This is a list of notable former Roman Catholic nuns and Religious Sisters.
- Gertrude Abbott - Founder of St. Margaret's Hospital
- Karen Armstrong – Wrote Through the Narrow Gate on her experience as a nun
- Monica Baldwin – Wrote I Leap Over The Wall: A Return to the World after twenty-eight Years in a Convent
- Katharina Luther – Left the convent to join with the Reformation and ultimately married Martin Luther
- Marianna O'Gallagher – Former nun and teacher, she became an Irish Canadian activist, historian and public speaker
- Jean O'Leary – Co-founder of National Coming Out Day, she wrote Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence
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“Do your children view themselves as successes or failures? Are they being encouraged to be inquisitive or passive? Are they afraid to challenge authority and to question assumptions? Do they feel comfortable adapting to change? Are they easily discouraged if they cannot arrive at a solution to a problem? The answers to those questions will give you a better appraisal of their education than any list of courses, grades, or test scores.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“Do your children view themselves as successes or failures? Are they being encouraged to be inquisitive or passive? Are they afraid to challenge authority and to question assumptions? Do they feel comfortable adapting to change? Are they easily discouraged if they cannot arrive at a solution to a problem? The answers to those questions will give you a better appraisal of their education than any list of courses, grades, or test scores.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“I cannot call Riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Through my fault, my most grievous fault.
[Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.]”
—Missal, The. The Ordinary of the Mass.
Missal is book of prayers and rites used to celebrate the Roman Catholic mass during the year.
“Both nuns and mothers worship images,
But those the candles light are not as those
That animate a mother’s reveries,
But keep a marble or a bronze repose.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)