Nuns see orders diminishing on LI
Quick ReadNo one has entered the Congregation of the Infant Jesus in 40 years. The youngest member today is 61.
Photo credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa | Sisters of the Congregation of the Infant Jesus being honored for 50 years of service: Mary Alice Aschenback, left, Norma Jean Lockcinski, Lorraine Struthers, Dolores Wisniewski, Mary Loyola Engel, Margaret Sprague, Jane Lyons and Betty Ann McKiernan. (Sept. 29, 2010)
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Sister Mary Loyola Engel is 102 years old and has been a nun for 80 years. She remembers when healthy numbers of young women entered her congregation, which founded the Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre.
But no one has entered the Congregation of the Infant Jesus in 40 years. The youngest member today is 61.
Like most groups of religious women in the United States, the Infant...
