It’s a relief to see the pontiff decrying brutality, because it seems most current world leaders lack the necessary spine
I
have never been a religious or spiritual person, even though I grew up in a religious area and had friends (and strangers) throughout school and university trying to lure me into whatever prayer disguised as organised fun they were up to. I did try it out shortly for a desperate period when I was young, attempting to pray to a God I didn’t really believe in to make me not gay, but blessedly he never answered.
Despite my resistance to organised religion, I have always had a soft spot for nuns and their counterparts. The girlies.
This is probably partly due to pop culture, specifically Sister Act, but even more specifically Sister Act 2 (underrated). There are of course many real-life horror stories involving nuns and people in similar positions of power, but nuns and the nun-adjacent are often portrayed as the kinder and more reasonable arm of the patriarchal power structures of organised religion – groups of women dedicated to a higher cause and direct hands-on caring for their communities (except Sister Michael from Derry Girls).
