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    Former Nuns
    What happened in the hearts and minds of Roman Catholic priests and nuns during the time of the Great Reformation continues today just as in every succeeding generation. Eyes and ears are opened to the truths proclaimed in the infallible authority of the Holy Scriptures. Watch, read and listen to the remarkable stories of these  nuns who have taken a stand on the Word of God.

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    A Medical Nun – Lolly Harding

    Callous treatment of a skilled drug-addicted nun-surgeon by her peer group in the Catholic Medical Missionary Order caused me, a dedicated nun, to become disillusioned. Within every person lies a marvelous adventure story of his life. Here is my story and the three torturous, separate paths I took on my journey toward peace and reconciliation Read More

    From Bondage to Freedom in Christ – Mary Allen

    During most of my life, I never even considered salvation in Christ, because I did not even know about it. It was the Lord’s desire that I be saved before I was born! What a blessing! Scripture says that each believer was chosen before the foundation of the world, “According as he hath chosen us Read More

    A Bride of Christ – Mary Ann Pakiz

    God’s Word Needs No Authority Other Than Itself God’s Word needs no authority other than itself. When I comprehended that principle, I was free–free to search the Scriptures for truth! In them, I found the way to God. Man gets to God, God’s way, through Jesus Christ, as revealed in the Bible. “I am the Read More

    Finding True Freedom in Christ: Nancy Hohman

    Like any teenager, the dream of my life was to have a family and home of my own. I attended public school during the week and catechism class on Saturdays. A Franciscan Order of sisters taught the catechism and one sister in particular played an important part in my life. She invited me to join Read More

    I Had Never Heard the True Gospel By Peggy O’Neill

    I served as a sister in a religious order for about fifty years and during all that time, I had never heard the true Gospel. Certain things may be let ride, but when it comes to the Gospel there can be no compromise, because the Gospel is the power of God for salvation. A false Read More

    A Training Ground for Discernment – Mary McGuigan

    Mom was a “devout” Methodist in 1913 when she “dared” to marry a “devout” Catholic man. As a result, her family disowned her. This was later negated when the loving sisters of Mom chose to renew relationships in their golden years. Into this union were born eighteen children: eleven boys and seven girls. Three of Read More

    And the Truth Made Me Free – Sophia Tekien

    Brought up in a strict Roman Catholic family where the emphasis was on God’s punishment for sins, I was very much afraid of Him.  From my early years, it was also impressed upon me that Jesus founded the Roman Catholic Church, and that only in the Catholic Church was He actually present (body and blood) Read More

    The Unsearchable Ways of God

    Mary C. Hertel (formerly Sister Mary Dolora, C.S.J.) Having taken the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in a Roman Catholic diocesan order, my steps were set in the logical direction prepared by my youth.  Raised in a strong Catholic home, educated in Catholic schools for sixteen years, and trained by six years of convent Read More

    His Banner Over Me Is Love

    Jo Ellen Kaminski “He who hears My word…has passed out of death into life.” (John 5:24) At age nineteen, I was baptized a Roman Catholic.  I had been searching for God and thought I had found the true religion in Catholicism.  My new faith was a great comfort to me, but in a few years Read More

    Mother’s Vocation and God’s Grace

    Donna Spader Shire (Formerly Sister Madonna Therese) Of the sixteen children born to my parents, two became priests and I became a nun.  From earliest childhood we were taught that the Catholic Church was the only true church, and that in order to one day gain eternal life in heaven, we must be good and do Read More

    This Is My Story

    Doreen Eberhardt (D’Antonio) I was born and raised in a Catholic family.  My mother was very devout.  The point came in my life when I wanted to serve God in a special way.  Since I was a Catholic, the only way I knew was to enter the convent.  I decided to enter the Sisters of Read More

