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...today's newcomers a desired accessory. "A lot of my older sisters would never wear the veil," says Sister Sarah Roy, 29, who is the only member of her Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception in Peoria, Ill., to do so. (The others wear a simple dark dress adorned by a pin.) Though she admits "people just stare at you like you're a freak," she adds, "It's a trend with younger women wanting to wear the veil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Nun Has A Veil--And A Blog | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

Newer nuns see the veil as a public expression of faith, says Cheryl Reed, author of Unveiled: Inside the Hidden Lives of Nuns. "You can understand why a woman who has given up sex, freedom and money would want to wear her wedding dress--which is what they consider their habits to be. You want to say, 'I'm special. I gave this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Nun Has A Veil--And A Blog | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

Katharine Johnson isn't sure yet which wedding dress she will choose--a white one or a black one. At 21, she is in her third year of discernment. For now the senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dresses as her classmates do, though on her ring finger she wears a miniature rosary and a favorite T shirt reads, EVERYONE LOVES A CATHOLIC GIRL. She still dates but limits physical contact to kissing. "As I date men and I date convents, I am waiting for God to say, 'This is where your heart belongs,'" she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Nun Has A Veil--And A Blog | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

Nowadays, the dress makes no sense to me. People wear an unaccountably expensive piece of junk, produced by a company that has excellent labor practices yet also allows its female employees to give blowjobs to the CEO while he is in meetings...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Apparel: Not a Good Place to Shop | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...shit,” he says. It appears, however, that Friedman and Math weren’t on the same page. In the article, Friedman wrote that Alex seemed “almost intimidated by the onslaught of flesh” from his girlfriend’s scandalous dress. Friedman described Math’s ladyfriend at the time—“leggy and blue-eyed with a low inhibition quotient”—as dressed like a prostitute for prom. Math does concede that “in that dress...yeah she did look like...

Author: By John F. Pararas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GQ Was Only the Beginning | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

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