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...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...
More startling than Jacqueline Grennan's decision to become a laywoman is her proposal to laicize Webster. Legally, the college is owned by a Missouri corporation, whose board of trustees is the general council of the Loretto Sisters. Pending approval from the Vatican's Congregation of Religious, the Sisters have agreed to turn over the control of Webster to a board of laymen. "It is my personal conviction," said ex-Sister Jacqueline, "that the very nature of higher education is opposed to juridical control by the church...
...Louis-born Marilyn Morheuser entered the Roman Catholic Sisters of Loretto. After 16 years as a nun, she left the order to become a civil rights worker in Milwaukee. "I was happy," she recalls of her convent life. "But it was like being in a box with windows in it. You can see things happening outside. You want to help, but you can't, because you're inside...
...Second Vatican Council. Time was, says Mother Benedicta of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, when women fled from the world into convents "in order not to be corrupted by it." Far too many immature girls, adds Psychologist Marie Francis Kenoyer of the Sisters of Loretto, accepted "poverty to escape financial responsibility, obedience to escape decisionmaking, chastity to escape involvement and the demands of love." The Council caused many nuns to ask themselves for the first time whether they had genuine vocations. When the answer was no, they left...
...result, many convent partings are amicable. Even former nuns who get married are welcomed back to visit their old convents, and some, in fact, regard themselves as dedicated alumnae of their orders. A case in point is Mary Louise Prendergast, who left the Sisters of Loretto last year after 20 years as a nun. Although an unmarried laywoman now, she remains chairman of the science department at the Loretto Sisters' Webster College...