Sentences with phrase «as a nun in»

He decided, after a few days of meetings with journalists and scientists, that dietary fat was the villain, and that refined carbohydrates were as innocent as a nun in a convent.

A girl is forced to take vows as a nun in Jacques Rivette's 1966 drama, based on the novel by Denis Diderot, which sees the new convert treated in radically different ways from three different mother superiors — each one more surprising than the last.

Karen Armstrong spent seven years as a nun in the Catholic Society of the Holy Child Jesus during the 1960s and later wrote a tell - all book, Through the Narrow Gate (1982) that bemoaned the restrictive life.

Despite the recent flurry of Peru - related news — which will obviously & inevitably lead to a new placing — to date, the company's got as much to show for itself as a nun in a brothel.

Not exact matches

As she converses with nuns, spies and backpackers throughout the Balkans and Middle East, she discovers understandings of the sacred in the most unexpected of encounters.

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.

These nuns are lucky the Pope isn't burning them as witches, because that's exactly what was done in the past before secular governments reigned the church in.

you have remember that it was a women that led us to sin and most of them have this same flawed character and the nuns know this as this is in Torah.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

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be unaware that his shattering innovations are little more that the platitudes of New Age suburbia, and have long been superseded by those «weekend spirituality workshops» in which feminist nuns and retired orthodontists are taught how to deconstruct the New Testament and make pumpkin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

Charles Krauthammer called it an «accounting gimmick,» as did Paul Rahe of Hillsdale College, writing for National Review Online, where he said Obama's compromise was a «farce,» a «snare and a delusion» designed to permit «bishops, priests, and nuns to save face while, in fact, paying for the contraception and abortifacients that the insurance companies will be required to provide.»

These nuns are lucky the Pope doesn't burn them as witches, because that's exactly what they would have done in the past.

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 nuns stared disapprovingly as I slipped in among my more punctual classmates in our assigned pews.

Around Agatha's moral axis revolve, frequently in erratic orbit, the members of Staggerford's closely knit Catholic community: French Lopat, the Vietnam vet who scratches out a living as a fake Indian for the tourist trade; Lillian, Agatha's best friend, who gets her news from supermarket tabloids; Imogene, Lillian's daughter, a liar and backstabber; Sister Judith, a New Age nun who imagines the Creation as God laying a giant egg.

Two of the children later died in the influenza epidemic of 1919/20 and the third, Lucia, lived on to a great age as a Carmelite nun, dying in 2005.

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.

After that came ten years labouring as a parish priest of Prouille, a period of little success in gaining converts from Catharism, although he founded a small community of nuns who wanted to remain Catholic while living a life of comparable simplicity as they would have had as Cathars.

So, I pray that as I grow in my faith and as my children experience their own challenges... be it that one chooses to be a pastor or my daughter chooses a life of servitude as a nun that they will also always know that the Lord gives them the freedom to make changes and seek him in whatever way they need to without compromising the fact that he died for us to save us.

In his movies, Woody frequently uses priests and ministers, rabbis and nuns as comic ploys.

She explored Catholicism while being mentored by a nun in her neighborhood and converted as an adult.

And I say this as a «lapsed Catholic» who was in the convent to become a nun when I was young.

At his death on April 2, 2005, between the thousands packed into St. Peter's Square, and the group of doctors, nuns, priests, and bishops in his bedroom, John Paul ended his papacy as far from alone as one can be.

instead of living in the dark ages as the church demands, the nuns want to live in the 1700's.

Using biographical vignettes (with photos) of monks, abbots, bishops, nuns, and «fools for Christ,» its author, Archimandrite Tikhon, paints a powerful picture of the courage and cleverness Orthodox monastics deployed to survive Soviet persecutions» even as it shatters the stereotype of monks as dour men dressed in black who never enjoy themselves and are ignorant of and indifferent to the outside world.

I have every respect to those angels and consider bringing such subject up as disrespect for what those do to our world with their kindness... Those nuns and popes were once my teachers in the kindergarden in Aden Colony of Southern Arabia although I was considered as Muslim from Muslim parents... so you can say I hold for them great respect although we are from different religions beliefs...!

Standing in front of the United Methodist Building near the U.S. Capitol, the «Nuns on the Bus,» as they have billed themselves, rallied an excited crowd with stories from the road and a call to action for future protests to protect social programs.

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..

We will repress this long standing pestilence to its roots... In all the Empire more than four thousand six hundred monasteries are destroyed, two hundred and sixty thousand five hundred monks and nuns are returning to the world, both (men and women) to be received as tax paying householders.

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.

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Another influential sixth - century monastic, Caesarea of Arles, wrote, «The souls not only of nuns, but of all men and women, if they will guard chastity of the body and virginity of the heart... should not doubt that they are spouses of Christ,» and he put forward the spiritual marriage to Jesus in Heaven as reason for remaining celibate while on earth.

As assistant novice mistress, she was able to form the young postulant nuns in her own Little Way, encouraging them to respond to God's infinite love for each of us.

In 1973, at the age of 42, after the premature death of her husband, Chiara found her vocation as a Franciscan nun and exchanged her riding breeches for a life of poverty, chastity and obedience.

From throwing money defaced with words such as «love» away on Wall Street, to helping nuns pour blood on battleships, or handing out food to the homeless in a park (an illegal act in his city, Philadelphia), Claiborne's Christianity is not for the squeamish, but it has inspired many outside of the Church to take another look at the faith.

My favorite proffered solution to that puzzle comes in a passage from the fourteenth - century French nun and mystic, Marguerite of Oingt, who wrote that «the saints will be completely within their Creator as the fish within the sea: they will drink to satiety, without getting tired and without in any way diminishing the water... [They] will drink and eat the great sweetness of God.

The man, now in his late 60s, said the nuns who ran the home were being unfairly portrayed as «monsters and out - and - out child beaters».

Sister Marie E. Thornton, a 63 year - old nun, embezzled over $ 850,000 from Iona College starting in 1999, while functioning as its vice president of finance, the statement said.

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.

After the pope departed the nuns wanted to place the sacred symbol inside the gate of the camp as a symbol of God's love... however, The Jewish community was in an up roar... for they felt that in this place God was not!

even the nuns that have been on here complaining, they want power as well, sad really because the doctrine that they believe in is all about being humble.

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.

Assisting a beggar at the door of the Nunciature (even if it was Corporal Hitler) is hardly tantamount to bankrolling a political activist and in any case the post First World War charitable activities of Archbishop Pacelli in Berlin and throughout Germany were the precursor to the establishment of what would eventually become the Institute of Religious Works (aka «Vatican Bank») under the direct supervision of the nun who ran Pacelli's household before and after his election as pope.

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.

(Oddly enough, it can actually be seen as a strong statement in support of the death penalty since it is through the confluence of the nun's care to the murderer, along with the imminence of his death, that De Rocher is finally brought to the self «recognition that, in turn, makes his redemption possible.)

An old nun, old and as white as a lizard, used to pray in Sacred Heart Church when I was a boy.

Yet nuns and other women who insist that they have a call to the priesthood and use their pain as evidence for an authentic interior call from God are, in fact, using the protean politics of pain and not Catholic theology to explain their experiences.

Ambassador Mehmet Nun Ezen, a Turkish diplomat who serves as consul general here, said in an interview that 42 Turkish citizens were in detention in the New York region, down from 58 after Sept. 11.

Selecting Terrence McNally as his librettist, Heggie chose the story of the relationship between a nun and a convicted killer drawn from Sister Helen Prejean's 1993 book Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the U.S.

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.