Chapter 3: The Nun in Combat Boots

Anne Walsh is the combat booted nun who masterminds the Paul Couming sanctuary. Like Father Patrick, she started out as a good Catholic conformist. But when her convent's father confessor begins breaking the law to sabotage the draft, a whole new life of crime opens up for her.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (53:22):
You know, it was just as likely that Jesus would have been stoned, as crucified, when he was put to death. But if he had, instead of Catholics crossing ourselves,we’d be punching ourselves in the head. In the 60s, the great Lenny Bruce had a joke about this where he said that if Jesus had been put to death twenty years ago all the parochial school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks. See, that’s the thing about being Catholic