There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.
Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.
On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.
Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.
Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States. . . We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take care of that one, we'll have all the priests and nuns we'll need for the Church.
Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.
We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived very quiet lives. Maybe we don't know a lot about a lot them but what I'm saying is the saints of the 21st century are gonna be regular people - people who've kissed other people. They're gonna be married people.
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us?
The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.
I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.
I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.
I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.
Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious.
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.
"Women," he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.
