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March 29, 2010 @ 8:16 pm
Sister Bertrille (aka The Flying Nun)
March 30, 2010 @ 8:33 am
Judith and Maureen are my favorite ex-nuns and the only ones I’ve ever known. As you can guess by the “ex” they are not nuns anymore, but they have been living together for about the last 25 years. 🙂
April 2, 2010 @ 6:58 am
Whoopi Goldberg as a Nun in Sister Act.
March 30, 2010 @ 9:02 am
1000 years ago, when I was in a Lutheran high school, I was forced to be a “chorus nun” in our school’s production of “The Sound of Music”. During the wedding scene, we had to march from the back of the auditorium to the stage while singing and holding candles. One of my friends and I hid stick pins in our sleeves and we poked people sitting on the aisle. One could hear “ouches” all through the auditorium. Needless to say, someone always tells and we got kicked out of choir. It was totally worth it.
April 2, 2010 @ 5:37 am
In 3rd grade, my favorite nun was Sister Anita Louise. She was funny, playful—very much unlike the other nuns. I think she was my first crush. Anyway, that year she was transferred to another parish, and I was heartbroken.
For my 8th birthday, my Mother and I got into a cab, quite an unusual thing for us. She didn’t say where we were going, but blindfolded me. After a ride that seemed to last forever, we got out of the cab and she led me into a cool, quiet room in an unknown building. I remember being led to the seat of a hard wooden chair. My mother then left me alone in the room.
I waited, not knowing what to expect. Then the door opened, and someone removed the scarf from my eyes. It was Sister Anita Louise. I was so very happy! I still remember the sunlight coming through the stained glass window behind her, her smile, me smiling. For a good 15 minutes or so I was nearly dumbfounded with joy. All I could say was her name, over and over—“Sister Anita Louise! Sister Anita Louise!” I can’t remember what we talked about, how long we were together, or anything like that. I do remember feeling an enormous love for my mother when she came in for our bus ride home. I never knew my mother knew how much I missed my favorite nun.
April 2, 2010 @ 7:21 am
Seriously – my favorite nun is my spouse of 22 years-(she was a nun for many years before I met her:+)! We got married in SF City Hall during the window of openness in California in 2009 so it’s legal)/partner/ lover of 22 years. Kate- we saw you many times in Boston/Somerville/ Cambridge when we lived there. I always outed my spouse and the other formers nuns with us when you’d ask from the stage do we have any nuns/former nuns in the audience? I’d yell out and point to them. She was a nun when I met her but she left her order. Wise woman! She’s still my favorite nun and will always be. 2nd favorite has to be Julie Andrews with the short hair and her great singing in the Sound of Music, plus fooling the Nazis!! Thanks for asking!
April 2, 2010 @ 8:30 am
Sister Henrice my Soph yr science teacher. I should have figured out then I was a dyke but she liked Mary Alice better (the suck up)
April 2, 2010 @ 8:42 am
Hey Kate. Nuns made me who I am! 🙂 It’s no wonder I nearly became one back in 1982. I could tell you about ONE nun but I just can’t choose, so instead I’ll tell about several nuns. I went to an all-gal Catholic high school. Twice a week there was morning mass in the small school chapel (attached to the convent, FYI). I LOVED going to church those mornings…I’d be one of a few prayerful, devoted girls to attend. The best part was the extended “sign on peace” in which the substantial nuns with zaftig breasts gave the most delic…er…lovely hugs. Those hugs seemed to last an eternity, far beyond the “peace be with you” that we spoke. I knew there was something different about me when I would fantasize about those hugs and stop praying during service.
April 2, 2010 @ 7:51 pm
My Partner! (nun no mo’)
April 2, 2010 @ 10:22 pm
Definitely the Reverend Mother in “Sound of Music.” When she went to the window and started warbling “Climb Every Mountain” you just knew that Maria’s days in the convent were numbered.
April 2, 2010 @ 11:06 pm
Sister Jane Frances taught third grade when I was in eighth. She was beautiful, creamy skin surrounded by her wimple and big blue eyes.(I later found out that she was only seven years older than I). Since there was a prohibition against “special friendships” (ostensibly only between the nuns), I was forbidden by the principal from having contact with her, being threatened with becoming a third grader and not graduating. We managed to speak through the folding doors in the portable classrooms between her room and the library which I frequented obsessively. She told me about her convertible which she had had to give up of course and other personal details. Although I went away to boarding school with the intention of entering the convent(West Side Story
{should be in italics} squelched that inclination – “Something about Maria”), I was exposed to all the postulants and novices and learned their “numbers” in the common laundry room. There were a bunch of us who had crushes on various religious! And their voices singing Gregorian chant at six AM every morning were ethereal. I did become an English teacher and often wonder what my life would have been like if I had become a nun.
April 3, 2010 @ 8:08 pm
I vote for Nancy Manahan, who wrote “Lesbian Nuns” I’m not sure if she was ever actually a nun, but she was the faculty adviser for the LGBT student group at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College.
April 4, 2010 @ 7:33 am
Yes I must make a confession.Please forgive me I was my favorite nun and I even have the scars to prove it. Had to have both my knees replaced after I went through the doors that swinged both ways….How I ever survived 11 years, my confessor only knows….Well I take that
April 5, 2010 @ 5:44 am
Whoopi Goldberg … Of Course!
April 5, 2010 @ 7:44 pm
Definitely The Flying Nun. Besides Sally Field being a little hottie, in my 10 year old mind, to have wings like that to enable you to fly, would have even converted this Presbyterian/agnostic girl.
April 15, 2010 @ 5:43 am
Well, Julie Andrews of course, but that was just a 3-hour fantasy nun (that I sat through twice in one day, ahhhhhh)
In real life, my former principal, Sr. Aloysius – who is a true saint.
April 15, 2010 @ 10:01 pm
This shows my age, but I think it has to be Ingrid Bergman in The Bells of St Mary’s. Have to own up that I was always a sucker for a good Nuns movie! I guess that’s the EX Catholic in me.
April 17, 2010 @ 12:51 am
Who in the world eats ‘cream colored ponies with crisp apple strudel’?
November 4, 2010 @ 11:00 am
Kitty, that’s “cream colored ponies AND crisp apple strudel,” not “with.”
My favorite nun was Sr. Melanie Svoboda, my 12th grade English/theology teacher. She was a really smart and seemingly enlightened woman, but she towed the party line on HOMOSEXUALITY. I chalked that up to simple ignorance.