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Brides of Christ : Season 1
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Air date: 04 Sep '91 - 6 episodesDiane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith. The Catholic Church and its followers are struggling with huge changes. The Pope has died, there is war in Vietnam and mandatory conscription, there is the Vatican controversy on abortion and contraception, and the changing face of the Church as a whole. Told in six parts, Diane faces her own demons and has to finally decide if she can teach what the Church preaches, or if it's simply impossible for her to reconcile all the contradictions of the faith and uphold her vow of obedience.
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List of Episodes (6)
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1. Diane
04 Sep '91Diane is due to be married but unsure of her feelings for her husband to be and her strong feelings of faith, she shocks her family by deciding to enter the Santo Spirito convent as a postulant.
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2. Frances
11 Sep '91New to the school and coming from a broken home, Frances struggles to find friends, and a place in the stratified world of boarding school.
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3. Ambrose
18 Sep '91Vatican II causes turmoil in the Order with its instructions for change and simplification within the Church. A lay teacher arrives at the convent.
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4. Paul
25 Sep '91During a lesson on sex from the disapproving Sister Agnes, Rosemary learns for the first time 'the facts of life' and realises that she's been deliberately kept in the dark by her rigidly Catholic parents.
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5. Rosemary
02 Oct '91While 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.
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6. Catherine
09 Oct '91While 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.
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