In the convent, the young Katharina was inserted into strict monastic life. The hardship here, the second trial, was not the order or the quiet; it was the falsehood that Katharina was immersed in. Convents—and monasteries, too—are pseudo families with pseudo “mothers” and “sisters” and “fathers” offering a pseudo gospel. We are used to seeing monks and nuns as friendly, pious people in popular culture or even our communities, but we need to remember that monasticism is an anti-gospel institution