Maine convents turn to Internet for recruitment

Monday, April 30, 2012

BIDDEFORD, Maine -- When Sister Elaine Lachance devoted herself to a religious life straight out of high school in 1959, her religious order had more than a dozen convents in the U.S. with nearly 260 sisters.

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