MKJ
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I thought all priests and nuns belonged to some religious order or another?
Nuns and monks are in orders.
Priests may be, but many are not, especially parish priests.
In the past decades, for a variety of reasons, it has been fairly common to see priests who are members of monastic communities serving as parish priests as well, because of shortages. There are a lot of problems with that though, and recently there has been a pull back from the orders, IIRC under the direction of the higher parts of the Church to try and concentrate more on the missions of the orders.
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