Sentences with phrase «as the nuns taught»

As the nuns taught me, «love the sinner, hate the sin.»

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Yet he is so far behind the heterodoxy curve as to be unaware that his shattering innovations are little more that the platitudes of New Age suburbia, and have long been superseded by those «weekend spirituality workshops» in which feminist nuns and retired orthodontists are taught how to deconstruct the New Testament and make pumpkin bread.»

For that matter, my teaching and preaching had never seriously floated the notion that people ought to be as devoted in body, mind and spirit as that little Albanian nun.

The words from Psalm 118 «Suscipe me, Domine» (receive me, Lord) are sung by those making profession as a monk or nun, and the teaching offered here on the nature of vows speaks to anyone who sees their human journey in terms of vocation.

That was something taught to me right from the beginning by my parents, my teachers, and the priests and nuns at the church I attended as a child.

We had the nicest most sincere nuns teaching us when I was a child — apparently I was one of the «lucky ones» as there are so many stories about the «mean old nuns» wrapping knuckles with rulers and more.

As a child I went to a catholic primary school, was taught by nuns, did the holy communion thing and all that.

The question these Religious Women really need to answer is do they really believe in What the Catholic Church Teaches, Affirms and Asks of them as Religious Nuns.

And many monks and nuns, in response to the gospel stories of Jesus» ministry, became active in the world, serving as missionaries to areas of Europe not yet Christian, caring for the poor, preaching and teaching.

The pope is the head of the Church, and if he thinks Catholic nuns, in America or anywhere else, are advocating positions that are against the teachings of the Church, he has the authority and the responsibility to investigate and as needed to terminate anti-Catholic activities in the Catholic Church.

God Bless the Catholic nuns who take care of the sick, feed the poor and teach us to love everyone as God has wished us to do.

Columnist Ellen Goodman took alarm when, at the announcement of his nomination, Thomas expressed gratitude to the nuns who had taught him as a child.

But neither More's relatively enlightened Catholicism, nor Erasmus's quiet following of the gospel, both within the bounds of the old institution, measured up to the excitement being felt by so many men and women as they read the New Testament, brooded on it, compared it with the teaching and life - style of the monks, nuns and priests they knew.

Marie and her fellow nuns teach Mo how to prepare one of their favorite soups with sausage and vegetables, and a pineapple cake that could be described as divine.

8:00 pm — IFC — Doubt An acting tour de force thanks to the presence of Philip Seymour Hoffman as a priest and Meryl Streep as the nun who accuses him of getting a bit too close to the children he teaches.

Founded in 1952, it began as a parish school that taught the children of its mostly white parishioners and was staffed by an order of nuns.

It took me to ashrams and temples throughout India and the Far East where I lived for months on end, and it gave me the opportunity to become exposed to the Tibetan Buddhist traditions as I taught English to Tibetan Buddhist nuns living in exile in North India.

«There have been the singing nun and the flying nun, but the hippest of all is Los Angeles's painting nun,» noted Newsweek in its 1967 cover story on Sister Corita Kent, the artist, activist, and teacher, whose first career survey, as The Saratogian reports, opened at the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore college this week.