Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.
I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.
I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.
I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.
A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.
When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.