Can you quit being a nun and get married?

Answer 1

Yes, but this would amount to a spiritual undesirable discharge. There have been many such cases and the religious houses are in shambles, personnel wise. There have been, in saner times, MEDICAL discharges from religious life, such as if the sister or postulant(roughy apprentice nun) contracted TB, syphilis , or other contagious ailment all the more sensitive if she was in the health care apostolate. the ex-nun, if she quit primarily to get married, would have a devil of a time getting a priest to perform such a marriage service as she would be a spiritual outlaw. employment, too would pose problems, unless the ex-nun was certified as a teacher or a nurse, ,many of course are. not a good idea, sister/

This answer is completely wrong. Nuns can resign from religious life, and no respectable priest would deny marriage to a woman who had done so. Resignation is not comparable to dishonorable discharge in any way. Many former nuns retain quite good relationships with their former colleagues. Nuns have many employment opportunities, and women who resign have every opportunity for fulfilling subsequent careers. Whoever answered this question doesn't know what they're talking about.

Answer 2

NO. A interesting sidelight is that under certain conditions ( that she have no dependent children, for example) a Widow could become a Nun ( many did in the dark ages, some even founding convents and orders! ( Ste. Jeanne Francoise du Chantal, for example. She is called St. Jane to avoid confusion with Joan of Arc. Sort of a medieval Jacqueline Kennedy type who took the religious life after her husband died in either warfare or a hunting accident. while we are on it- a Divorcee could not- under any normal circumstances, become a Nun, but a widow- as explained can and many did.

Answer 3

Yes, so can priests. I knew a priest who left the priesthood and got married. That's my Catholic answer.

Roman Catholic AnswerONLY if the nun has received dispensation from Rome, from her vow of chastity. Receiving such a dispensation was easier under Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul II considerably tightened the procedure, and very few, if any religious are now receiving such dispensation.

Answer 4

no, unless she somehow quits her nun-hood or they take her out.

Answer 5

They are married to Jesus and take a vow of chastity.