"That's not the way it is with most nuns," she says.

"And what would she be havin' to do with nuns?"

During his twenty years in Jamaica, he encouraged the growth of a local church with a native clergy and nuns.

After spending many years living with nuns in the hospital, becoming one just seemed natural, she said, even though she couldn't attend a Catholic school.

If accepted, the candidate lives with other nuns for two years but retains her outside job and assets.

I know with priests and nuns why they're good to us.

Peter and Paul, he had rallied enough to make friendly jokes with local nuns.

Deserted for many years it is now reconstructed and occupied with nuns.

She seemed younger than her assistant... but how is one to tell with nuns?

At the same time, he began helping the poor and the handicapped, together with nuns from local convents.