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Re: Where Have All the Brothers Gone?
Posted by Jack Heslin on 11:47:03 06/16/21
Thanks for the post Sully.
My wife Jean, who had 10 siblings, had two sisters and three brothers who left the religious life at various times. One sister, Jean's identical twin, left the Poor Clare cloistered monastery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, after 12 years. Jean also had two aunts leave religious life after 30 years.
All the Catholic religious orders had great difficulty recruiting and keeping their members starting in the sixties and continuing to this day. We could talk a long time on the reasons for the exodus but I suspect you already know most of the reasons.
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