{"id":24484,"date":"2011-02-10T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_biggest_obstacle_for_catholic_nuns_lies_at_home\/"},"modified":"2011-02-10T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T22:08:12","slug":"rns_biggest_obstacle_for_catholic_nuns_lies_at_home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24484","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Biggest Obstacle for Catholic Nuns Lies at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communities of nuns and sisters in the U.S. are weathering a season of demographic decline with far-reaching consequences for the country&#8217;s vast network of Catholic schools, hospitals and social services.<\/p>\n<p>But as Catholic leaders try to convince more young women like Graus to dedicate their lives to the church, recent surveys suggest that a big obstacle may lie surprisingly close to home.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the women who professed final vows to join a religious order in 2010 said a parent or family member had discouraged their religious calling, according to a survey conducted by Georgetown University&#8217;s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/news\/religiontoday\/11645434\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communities of nuns and sisters in the U.S. are weathering a season of demographic decline with far-reaching consequences for the country&#8217;s vast network of Catholic schools, hospitals and social services. But as Catholic leaders try to convince more young women<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24484\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,42,101,98,154,364,188,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-children","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic","category-spiritualityprayer","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}