Lenore Dowling had been a nun for over a decade when the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary decided things needed to change to embrace the cultural shifts of the 1960s. The Archbishop of Los ...
The 1960s were a time of cultural upheaval for society in general, but also within the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican II Council, which ran from 1962-1965, enacted liberalizing reforms intended to ...
When you read the subtitle of the new memoir, "California Medieval: Nearly A Nun in 1960s San Francisco," if you're of a certain age, you might immediately recall The Singing Nun, the Belgian ...
Jackowski, a Catholic nun who tackled the Churchs pedophilia scandal in her 2004 book The Silence We Keep, offers a funny, revealing memoir about her early years as a nun. As the subtitle makes clear, ...