with nuns in convent boarding schools. They are more like the nuns on the bus that people know from being interviewed on the news. Most are very involved in their life's work whether teaching, medicine or social work. They work killer schedules whereas I'm sure they consider the hours they spend in prayer as a rest period. They also take the time to play sports, go swimming and go on picnics on a rare day off. Their sense of community I believe makes up for their foregoing marriage and family and they don't have enough time on their hands to miss those things.

It's a good secure life if you don't mind having to follow orders, much like in the military. Too bad Hollywood doesn't make a movie about the way they really are.

in comparison to the lives of the nuns I knew. Of course it was about a European missionary order in a different era so maybe it was true for its time and place. Also the author of the book seemed to have been something of a misfit for the life which requires obedience and sacrifice of personal wants. She seemed to have been at odds with what was expected of her.

90's. They were very sweet and helped me a lot.

best in their students.

And find the depictions of the nuns to be sound. Have you watched that BBC series?

I have a friend who wants to be a midwife, and another lapsed Catholic has joined us in watching the series again. These are Anglican nuns and young midwives serving a por community on London in the late 1950's and the series is based on a true story. It is so refreshing as there really are so few stereotypes and lots of insight.