"Ha! Right! Cardinal, give the rack [...oh dear] give the rack a turn."
She likely entered the convent back in the early 60's, before the age of Feminism. Unfortunately, she is of the generation that embraced the heady idea of women power, and were convinced that the priests and bishops were only about keeping women down, and that women have remarkable powers if only they were allowed to run things. There were tons of 'retreats' and 'conferences' for religious women held in the 80's that sought to turn these well educated women who actually DID have positions of power, into shills for the feminist movement. These gatherings were designed to try to change the Church from within by changing the women who did a lot of the work educating young people.
Fortunately, for us, younger women who were beginning to hear a call to religious life, saw these communities and the changes in them, and rejected them. Most of the older established communities of religious women are graying. The communities that are growing are the ones that rejected the feminism that ruined the older ones, and are faithful to the teachings of the Church. The Dominican Sister of Hawthorne are one of these groups, the Sisters of Charity, begun by Mother Theresa is another. The late Cardinal O'Connor established an order of religious women dedicated to the Gospel of Life, on the same idea as the new Priestly Society of the Gospel of Life.