    My Desire To Do Good

    Wilma Sullivan (Formerly Sister Wilma Marie, R.S.M.) “Sincere” and “zealous” are the words that describe the religious aspects of my life for twenty-nine and a half years as a Roman Catholic.  I so desired to do what was right.  I went to Mass, received the sacraments, loved my neighbors, and basically tried to do good to Read More

    The Lord’s Providential Call by Fire – Carmen DaMota

    Providential Call by Fire During the Brazilian depression in 1934 my father abandoned our home and my mother found herself with the total responsibility of caring for her family. We were quite poor, my parents had struggled to overcome difficulties and hard times, but our family had togetherness. That is, until my father’s frequent visits to a “Spiritist Read More

    A Labyrinth Way from the Convent to Life in Christ – Eileen Doran

    THE CONVERSION OF A CATHOLIC NUN I was born into a Catholic family where the rules of the Catholic Church were practiced. After eight years of Catholic elementary school, at thirteen years of age, I entered a preparatory high school for a religious congregation. While in the congregation I attended four years of college and Read More

    Jacqueline Kassar a Nuns Story

    Forty five years of my life were spent as a Roman Catholic, twenty two of them as a nun in an enclosed convent dedicated to adoration, reparation and suffering. I believed it was a nun’s calling to be a miniature savior of the world like Jesus Christ. My Decision to be a Nun After attending Read More

    A Nun set Free by God’s Unmerited Grace – Amanda Scopilliti

    Set Free by God’s Unmerited Grace John 8:36 “Who the Son sets free, is free indeed.” Early On Prior to reading Ephesians 2:8 and realizing God’s grace is a free gift given through faith, and could not be earned, I thought I would “do” a lot of things for God. At a young age I Read More

    All I Wanted Was to Know Jesus

    Karlene Lynn A few months before she went to be with her Savior, in May of 1995, Karlene Lynn wrote her testimony.  Pastor Mike Gendron led her to the Lord, baptized, instructed her in the Christian life, and buried her.  Karlene died just eighteen months after receiving the gift of salvation.  She had been a Read More

    The Conversion of a Catholic Nun: My Testimony of Turning to Christ

    Amy Bentley Knowing about Christ has been a roundabout sort of thing for me because I became a Roman Catholic after being taught the truth as a child.  It was the example and influence of my dear mother that eventually brought me to the relationship I have with God today.  She saw to it that Read More

    The Woman at the Well

    Rocio Pestana Segovia The youngest in a family of four brothers and four sisters, I am a Spaniard who was born in Madrid. My family was profoundly involved in the Roman Catholic Church. One of my aunts, Maria Josefa Segovia, was the co-founder of a secular religious order, the Institucion Teresiana,dedicated to education. My Early Read More

    My Search for Peace, a Nun’s Story

    Alicia Simpson I was born into a Roman Catholic household.  As a child I knew nothing but abuse and ill-treatment from a mother, a father and then a step-father, of whom I was terrified.  Because they were people well-known in business and musical circles, their cruelty was never discovered. When the time came for schooling, Read More

    Videos

    Lolly Harding a Former Catholic Medical Nun

    Lolly Harding was 13 years a Nun and was remarkably dealt with by the Lord and brought to Biblical faith from the Church of Rome. Richard Bennett interviewed her on her ranch in Del Rio Texas. A most interesting interview that is quite natural and very evangelistic. A great witness to Catholics.
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    The Grace of God Brought a Nun to the True Jesus Christ

    Former Sister Mary Dolora now Mary Hertel contrasts Convent Life to salvation in Christ Jesus. This video is basic to understanding the meaning of life in a convent. Perfect for someone wishing to understand convent life and nuns.
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    Jacqueline Kassar a Nun’s Story

    Jacqueline Kassar spent twenty-two years as a nun in an enclosed convent dedicated to adoration, reparation, and suffering, trying to appease the wrath of God.   She believed it was a nun’s calling to be a miniature savior of the world like unto Jesus Christ.  Now, on camera, in her apartment into Brooklyn NY, she tells her story with compassion and care for sincere Catholics who truly live Catholic teaching. 
    The heart to heart message in this interview with former Catholics Richard Bennett and Jacqueline Kassar is truly an evangelistic means to reach sincere Catholics.
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    Testimony: A Bride of Christ Molested by a Lesbian

