim Graves
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