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Don’t Call Them Nuns. They’re Podcasters.

They pray, they play Ultimate Frisbee and they have unwittingly become a meme.

Dominican Sisters in Michigan have found internet fame with a new podcast where they talk about everything from converting to Catholicism to “Saturday Night Live.”

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Don’t Call Them Nuns. They’re Podcasters.

They pray, they play Ultimate Frisbee and they have unwittingly become a meme.

Dominican Sisters in Michigan have found internet fame with a new podcast where they talk about everything from converting to Catholicism to “Saturday Night Live.”

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By

Madison Malone Kircher

Photographs by

Rosem Morton

March 28, 2026

Sister Miriam Holzman’s white habit was crisp and clean as she settled in beside her microphone on a Wednesday morning in late March, her wire frame glasses tucked into her black veil. A silver pendant depicting the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus gleamed around her neck under the bright lights of a recording studio in Michigan. Behind her, a well-styled bookshelf bore a Bible dictionary, a set of Catholic encyclopedias and several fake plants.

Across the table, Sister John Dominic Rasmussen sat ready to record an upcoming episode of “Dominican Sisters Open Mic,” a new podcast produced by the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, in Ann Arbor. (The women are referred to as sisters, not nuns, who are cloistered.)

In each episode, a host, typically Sister Miriam, 44, interviews a guest, usually another sister, about her life, covering subjects like her education — several of the women have Ph.D.s — or her conversion journey. While the topics themselves might sound weighty, the conversations are often quite wide-ranging, like a dialogue between two, well, sisters.

The show is just one of several efforts the sisters have undertaken in recent years to spread their religious message to a wider audience in “the new public square,” Sister John Dominic, 61, said. In 2010, she was among several sisters who appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in a segment about convent life.

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