Actress turned Catholic nun

I don’t want to turn this into a news blog, but I thought this story was worth mentioning. Not only for the connection between art and Catholicism, but more importantly to help the Reverand Mother bring attention to peripheral idiopathic neuropathy, a neurological disorder which she herself suffers.

“Dolores Hart, who at age 24 startled the film world in 1962 by leaving a thriving screen career — including two roles opposite Elvis Presley — to become a nun, has returned to Hollywood for her first visit after 43 years in a monastery…

Why? To spread awareness about a largely mysterious neurological disorder that afflicts countless Americans, including herself, called peripheral idiopathic neuropathy…”

Read the full article at MSNBC.