Meet The ‘Radical’ Nuns Shaking Up The Catholic Status Quo

Meet The ‘Radical’ Nuns Shaking Up The Catholic Status Quo

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Some nuns pray and live a quiet life. Other nuns lobby, fight and push for the types of social justice they deem fit, flying in the face of Catholic orthodoxy or hierarchy.

The new documentary Radical Grace concerns itself with that second group of religious women, who eschew the black and white habit and head out to work directly with the people. 

Morning Shift talks with filmmaker Rebecca Parrish about the nuns who have pushed for what they believe in, including restorative justice and health care for all, bishops be damned.