More Young Women Find a Calling in Catholic Order

From voaspecialenglish.com | http The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia's is a Catholic religious order in Tennessee. St. Cecilia's looks and sounds much like it did when it first opened 150 years ago. But there is also something new: the voices and laughter of young woman studying to become Dominican sisters. The current group of first-year students is the largest in many years. Sister Catherine Marie is a spokesperson for St. Cecilia's. SISTER CATHERINE MARIE: "There are 270 of us, and our growth of late has been rather extensive. This year, we had 27 young women enter. Last year, it was 23.Great blessings to us." Sister Catherine suspects these women want to look deeper into their faith. Studies have shown that Americans are interested in spiritual issues; yet their involvement in organized religion is falling.She says the Dominican Order was founded during a period of social unrest. SISTER CATHERINE MARIE: "There was a whole lot going on in the world that was very irreligious. And yet from this emerged an idealism and a wholehearted desire to give of self." That desire led Sister Kelly Edmunds to join St. Cecilia's. She remembers how students at the University of Sydney reacted to Dominican sisters who served there. SISTER KELLY EDMUNDS: "Just to watch them walking down the main boulevard of campus wearing their habits ... it was just such a powerful witness! And I had friends in engineering who were like, they knew I was Catholic. So they would say to me, 'Who are ...



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