[Campion]

Consecrated virgins and widows are mentioned in Scripture; the practice is very ancient. In fact, female monasticism started out as groups of consecrated virgins who chose to live together in community.

She's not "calling attention to herself" any more than a postulant nun would be.

[Kolokotronis]

“Consecrated virgins and widows are mentioned in Scripture; the practice is very ancient.”

Indeed they are. They lived in the temple, Campion, and later, after the rise of monasticism in the 4th century, mostly in monasteries. The deaconnesses of course, lived at the churches. This young woman, as I said, and I feel this way about all celibates, should be in a monastery unless there is a place for her to live actually within a church.

“She’s not “calling attention to herself” any more than a postulant nun would be.”

Do they post on the internet too? It seems... “unseemly”, not “comme il faut”.