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The ‘Rebel’ Nuns Who Stuck It to the Catholic Church And the Man
Kevin Fallon
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Any good Catholic or Catholic survivor can tell you how much their lives were shaped by nuns. What may surprise the rest of us is how society as we know it today has been molded, radicalized, and entirely transformed by them, too.
“Can you smell the pot?” Lenore Dowling asks her friend from the Immaculate Heart Community, the two counting as joyful and passionate, sign-wielding participants at the 2018 Women’s March in Los Angeles.
The pair are no strangers to the spirit of protest, nor to the skunky accoutrement that tends to waft through its surroundings. Within them, that spirit has been downright holy for decades, since they first took their sacred vows as nuns and then, later, when they felt compelled to request a dispensation from them. ....

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