Sentences with phrase «as a nun goes»

As indeed was Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski's impeccably photographed black - and - white Polish drama in which a young woman who's about to take her vows as a nun goes to the city to visit her decadent aunt and makes an astonishing discovery about her past.

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Volunteers, including Swiss Guards and nuns, went around the city in a minibus to distribute them as a gesture to mark Pope Francis» 78th birthday on Wednesday.

As for the story, the nuns and the papal bureaucrats will come to an understanding... I think both have been to arrogant to listen to the concerns of the other and, since they got their dirty laundry aired, they are going to have to resolve their differences.

«The opponents of enforcing immigration law and supporters of amnesty for illegal immigrants are using this as an emotional issue, raising this phony idea that a nun ladling out soup to an illegal alien is going to be wrestled to the ground by a SWAT team,» he said.

Ought public money to go to a church to pay for the services of its nuns as public - school teachers?

and then they are excommunicated and the fight is over... this is a hopeless fight especially when religion is involved... they either fight for rights and lose it all (and essentially go to hell) or give in and listen to their religious leaders... I do not believe in what they do and could care less really but they are in a no win situation and they as nuns should not be worried about birth control or anything of the such... they took the vows..

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

I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.

I attendend school, college as my parents and children, all Roman Catholics, I stop going for a while because the nuns in my church were like this rabid feminists.

We muslims don't call our women: Bitches, hores... and the majority of muslim women actually have the choice to choose to wear the veil (if you go to a Catholic church women are asked to wear the veil... nuns are fully covered... even Marry the mother of Jesus used to cover and that is because these women know they are diamonds and you have to really deserve her to be able to see more and that is only gonna be her husband, and parents... If you have a precious and very expensive diamond in your possession don't tell me you would leave it outside of your house but you would leave your trash outside of your house... same thing with women especially and by the way this apply to men as well in Islam... A woman actually is the queen of her household, and when they are so aware of their status within her community, as more like a mother, she is committed to her husband, kids and parents exclusively... she is busy taking care of her loved ones and enjoys it and happy so why you ask her to show you her cleavage if she doesn't think you deserve her... Muslim women are not any different than all women, they only like to wear the veil and not show their beauty to you... what?

One of the stories is as follows, much abbreviated save in the verses: a nun, Kisa - Gotami, or Gotami, the slender, went one day into the dark forest to spend the day.

Sister Berchmans, a native of County Clare — one of the most westerly spots in Europe — had left rural Ireland as a young nun to go and work in Pakistan.

These movies and a few others show that Whoopi was a serious actress when she did «The Color Purple», and «Ghost», and we really lost her when she started playing second hand characters such as nuns («Sister Act» sequels), and playing off the radar «Star Trek» characters not to mention we totally lost her when she went from acting into the daytime talk show circuit of garbage.

Shot in a boxy aspect ratio, in rich, complex black and white, the film isn't simply stylistically arresting, however; these first few moments find us in a quiet cloister of a Polish convent in the 1960s as a group of novice nuns silently, piously, go about restoring a statue of Christ, returning it to its plinth in the convent's snowy grounds.

Dragonfly, for all its intimations of totemic spirituality and faux religiosity (going so far as to provide Linda Hunt, Dragonfly's third Oscar - winner, a walk - on as a homuncular nun), is ultimately a vapid shuck - and - jive with all the depth of a traveling medicine show.

It's difficult not to gain at least a smidgen of pleasure from seeing Plaza — finally finding her big - screen footing with this and pitch - black Instagram comedy Ingrid Goes West — as a foul - mouthed nun causing mayhem.

As they stand face - to - face and Cathleen announces she is going to become a nun and proclaims «I'm in love with God», we all share the parent's pain as a mother stares back incredulously, knowing full well a 17 year old is incapable of making such a decision on her owAs they stand face - to - face and Cathleen announces she is going to become a nun and proclaims «I'm in love with God», we all share the parent's pain as a mother stares back incredulously, knowing full well a 17 year old is incapable of making such a decision on her owas a mother stares back incredulously, knowing full well a 17 year old is incapable of making such a decision on her own.

Applications are dropping and costs are up as independent schools wage a facilities arms race and try to deal with escalating technology and staffing costs — at Catholic schools, because the number of nuns is down 72 percent since the mid 1960s, and they have gone from comprising most of the teachers to fewer than 2 percent of them, requiring the hiring of higher - paid lay teachers.

On his birthday — or rather, the day the nuns designate as his birthday — William and the other orphans are taken to the historical Moore Theatre, where William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of Willow Frost.