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Destiny Cable airs Sr. Mary John's "Nun-sense"

News lifted from Philippine Daily Inquirer's column of Rina Jimenez-David (At Large), February 10, 2010
Posted: Tuesday February 23, 2010 09:55 AM

For the Valentine's Day episode of her cable TV show "Nun-sense,"
Sr. Mary John Mananzan, prioress of the Benedictine nuns in
St. Scholastica, invited my husband and me to talk about our marriage.

As she told me when she extended her invitation, Sr. Mary John wanted to show that "feminists can have good marriages," and that marriages in which one partner (for even both partners) happens to be feminist can stand the test of time and adversity.  Should I have been flattered that she thought our relationship a model of such a marriage?

Anyway, the taping of "Nun-sense" proved to be a lot of fun.  Sr. Mary John proved to be a "natural" and is one of the most relaxed TV hosts I have encountered in quite a while.  Maybe it's also because the topics she chooses for her shows are quite familiar to her, and for the initial shows at least, she has had as guests good friends and colleagues, who are legion.

For the first "Nun-sense," Sr. Mary John looked into the history of the feminist movement in the Philippines, inviting among others Ging Quintos Deles, who with Sr. Mary John is one of four "founding mothers" of the women's group Pilipina.  We were her guests for the second show, along with Emmy Villar, a psychologist and relationship counselor; Brian, who was one of the first graduates of the course on gender orientation for men; and Princess, a St. Scho graduate who works for Radio Veritas and was there to give the "single lady's" take on love in these challenging times.

"Nun-sense" airs at 9 p.m. on Monday over Destiny Cable.  A TV star is born!

Watch "Nun-sense" teaser