Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You was inspired by Christopher Durang’s upbringing in the Catholic Church. Durang was raised Catholic, and attended Catholic grammar and high schools. This play satirizes the teachings of the Church from the 1950s to the early 1970s, when religious dogma about such subjects as birth control and homosexuality were treated as incontrovertible facts. After this time period, the Ecumenical Council changed the manner of teaching in Catholic schools, making it less strict in nature. Durang highly encourages theatres to set the play in the early 1980s, so
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