    Former nun Mary Ann Pakiz with sensitivity and brutal honesty unveils the destructive lifestyle of the convent.  She dispels the myth of the convent as a safe and serene sanctuary.  Indeed, Mary Ann documents sexual molestation by lesbian sisters.  These sad and disturbing truths should open many people’s eyes to the dangers of convent life.
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    The Perplexity of the Convent

    This is the heartwarming life story of former Nun, Eileen Doran. Eileen was born to an Irish Catholic family in New Jersey. She had spent sixteen years of her life with the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth. With great feeling she explains the labyrinth of ways in which she sought to be right with God. After leaving the convent she encountered the Lord of salvation. This interview will minister not only to Catholics but also to all who have faced great problems, particularly those who are widowed at an early age.
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    A Labyrinth Way from the Convent to Life in Christ

    This is the heartwarming life story of former Nun, Eileen Doran. Eileen was born to an Irish Catholic family in New Jersey. She had spent sixteen years of her life with the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth. With great feeling she explains the labyrinth of ways in which she sought to be right with God. After leaving the convent she encountered the Lord of salvation.
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    A Medical Nun’s Story


    My first path in the journey of life was as a Catholic medical missionary nun for thirteen years. However, it was the calloused treatment of a  drug-addicted nun/surgeon in the Catholic Medical Missionary Order that caused me, a dedicated nun, to become disillusioned. This is my story and the three torturous paths I took on my journey toward peace and reconciliation with God.  
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    Irish Nun – Peggy O’Neill


    Irish Roman Catholic nun, Peggy O’Neill, served as a sister in a religious order for almost fifty years. During that time, she had never heard the true Gospel. When it comes to the Gospel there can be no compromise, because the Gospel is the power of God for salvation.   
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    From Bondage to Freedom


    Mary Allen spent 26 years as a Nun. She gives a personal and very descriptive account of her long life in the convent. Her coming to true Christian salvation many years after convent life is fascinating. 
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    Devout Convent Life to Conversion


    Jacqueline Kassar had spent 22 years as a nun in an enclosed convent dedicated to adoration, reparation and suffering, trying to appease the wrath of God.  She believed it was a nun’s calling to be a miniature savior of the world-like Jesus Christ.  Jacqueline tells her story with compassion for sincere Catholics who truly live Catholic teaching.  
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    A Bride of Christ


    Former Roman Catholic Nun, Mary Ann Pakiz, had been attracted to the Church thinking that she might best serve the Lord as a bride of Christ. Only to discover abnormal life and lesbianism within the convent.  Some of what Mary Ann has to say is very disturbing but it still must be made open as many thousands are deceived by convent living.  
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    Convent Life to Life in the Lord


    Former Roman Catholic Nun, Mary Hertel and former Catholic Priest, Richard Bennet share stories of family traditions and the devout religious life. Mary shares her story of coming out of convent life to finding true salvation and  a new life in the Lord Jesus.
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    The Perplexity of the Convent


    This is the heartwarming life story of former Nun, Eileen Doran. Eileen was born to an Irish Catholic family in New Jersey. She had spent sixteen years of her life with the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth. With great feeling she explains the labyrinth of ways in which she sought to be right with God. After leaving the convent she encountered the Lord of salvation. This interview will minister not only to Catholics but also to all who have faced great problems, particularly those who are widowed at an early age.
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    A Labyrinth Way from the Convent to Life in Christ


    This is the heartwarming life story of former Nun, Eileen Doran. Eileen was born to an Irish Catholic family in New Jersey. She had spent sixteen years of her life with the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth. With great feeling she explains the labyrinth of ways in which she sought to be right with God. After leaving the convent she encountered the Lord of salvation.
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