For as long as Maureen Mary Mulldoon could remember, her destiny was to become a Catholic nun. With rosaries recited, novenas said, and candles lit in her honor, her Irish family prayed for her dedication to the church. Maureen's aspirations became not of marriage and children, but of life in the convent. But within a few short years at St. Timothy's Catholic School, the shy, freckle faced girl with unruly red curls soon begins to recognize the shortcomings of religious life. She finds the nuns' black dresses hideous, the giant swinging rosary beads cumbersome, and the nuns' somber...