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  • A Catholic woman becomes a nun or sister in stages: aspirancy and postulancy, a novitiate of at least twelve months (canon 648), temporary vows of three to six years that may be extended to nine (canons 655 and 657), and final vows at 21 or over (canon 658).
  • For enclosed nuns, the Vatican’s 2018 instruction Cor Orans sets initial formation at nine to twelve years, and active communities such as the Sisters of the Holy Cross describe about nine.
  • Strictly speaking, a nun makes solemn vows and lives a contemplative life in a monastery, usually enclosed, while a sister makes simple vows and works in the world, and we call both of them Sister.
  • No one may enter the novitiate before 17, nor a married woman while her marriage lasts; a divorced woman usually needs an annulment, and most communities ask candidates to be free of debt.
  • Each community sets its own upper age limit: the Rockford Poor Clares and the Sisters of the Holy Cross take women from 18 to 35, the Sisters of Loretto have no set limit, and the women who made final vows in the United States in 2024 were 38 on average.
  • CARA counted 33,135 religious sisters, nuns included, in the United States at the start of 2025, against 178,740 in 1965, and Orthodox, Anglican and some Protestant churches have nuns and communities of women too.

An unmarried Catholic woman becomes a nun slowly, and freely. She joins a religious community and passes through postulancy, a novitiate of at least a year and three to nine years of temporary vows before she makes final vows. Enclosed nuns need nine to twelve years; two active communities, Holy Cross and St. Joseph of Peace, describe six to ten. The call she is answering is the one Jesus gave the rich young man: “come and follow me” (Matthew 19:21).…

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