An audience with Austria’s “rebel nuns”
The elderly sisters who defied Church authority are paragons of speaking truth to power
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Lamorna Ash
Lamorna Ash’s latest book is Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion.
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