tani reviewed on 7/14/2005

Helpful Score: 2

A woman reporter set out to examine the lives of modern nuns, staying at many convents (or monasteries, as some prefer to be called) and becoming friends with many nuns. She interviewed more than 300 from 50 different orders in America. Some groups have remained traditional, others have radically changed from what they used to be, and there are even nuns who are activists and go against certain wishes of their male superiors in the church. One of the most surprising bits of information in the book was that stricter orders where nuns still wear the somewhat uncomfortable traditional habits are attracting more new aspirants than those in which the nuns do not dress or live that much differently from the rest of us.

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