A cultural shift in America has fewer women joining religious groups, impacting convents like the Sisters of St. Francis in Aston.
The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia have been around for 170 years. They survived the Civil War, the 1918 flu, the Great Depression, two World Wars, and a dramatic shift in American culture.
Now it’s unclear how much longer the 270 sisters can go on, writes Zoe Greenberg for The Philadelphia Inquirer…