Word: nunning
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...decides the provincial efforts of the townspeople to burn the txe publically with malicious ceremony--but he dismisses the teacher. The balancing force in this conflict is Brigid, the Canon's maid, who is in communication with her namesake, St. Brigid, and who has a longing to become a nun. Although the play admits of no explicit and patent interpretation, I would venture the theory that Brigid, in her simple piety, open love and semi-martyrdom at the end represents the core of Christianity, which is, in some respects, perverted in the other characters...
...Trappist Thomas Merton (The Seven Storey Mountain, The Waters of Siloe) with wondering attention. What makes a man give up the world? What is his life like when he does? Monica Baldwin's I Leap Over the Wall is Merton in reverse: the story of a British nun who went back to the world...
...last she asked for release, convinced that she "was no more fitted to be a nun than to be an acrobat." Rescript was granted by Rome, and in 1941, when she was 45, Monica Baldwin "had leapt over the wall." She landed hard in a world full of new, sharp angles, but she was soon dithering about England as gaily as a debutante at a coming-out party...
Monica had learned to handle a drink and even "flung my bonnet over the windmill and accepted a cigarette." Except that she had trouble balancing herself on high heels, the nun had become as much a woman of the world as she cared to be. At present, still as devout as when she first entered the convent, she is living in the country...
...that the actual career which one selects is in itself of only secondary importance. The thing that apparently matters to God is one's motive for embracing it. A ballet dancer may be-and I cannot help believing often is-quite as pleasing to God as a nun...