Sometimes Catholic life can be humorous. When I was a teen (that would be back in the 1960's), the sisters at a nunnery situated on a bluff in New Jersey, overlooking the Hudson River, commissioned an artist to create a life sized outdoor depiction of "the crucifixion".

At the unveiling ceremony, the drape that had been covering the new statue was released in front of a breathlessly expectant bevy of nuns. As the drapery came down, gasps and shrieks were heard from the assembled onlookers, and one nun reportedly straightway fainted.

It seems the artist had rendered the crucified Christ sans the usual loincloth, thereby exposing the savior's circumcised willy ! Needless to say, this particular work of art did not remain on the nunnery grounds for very long. I thought this whole episode intriguing if only because nuns are said to be "brides of Christ" . . . But evidently these brides never "knew" their shared husband.