✣Highlights from the week online
Why being a nun beats the Olympics A CBS report asked why more and more young British women are joining religious life. That number hit a low of seven in 2004, the report noted. By 2014 it had increased to 45 – the highest number in a quarter-century. An average of 25 have joined annually in the last three years.
CBS interviewed Kirstin Holum, a former Olympic speed-skater who set junior world records and competed, aged 17, in the Winter Olympics. “To the surprise of her family and friends, Holum entered the community of the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal in the Bronx after finishing college.” Six years later, she was among those sent to open a new convent on the invitation of the Bishop of Leeds.
