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...liberalism prefigured modern Christian Democratic movements in Europe. Some left in shame, branded as social or spiritual misfits. Others were simply embittered by their personal experience in the church, or were unwilling to meet the stern demands of religious life. The latter reason impelled Monica Baldwin to quit the convent; she gained a measure of religious notoriety in the 1950s with her bestselling autobiographical explanation, / Leap Over the Wall. Today, in her 70s, she regrets her departure, and attributes it to "self-will and spiritual infidelity." For years, America's best-known ex-priest was former Franciscan Emmett McLoughlin (People...
...doctorate from a secular university. Next month the ranks of former nuns will be joined by 315 members of Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart Community, including its president and former Mother General, Sister Anita Caspary (see box, page 55). Five years ago, the nation's most publicized advocates of convent renewal were Sister Jacqueline Grennan of Missouri's Webster College and Sister Charles Borromeo Muckinhern of St. Mary's College, Notre Dame. Both have since left the religious life. Sister Jacqueline is now Mrs. Paul Wexler and the new president of Manhattan's Hunter College...
...leaving the order next month will continue to run Immaculate Heart College, the high school and the infirmary. The difference, say the nuns, is that they will "be free to follow what Vatican II asked us to do in the first place." As for the old, orderly convent regime of prescribed prayers, meals and periods of silence, Sister Ancilla O'Neill, 77, says: "All those rules kept us from thinking. You never had to make a decision because all the decisions were made for you." Now the sisters have more responsibilities, but more distractions as well: wardrobes, hair care, cars...
SISTER AGNES KELLY St. Angela's Convent The Bronx...
...Kennedy realized another ambition. He married Rose Fitzgerald, the lithe, convent-schooled daughter of Boston's ebullient Mayor John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald. Borrowing $2,000 for a down payment, Kennedy bought a nine-room frame house in the Brookline section of Boston. The family needed the space. Joe Jr. arrived within a year; five of the nine Kennedy children were born within six years...