In rare rite, women pledge to live their lives as virgins
For the second time in a month, a Chicago-area woman has participated in an ancient and rarely used ceremony to consecrate a virgin in the Roman Catholic Church. She will not be called sister. She will not wear a nun's habit, take formal vows or answer to a superior in a religious community.

Instead, Drajin, 37, joins about 100 women in this country--and an estimated 1,000 worldwide--who have publicly promised "perpetual virginity to God" in their local churches.

This article was in the Trib today. I read it at work, in my ongoing effort to save money $.50 at a time. I think I’ll dig it out tomorrow and copy it to bring home. Bridget returned from work today talking about how her boss (an upstanding member of our parish) was laughing about this article and ‘ripping on any girl who would want to be a professional virgin.’ Then his diatribe descended into a crass commentary on the fact that the featured virgin was walking assisted with a walker and she probably couldn’t get a man. I want to bring the article home and discuss it with Bridget (and any other willing participants). This is worthy of consideration, and consideration beyond the fact that being a virgin over the age of 15 is strange enough to put on the front page of a major American newspaper.