“As 1967 began, her Mother Superior informed her that she and her fellow novices were being sent to live in the ‘real world’ - Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles and the black ghetto of Watts. She found out for the first time about drugs, the peace movement and covert homosexuality. “ was enrolled in Immaculate Heart College, where sensitivity training, encounter groups and open classrooms exposed her to new ideas and emotions. The IHM community in Los Angeles would eventually separate from the church just a few years after Cordova left, but during her year there, she experienced religious life in a time of postconciliar tension between hopeful reforms and lingering ills in the church. Being in the service of God within a community of women felt natural and right.”Ĭordova left after a year in the novitiate, a year after Vatican II ended, when religious life was changing dramatically. “I chose the convent because I knew I wasn’t interested in the world of men and women, marriage, children-’that’ lifestyle. But there was a secondary reason why Cordova joined the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1966: In her own words, she “fell in love with God at the age of seven,” and this love was the main reason she became a woman religious.
Cordova grew up in a conservative Catholic family, attending Catholic schools before entering religious life.
In her post, Cherry offered a more expansive remembrance of Cordova’s life, drawing from her writings and from interviews. It is also one of the best-selling lesbian books of all time.Both the church and the secular LGBTQ community may prefer to forget the uncomfortable truth: Same-sex love exists in the church, and the church trained some leaders of the LGBTQ rights movement.” “‘Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence’ remains the definitive work on this hidden and forbidden subject more than 30 years after it was first published. Cherry remembered that Cordova was instrumental in the greater history of LGBT equality, beyond her “radical revelations about lesbian nuns.” Cherry stated:
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