Hannah Moore
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384 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2014
last heard May 2015
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I think that's what everyone wants, Tim.
Although I am the best reporter, bar none.
So this story is based on data from the Catholic Church showing that the number of new nuns in England and Wales has trebled in five years.
Three times not very much, Tim.
In 2009, 15 women entered training to become Catholic nuns.
That's known technically as formation.
Last year, 45 women did.
Yes.
The proportion of adult women deciding to enter training and learn to be a nun each year has soared from 0.0006% to almost 0.0002%.
Overall, the number of new nuns was higher in the 1980s than it is today.
But the basic story is that nuns have been dying or leaving their orders in greater numbers than new nuns are joining up.
The total number of nuns in Great Britain has fallen by a third in the past two decades, and it's now 6,000.
the number of nuns is falling across Europe.
But we see a different story in Africa, where the number of nuns has increased from 64,000 in 2007 to 69,000 in 2013.
This is Sister Gemma Simmons.
She's the director of the Religious Life Institute at Haythrop College at the University of London in the UK.
Possibly in the UK, although you could argue that the tiny uptick in new trainee nuns was already happening.
The rise in the number of nuns in Africa predates Pope Francis's ordination in 2013 and the overall trend in the Americas has been downward.
So we'll see if Pope Francis reverses that and South American women start getting in the habit.
That gentleman seemed probably a lot more sophisticated than the average person in the UK.
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