Sister Mary Lou

Mary Lou Pfannenstiel grew up with the strong desire to become a nun. She gladly accepted the life and routine at St. Joseph's Academy and looked forward to the day when she would take her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and become the bride of Christ.

Then doubts began to arise in the mind of Sister Mary Lou and her sister companions. Perhaps the greatest shock came with the realization that the pope, the priests, and the bishops, along with the mother superiors, who had always be...