Great story! Thank you so much for sharing it. As a gay man and an LGBTQ activist, I have far too often experienced the Catholic Church and its nuns as forces of hatred and oppression. I realize many nuns are nice people, but Catholic clergy and religious are preselected, sorted really, by their willingness to affirm viciously judgmental things about other human beings.

Some of them are able to transcend the hateful doctrines of the Church, but in my own experience, not very many.

LGBTQ issues aside, the Church has long been a force for cultural imperialism. Just ask any indigenous person in Canada what they think about the Church, which cooperated with Canadian government to wipe out their cultures and languages in residential schools, and in the process killed countless numbers of children by abject neglect and even active mistreatment.

As late as last summer, a Catholic priest in Toronto spoke up to defend those schools and to say that they did many good things.

Your story about Jesus kind of drives home the cultural imperialism and authoritarianism Catholic clergy and religious try to impose.