Zoey Stapleton, right, a postulant with the Franciscan Sisters T.O.R., of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother, talks with her parents who are visiting from Pennsylvania after Mass in the chapel of the mother house in Toronto, Ohio, in November 2024.
January 10, 2025
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Young nuns: Two diverse paths to a rare life of faith
Born in Ghana, Sister Seyram Mary Adzokpa had never encountered a nun until adulthood. Growing up a cradle Catholic in Pennsylvania, Zoey Stapleton was surrounded by them. The two young women took diverse paths but have both made the rare decision to join the diminishing ranks of Catholic sisters in the U.S.