Religious orders have long been struggling with dwindling numbers of people who want to become nuns and priests. But even those interested in spending their lives in service to God are facing a dilemma: it is challenging to enroll in a religious order if they have student debt.
Alida Taylor hopes to become a nun in the fall at Sisters of Life Convent in New York City, but the order told her she must first pay off her loans.
“That financial debt, having that be resolved allows her to freely enter into her vocation,” Sr. Mariae Agnus Dei of the Sisters of Life told CBS2.
Potential religious have increasingly been turning to family, friends and strangers on the internet to help them pay off debt.
Taylor has debt from her education at Uni…
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