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A NUNS WORLD

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What relevance has the convent to an increasingly materialistic world? How does a nun reconcile the demands of her enclosure with the demands of her womanhood and of the world outside her convent? Can a nun of a teaching order, for example, impart to her pupils Miat knowledge of the ways of the world that is an essential part of their education-destined. as most of them are, not to be nuns themselves?
LESLIE SMITH talks about these and other matters to a DOMINICAN NUN, herself tile headmistress of her convent's school
Broadcast on September 14. 1967

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