Brides Of Christ

Diane is engaged to be married, but she feels doubts about her love for her fiance. Called by her strong faith, she shocks her family by deciding to enter the Santo Spirito convent as a postulant.

New to the school and coming from a broken home, Frances struggles to find friends, and a place in the stratified world of boarding school.

Vatican II causes turmoil in the Order with its instructions for change and simplification within the Church. A lay teacher arrives at the convent.

During a lesson on sex from the disapproving Sister Agnes, Rosemary learns "the facts of life" for the first time and realises that she's been deliberately kept in the dark by her rigidly Catholic parents.

Sister Paul is a born teacher who joined the convent at 18 and is happy in her vocation. At 24 she goes home to attend a family wedding and meets up with radical priest, Jack Delahunty, who changes her life.

While Mother Ambrose is in Rome, Agnes is in charge. She asks Catherine to teach the official line against contraception, and Catherine begins to find the compromises she is forced to make as a nun almost overwhelming.