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Unpaid, unappreciated and completely under patriarchal control, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart decided their vows of service needed updating. The nuns of what would become the most (in)famous archdiocese in 1960s Los Angeles weren't trying to start a revolution, but felt duty-bound to help those who were making real Christian change. Deeply called by the Civil Rights Movement, they marched on Selma, committed to feminism, demanded pay cheques for what had been completely unpaid civil work and denounced the war in Vietnam. They protested so fiercely that acclaimed artist Sister Corita Kent made the cover of Newsweek magazine. But their very public demonstrations of a more modern Catholicism bore so deeply under the collar of the city's famously conservative archbishop, the Vatican came calling. The era would change secular culture completely, but not even these rebellious brides of Christ could have predicted such a spectacular and reverberating divorce from the Church. Myrocia Watamaniuk
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