LemonCurryWould there also be more monks? More convents?
no to both Would the extra nuns live like a nun?
not at all Wear habits? Assume celibacy?
no to both Call themselves nuns?
no Be officially called nuns?
yes, good questionLemonCurryTo be sure: are we talking about ordinary catholic nuns devoted to prayers and observing catholic rules unconditionately?
not in the slighest 
(In contrast for instance to zombie nuns...e.g. he is the author of "the walking death" and thought about inserting the story of a nun in the plot)
no to the example, but I like the way you think. And again to be sure: can we assume that the number of nuns would have increased in absolute terms and not, for instance, as a consequence of the decrease of something else?
correct Are the reforms actuables? I mean are such reforms part of a fantasy
no or have they indeed been proposed
yes/ could they have been implemented in real life in the U.S.
yes / have been implemented somewhere else?
no Is Dan Brown relevant?
noAre there now obstacles to becoming nun?
I think 'no' is less misleading Objective obstacles (laws
yope, moral rules to be observed, religious rules
no to both, tests
yope ...)? Subjective ones?
no Would new nuns be women?
some would Girls?
most probably not (said WiZ after about half a dozen tabs of fact-checking) Girls/women who thought about becoming nuns before the possible reforms?
most unlikely Or such that the refor.s brought them to think about becoming nubs?
The reforms wouldn't have influenced their discernment in any way Are relationships with Pope/ Vatican relevant?
not to this puzzle Would new nuns have the same duties/religious and social path of "older" nuns (of nuns that were nuns before the reforms)?
not at all Is being virgin relevant?
No Gospel music?
no Belonging to a social group?
yes Possibility of having access to something?
no Overcoming some law?
not overcoming, no Not paying for something?
no Are all religion advantaged by such reforms?
no Others?
no Or instead, there would have been so many disadvantages that becoming one would have guaranteed the some right at least? Some right to women?
no to bothPeterWould more people have become nuns?
yes or would nuns have remained in their vocation for longer?
no Maybe lived Longer?
noGalFiskWould nuns be allowed to reproduce?
yope, Pandora's box of FAs lurking Would younger people be allowed to become nuns?
No - as far as I can tell