Each step is a big step," she explains. So what do nuns do all day? "The consensus out there," says Edith Maria, "is that we don’t do very much!" "I had a friend visiting me who’s engaged ...

Despite attending Catholic school for nine years and going to church regularly as a kid, I never had very much interaction with nuns. They always ... sister is a virgin. We had one woman who ...

They knew that you had to be selective, and just because somebody grows up and they think they want to be a nun doesn't mean they're going to be the right fit or the right person for the work we ...

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