RELIGIOUS LIFE
JACLYN LIPPELMANN. COURTESY OF THE DOMINICAN PROVINCE OF ST. JOSEPH
11 myths about religious life
JOSEPH ANTHONY Kress files into his ordination Mass along with several other men who are about to become Dominican priests.
BY VISION & NATIONAL RELIGIOUS VOCATION CONFERENCE
Don’t let common misunderstandings about sisters, brothers, and priests trip you up on your discernment journey. Here is the hard data on what’s really happening in religious life today.
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ELIGIOUS LIFE has often been mysterious to those outside its fold. To get an accurate picture of it, VISION’s publisher, the National Religious Vocation Conference, commissioned a groundbreaking study in 2009 about newer members in U.S. religious orders. It shed light on many realities and destroyed a number of myths. Since that time, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, which conducted the study, has done further research confirming the facts behind the myths listed here.
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