AS018 Ask Sister – a discerner’s IHM experience, Nuns support health reform, misconceptions about religious life

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AS018 Ask Sister podcast recorded live on March 19, 2010. Sponsored by aNunsLife.org ministry. Topics include: a discerner’s IHM experience, why Catholic sisters support health care reform, Bible translations, common misperceptions about nuns, and more.

Flying Kansas farmboy versus flying Nun

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The Flying Nun is an icon in many people’s imagination — whether Catholic or non-Catholic, whether you saw the originals or just the re-runs. The Flying Nun was a sitcom in the late 1960s starring a young comic Sally Field as Sister Bertrille, a novice with the Daughters of Charity who could fly.

Nun of That movie

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Indie films are some of my most favorite movies. I love the fresh, unconventional, and truly “independent” spirit of these films and the people who make them happen. Sometimes these films make their way to the masses – Slumdog Millionaire is a perfect example — and sometimes not so much. Still, many are worth seeing just for the sheer ingenuity and creativeness that they embody.

Permit Me To Rant

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I am speechless at the moment. I don’t know if I want to laugh and dismiss this book as harmless humor or cry out in rage at yet another product that perpetuates stereotypes of nuns.

Portrayals of Nuns in Film and Popular Culture

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Yesterday I went to a great lecture at Loyola University called “A Question of Habit: The Curious Image of Nuns in Film and Popular Culture” by Professor Bren Ortega Murphy.