motherhouses

And we have three motherhouses in our Diocese whose first concerns are selling the real estate, getting the retirement money, and who is going to blow out the sanctuary light when the last one goes...if the good Lord is going to even be there.

Going Non-Canonical - and an alternative strategy 2009

Taylor spent a lot of time with these not-so-traditional nuns, who sod-bust the manicured lawns around their motherhouses to create community-supported organic gardens, build alternative housing structures and hermitages from renewable materials, adopt the "green" technology of composting toilets, solar panels, fluorescent lighting, and hybrid vehicles and turn their community properties into land trusts with wildlife sanctuaries.

Harvard University Press Publicity Blog : 2007

Taylor spent a lot of time with these not-so-traditional nuns, who sod-bust the manicured lawns around their motherhouses to create community-supported organic gardens, build alternative housing structures and hermitages from renewable materials, adopt the "green" technology of composting toilets, solar panels, fluorescent lighting, and hybrid vehicles and turn their community properties into land trusts with wildlife sanctuaries.

Catholic political activism 2007

With the help of their motherhouses our various sisterhoods have dotted the West with convents, schools, hospitals and charitable institutions.

Catholic Problems in Western Canada George Thomas Daly 1914