Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time.
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That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.
I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.
You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.
I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much.
Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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.
I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.