Pop culture has a pretty good store of gleeful nuns along with plenty of repressed, vindictive sisters and mothers superior. The stereotypical nun is neither action hero, rockstar or Klan fighter. That’s why we found a recent list of gutsy nuns in Mental Floss so intriguing.
Clay Wirestone is a freelance writer who compiled a list of some of history’s bravest and boldest nuns for the December issue.
One of the nuns on his list, Dolores Hart, was featured in a 2012 short documentary, God Is the Bigger Elvis.
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