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
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, roman, catholic and/or nuns:
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“Hey, you dress up our town very nicely. You don’t look out the Chamber of Commerce is going to list you in their publicity with the local attractions.”
—Robert M. Fresco, and Jack Arnold. Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar)
“My first childish doubt as to whether God could really be a good Protestant was suggested by my observation of the deplorable fact that the best voices available for combination with my mother’s in the works of the great composers had been unaccountably vouchsafed to Roman Catholics.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“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)