"Damnit, Sister, I didn't know you were a nun when I stopped you for driving through a red light. I'm not supposed to ticket nuns!" I guess there was a benefit for nuns in cars as well as for the City of Chicago, about which nuns chuckled that their habit's hems swept the sidewalks. Most habits are gone but sisters continue to minister in many places and many ways--with their law degrees, education degrees, science degrees, medical degrees, and much more. Women became religious wanted to serve; they did but also were required to live in a monastic-style existence and were hence at the edge of the laity's consciousness. Nowadays, sisters are JPFs---just plain folk--and free to intereact wherever and however, without worrying if the street is being swept by the hems of their skirts.