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...logic is beginning to take root. A favorite story going the rounds at the Planned Parenthood conference tells of a 27-year-old woman who had just returned to the Chilean capital after a few years abroad. At a reunion of her convent school class, she looked around at 30 classmates, nearly all of them married, and got a "What's wrong with this picture?" reaction. None of them were pregnant, though most of them had been pregnant at the previous reunion five years before. "It suddenly dawned on me," she said, "that they were all on the pill...
...race begins in "Get Thee to a Nunnery" when a British intelligence agent (Peter Lawford) known for his chicanery tells Agents Robinson and Scott that he is all set to recover a fortune in World War II contraband from a local convent...
...nunly innovator. She is the only woman member of the President's educational advisory council, and under her direction Webster has done pioneering research in the development of school curricula. Last week Sister Jacqueline joined the growing number of U.S. nuns (TIME, Jan. 13) who have abandoned the convent. With the approval of St. Louis' Joseph Cardinal Ritter, she is leaving the Sisters of Loretto after 18 years. At their request, however, she will remain president of Webster-which, if Rome permits, will become a secular college owned by a lay board of trustees...
Nothing but Gratitude. Many former nuns remain in the grip of the idealism that led them to the convent-and are seeking new ways to live out this ideal in secular life. One such experiment is the Community of Christian Service in Pueblo, Colo., founded last summer by 13 former Sisters of Notre Dame. The women took private vows of chastity and poverty, live and pray together in a house rented from the diocese. When not pursuing secular occupations-most of them are teachers-they do welfare work among the poor of Pueblo...
They have no regrets about leaving their convent, no resentment at the years they spent there. "We have nothing in our hearts except great gratitude for the spiritual and professional training we received," says Mary Moynihan, 33. "They gave us everything they had." At the same time, they believe that their approach to cooperative living may lead to still other experiments in lay spirituality that the church may some day accept and bless as valid alternatives to the cloister and the wall...