Where have all of the Catholic nuns gone?

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Roman Catholic AnswerI believe that you are asking about the Catholic Sisters, the ones who used to teach in all the Catholic schools, and nurse in the Catholic hospitals. Nuns are in monasteries, they are enclosed and do not go out. After the second Vatican Council, as Pope Paul VI, on the ninth anniversary of his election, and later at his general audience on 15 November 1972, noted: "from some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God." I am putting the link below to the entire address of the Holy Father at that time. The point is that the "Spirit of Vatican II" which had less than nothing to do with what the Council actually said, became prevalent in the Church among many theologians, it particularly affected the religious. The good Sisters abandoned their habits (their religious costumes they wore), they abandoned community life, and they embraced some philosophies that tend to fit more with Gloria Steinem and radical feminism, and, unfortunately, paganism, as opposed to solid Christian religious values. Many of the women who entered these various religious orders at that time, appalled at what was going on, left, others embraced the new values, and also left. The few that were left embraced the new values - not all of them, but most, and tried to reinvent themselves in this new philosophy. The American Sisters split into two different congregations of women: one is the LCWR - this is the old group, founded by the Vatican in the 1950's to communicate with the women religious in the United States, it is the "Leadership Council of Women Religious". The second group, the Conference of Major Superiors of Women Religious, broke away from them several decades ago. The former group is the one with all the problems. Most of their Orders have had no vocations for many years. There are more sisters over the age of 90 then under the age of 60, they do not wear habits, do not live in community, and, for the most part, are not following the charism of their founding mothers. The second group is growing by leaps and bounds, they are faithful to the Church, they are wearing habits, they live in community and are averaging 20% new vocations each year. Please keep all the women religious in your prayers, we need these women, and they need the Church.