Thinking About Nuns

How often do Catholics over 50 think about the nuns who educated us? I know there are a lot of sly looks about the inadequacies of women ill-equipped for family life and consigned to join the convent. And there are a lot of wincing jokes about nuns who smacked the hell out of little boys or who made little girls sit at their desks till they wet their pants. I witnessed the first with Dominicans and my mother fell victim to the second with Notre Dames.

But still, in these days of cynicism...