At twenty-four, Catherine Coldstream entered a Carmelite monastery and gave twelve years of her life to prayer, silence, and obedience — a freely chosen enclosure meant to bring her closer to the divine. What she found inside was both genuine and costly, and when the contradictions could no longer be held in silence, she left. Her memoir, 'Cloistered: My Years as a Nun,' does not condemn the life she chose but bears honest witness to it, asking the kinds of questions about faith, autonomy, and institutional belonging that have always accompanied the human search for meaning.
Former Nun Breaks Silence on Why She Left 12 Years of Cloistered Life
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