Outrage: Sister Molly Cleary vs. The Catholic Church

Sister Molly Cleary, a tough, no-nonsense nun from a poor, southside Chicago Irish-Catholic family, understands women's struggles all too well. Faced with a choice between motherhood and the convent, she chooses religious life but never forgets that her own mother died in childbirth after too many pregnancies, leaving nine-year-old Molly and her six siblings motherless.

As Vatican II and the women's liberation movement blow gale-force winds of change through the Catholic Church and wider soc...