If The 1st Departures Were in The Late 1960s

It is completed in The 1970s. Lay Teachers outnumber Nuns in the 1970s. By the 1980s many schools go without nuns.
And you wonder WHY Tuitions approach the level of Universities!
Perhaps, by 1973, when the Sisters of Charity-Halifax fled the Convent at 398-400 Grant Avenue in Brooklyn, for housing in Middle Village, Queens, it was an act of shoving it in The Pastor's Face, as an Act of Defiance.
I read up on this & found out that the SC H Principal of that time, is a member of The Leadership Council of Women Religious, a group of Nuns who hold to the Radicalism which caused for an incredible lack of Vocations over the last 40+ Years. These Women are holding out for Priestly Ordination of Women, which is forbidden by Canon Law. My advice to these ladies is "Don't Hold Your Breath, waiting for this to occur-it won't, unless you become Broad Church Anglicans."
And that wing of Anglicanism is spinning their wheels in mud, in short, a Church of no real growth.
The Middle-Late 1960s to Middle 1970s are really the period of time, which set the stage for the explosion of Catholic Sponsored Schools Closings & Mergers.
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