Doctor Women Religious

Did you know that the Catholic Church Canon Law forbade women religious, sisters and nuns, from practicing surgery or obstetrics?  So a woman named Anna Dengel, Austrian, became a doctor.  At first she attended to poor Muslim women in India.  There the law forbade male doctors from treating women.  Who makes these laws?  Yeah, I know, men.  Anyhow, Anna decides to become a religious order sister, and now a doctor.  No such religious order for a woman doctor like her, so she starts her own and calls it a “pious society,” because it cannot be a religious order.  Women are ingenious.  Eventually, a Pope catches up and in 1936 drops the ban and Anna’s group becomes a regular religious order, “The Medical Mission Sisters.”  What women have to do to get ahead in this church of mine.