Novitiate Takes Us Behind The Convent Walls, Into The Secret Lives Of Nuns

Few vocations are as mystifying as that of nuns. What do they do all day, behind those convent walls? And what compels them to choose this life, and leave their family, friends and the ability to hug people behind? In both pop culture and history alike, nuns have been portrayed as a lowly, repressed bunch; the expectation is that they've chosen to live the rest of their days in a convent as a last resort. But it requires grit and determination to willingly become part of a community that is far ...