More Gen Xers putting on the veil

Here's a curious phenomenon: More younger women are entering Catholic convents. Over the past five years, Roman Catholic communities around the country have seen an increase in 20 to 30-year-old women. While the extremely conservative life of a nun may seem countercultural for young women today, experts and the women themselves say that's what attracts many of them. "Religious life itself is a radical choice," said Brother Paul Vednarczyk, executive director of the National Religious Vocation Conference in Chicago. "In an age where our primary secular values are sex, power, and money, for someone to choose chastity, obedience, and poverty is a radical statement."