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The Turning from Rococo Punch & iHeartRadio

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.811.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The podcast The Turning from Rococo Punch and iHeartRadio tells the story of religious sisters who joined Mother Teresa’s order of nuns, but who eventually decided they had to leave. It asks, what is the line between devotion and brainwashing? Can you truly give yourself to God? If you make a lifelong vow, what does it mean to break it?

Produced by Erika Lantz, Elin Lantz Lesser, and Emily Forman. Editing by Rob Rosenthal. Digital production by Andrea Asuaje. Fact checking by Andrea López-Cruzado. Theme music by Matt Reed. Executive producers Jessica Alpert, John Perotti, and Katrina Norvell.

Find Mary Johnson’s memoir An Unquenchable Thirst here.

Listen to The Turning wherever you get podcasts. Find more information and pictures on Instagram @RococoPunch.

Season 12 - Episode 30

Transcript

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0:00.0

Snap Judgment Studios

0:20.0

See, you might not know this, but the Snap family is vast.

0:24.0

There's an amazing producer, Erica Lens. She used to work at Snap.

0:28.0

And we asked her what she was interested in and she said,

0:31.0

religion. Erica, she's made of magic and fire.

0:35.0

So I've been eager to hear what she'd make. Finally, finally, finally, finally, it is out.

0:42.0

A brand new podcast from a Cocoa Punch and I Heart Radio.

0:45.0

It's called The Turning, The Sisters Who Left.

0:49.0

It's about women who gave up everything to follow Mother Teresa

0:53.0

and her sisters of charity.

0:56.0

Now, you've heard about Mother Teresa, that none in the white, sorry, with the blue stripes

1:01.0

ministering to people on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of women joined her order

1:06.0

and still exist today in comments around the world.

1:10.0

But some sisters found that life inside the order was not what they thought it would be.

1:16.0

And today, we proudly present the first episode of The Turning.

1:20.0

It's about what it's like to enter the convent for the first time

1:25.0

when you realize that everything about your life is about to change.

1:30.0

I wonder if you could tell me that story about the time that a sister had to go to the hospital

1:38.0

and you thought, this is going to be my chance.

1:43.0

So one of the sisters she had been in the hospital recently

1:48.0

and she needed to go back and have a checkup,

1:51.0

it felt like this opportunity fell from heaven into my lap.

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