Here’s all you need to know about why vocations are falling…

“We’re educated women,” said Sister Joan Mumaw, vice president of the order. “Most of us have master’s degrees and PhDs. So, even today, even though we have sisters in their 80s and 90s, we are still learning theology in the light of new science, in the light of new understandings. If you believe that Jesus took on human form and human life, he took on all of it — not just being in church.”

“The IHM Motherhouse makes the point throughout its 376,000 square feet.”

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“The nuns still strive to retire about $37 million in construction costs on the motherhouse, home to the administrative offices of the dwindling order and more than 200 sisters, whose average age is 86.”

OK, this is little old I-didn’t-go-to-university me asking: what would Jesus think of you doing an extreme makeover times a million on a giant building, and spending your money on doctorates in dubious theology?

I’ve met a lot of these nuns-with-PhDs in my travels. None of them were smarter than I am. None.  You had to explain jokes to them. They had no idea what was going on in the world outside their own tiny planet of sleeping, eating (they really like eating), and sucking up Marxist nonsense. (It should be obvious from this story alone that none of them majored in business or math…)