Brides of Christ

Season

1991

Australia

8.2

The struggles of nuns and students at a Roman Catholic convent school in 1960s Sydney.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Diane

Diane is about to get married but her feelings for her intended clash with her strong faith. She shocks her family by deciding to enter the Santo Spirito convent as a postulant.

S1 • E2

Frances

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.

S1 • E3

Ambrose

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

S1 • E4

Rosemary

Rosemary, a student at the convent school, struggles with her own awakening independence and education about her sexuality, from which she has been sheltered.

S1 • E5

Paul

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.

S1 • E6

Catherine

Agnes, in charge while Mother Ambrose is in Rome, 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.