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November 25, 2007

I Know there are some funny conversations over dinner tonight at the convent in Nashville . . .

The headline calls the St. Cecilia Domincans Buzzworthy. Well, yes, I suppose they are!

Here's the Washington Post story about the Dominicans and the new Catholic high school they have agreed to staff in Northern Virginia. A paragraph:

But the cheery 42-year-old brings another major layer of buzz to the Arlington Diocese because she is a member of the Nashville Dominicans, rock stars in the world of Catholic religious orders. Although the number of religious sisters in the United States has plunged since the 1960s, resulting in an average age of about 70, there has been an increase in recent years among traditional, habit-wearing orders, including the Nashville-based Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, which has 226 members and a median age of 35. It recently raised $46 million to expand its chapel because the sisters were spilling into the hall. [my emphasis]

Here's their own website.

Here are my previous posts on the Congregation.

They're Rock Stars! Wouldn't "Members of the Country Music Hall of Fame" have been better? Still, I think you should send them money! You know, end of the tax year and all.

Posted by CrankyProfessor at November 25, 2007 6:20 PM