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Sister Seyram Mary Adzokpa, right, kneels in prayer in the chapel at the motherhouse of the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Young nuns: Two diverse paths to a rare life of faith
By JESSIE WARDARSKI - Associated Press
Fri,12/20/24-7:06AM , 70 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Less than 1% of Catholic nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. Seyram Adzokpa and Zoey Stapleton are two of the young women who have made the rare decision to join a religious community and begin the long process to become nuns. Here are their stories.
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The Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R. of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother, during morning prayer in the chapel of the motherhouse in Toronto, Ohio, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Takeaways from AP’s reporting on young nuns
By JESSIE WARDARSKI - Associated Press
Fri,12/20/24-7:05AM , 100 Reads
Less than 1% of nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. That number has remained steady in the past decade but shows little signs of increasing.
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Zoey Stapleton, a postulant with the Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R. of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother, attends Mass in Toronto, Ohio, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Leap of faith: A few young women in US buck the trends by joining the ranks of Catholic nuns
By JESSIE WARDARSKI - Associated Press
Fri,12/20/24-7:00AM , 101 Reads
PALMYRA, Pa. (AP) — It was a radical idea, and for many years she had been resistant.

But as Zoey Stapleton, 24, walked down a darkened hiking trail, steps behind her parents, she counted back from three and “took a leap of faith,” revealing to them that she wanted to become a nun.
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Christopher Lynch, music historian with the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh, holds a piece of sheet music written by Charles Henry Pace, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh. Lynch and the university are coordinating a project to recognize the pivotal role Pace played in gospel music as an early pioneer of the genre. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Pioneer of gospel music rediscovered in Pittsburgh archives
By JESSIE WARDARSKI - Associated Press
Wed,03/22/23-8:02AM , 139 Reads
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Scattered in crates, dirty and difficult to read, the gospel music of composer Charles Henry Pace sat packed away, unorganized — and unrealized — for more than 20 years.
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