Sister Catherine says she thinks these young women are looking deeper into their faith in reaction to changes in society.
Participation in organized religion is falling among Americans under age thirty. That was the finding of a national survey last year by the Pew Research Center.
A different group, the National Opinion Research Center, recently found that seventeen percent of Americans do not identify with any faith. And another poll found that this was true of almost twenty-five percent of first-year university students.
Sister Kelly Edmunds is a first-year postulant at Saint Cecilia's. She says she came to the order out of a desire to serve others. She had seen Dominican sisters serving at the University of Sydney.
SISTER KELLY: "Just to watch them, walking down the main boulevard of campus wearing their habits -- it was just such a powerful witness. I had friends in engineering who were, like, they knew I was Catholic so they would say to me ‘Who are these nuns on campus?’ And so it was a really great witness to me of the power of religious life."
Sister Victoria Marie is in her second year. She came to the convent with a degree in civil engineering. She says she had discovered that people were more interesting to her than roads or bridges.
SISTER VICTORIA: "So it was a big shift in my life to go from utility to relationship, from ‘What am I going to do? ’ to ‘Who am I going to be for the Lord?’ "
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