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Still other ex-sisters insist that they left precisely because their orders were not moving fast enough on the road to post-counciliar reform. "There seemed to be such great conservatism and such lack of promise from updating my community," says one former nun, "that I felt there was no point in waiting for the next 50 years." Many spiritual rebels who have left the convent did so in the conviction that they could serve Christ far more effectively in secular life. Unless the orders accelerate the pace of change, believes Sister Jean Reidy of the Sisters of Humility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Restive Nuns | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

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