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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.

The Curb Your Enthusiasm creator will dress in drag as the nun who runs the orphanage where the young Stooges grow up.

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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.

Dear Reality; Speaking as one who has had many, many clergy serving the needs of many people over a century I must take issue with you on your «no clerics, no nuns, no bibles» etc..

They even brought defrocked priests and nuns into their fold, as well as disgruntled Christians who bemoaned the declining morals of their old churches.

As a Catholic I might give some consideration to the comments of professors, priests, nuns, et al. who parade their Catholicism if any can show they came foward to critic Georgetown University when it bowed to President Obama when he decreed a religious symbol must be covered before he would speak there.

Some are unknown, such as the Jewish drycleaner from his neighborhood, a former nun now living as a man, and a young man he ministered to who later shot himself, and others are more famous, like Venerable Solanus Casey, Mother Angelica, Cardinals Cooke and O'Connor, and Frank and Maisie Ward.

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.

There were three types of Man described: ones who chose celibacy to dedicate themselves to God's service, such as monks, priests, or nuns; those castrated by others, these are traditional eunuchs; and those who were «born that way.»

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.

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

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.

Among his correspondents were nuns who moonlighted as literary critics and the devout Irish Catholic poet and art historian Thomas MacGreevy.

Gertrude of Helfta was a German Benedictine nun who wrote, mostly for the benefit of her younger monastic sisters, as the result of the experiencing of numerous visions.

The result is a spiritually arid isolation, which is far different from the joyful work of contemplative priests and nuns, who value the world, as God's creation, and believe that quiet, redemptive prayer is the best way to improve it.

If they are concerned about public welfare by people who could conceal weapons beneath their clothing as was posited by people on this topic, nun habits fit the bill.

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».

The antinomian monster at the center of this play is a prolific murderer and rapist, who has murdered his own father and is laying plans to rape several nuns; he is also a thief, a blasphemer, and» almost as bad» a philosopher.

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.

There is a long tradition of Christians - from priests to nuns to laypeople - who have chosen celibacy as a higher calling toward spiritual fulfillment.

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.

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Many of us can think of monks and nuns (as well as of others who are not vocationally celibate but nonetheless actually so) who have been enabled to live fully and healthily, rechanneling their sexual drive toward other modes of expression that can make them loving, concerned, caring, and deeply devoted and committed people.

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.

And as a good Catholic nun, I'm sure the sister who wrote the book would have been happy to put a forward in the book Clarifying that issue.

As reported in the London Independent, even the nun who survived the nursing home incident has been turned over to local militia.

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.

He waxed eloquent about the nuns who did not have true vocation to celibacy — and the monks: «Unless she is in a high and unusual state of grace a young woman can do without a man as little as she can do without eating, drinking, sleeping or other natural requirements.

Philomena traces the heart - wrenching journey of a devout Irish woman (played by the incomparable Judi Dench) who sets out to find her long lost son, whom she was forced to give up for adoption as a teenager by nuns who kept her like a prisoner in a convent full of other unwed mothers in the 1950s.

She described the contradictions in evidence between the survivors and the various nuns who described Smyllum as a «happy place» as «completely bewildering».

The first example of one of these «holy autopsies» came in 1308, when nuns conducted a dissection of the body of Chiara of Montefalco, an abbess who would be canonized as a saint in 1881.

It's a good rate, and as Mulembakani and his INRB entourage are waved through to meet with the nuns who operate the facility, dozens of ailing patients lie on mats outside the gates, begging for the copay, on the threshold between the squalor outside and the orderly hospital wards.

The obvious example of this is nuns, brothers and priests who take vows that say they will not indulge in sexual pleasures as part of their daily lives.

The role of mental attitude and mood as a risk factor of Alzheimer's was proved by David A. Snowdon, professor of neurology at the University of Kentucky who reviewed autobiographical essays that had been written by the young nuns.

And while We Happy Few may imitate the Bioshock series in some ways, they do differ in the gameplay department as permadeath is a foundation of the experience unlike in Bioshock where death was more of a temporary slap on the wrist by a nun who could not be bothered to put any real effort into her swing.

Within weeks, he's picking Pita up from school (when one of the nuns there asks whether he ever sees «the hand of God» in what he does, he admits, «I'm the sheep that got lost»), coaching her at swimming («There's no such thing as tough, there's trained and untrained»), helping her with homework, and looking after her new dog, a present from dad, who's feeling guilty about the frequent, unspecified trips he takes with mom.

He reluctantly takes on a human interest story that entails him helping Irishwoman Judi Dench locate her illegitimate son, who was sold off to an American couple as a baby over 50 years ago by the nuns running the convent in which she was confined at age 18, à la The Magdalene Sisters.

Bonnie Aarons, who originated the demon nun in The Conjuring 2, is back as the sinister sister.

Adapted from stories drawn from Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval book «The Decameron,» the film draws humor from the tension between its setting and the way the characters speak and interact as a story unfolds about a fugitive servant (Dave Franco) who pretends to be a deaf - mute to be taken in by a convent that includes three young nuns (Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Kate Micucci), each dealing with personal crises of their own.

The film, set in the early 1960s, tells the story of a young woman, Sister Cathleen (Qualley), who starts to question her Catholic faith as she trains to become a nun.

Even just earlier this summer, Plaza portrayed the Plaza - est version of a nun in The Little Hours — an extremely loose adaptation of The Decameron — as the foul - mouthed, sexually deviant Fernanda, who has a witchy secret and is out for blood.

Comeback master Mickey Rourke took home the belt for Best Actor for his gritty, raw portrayal of a washed up professional wrestler who can't give up the spotlight in Fox Searchlight's The Wrestler, while Meryl Streep was awarded her first WAFCA award by winning Best Actress for her turn as a strict Catholic school nun seeking the truth in Miramax's Doubt.

King's humor and absurdist instincts are winning, from a Mr. Bean - by - way - of - digital - effects scene that finds Paddington taking a disastrous part - time job as a barber's assistant to the various shenanigans of the villain, Buchanan, who scours the city for treasure disguised in his old theater costumes, leading Paddington's friends to pin the crimes on a purported gang that includes a nun, a medieval knight, and the Great Expectations character Abel Magwitch.

Ida (PG - 13 for mature themes, sexuality and smoking) Skeleton - out - of - the - closet drama, set in Poland in 1962, about an orphan (Agata Trzebuchowska) raised in a Catholic convent who learns that she was born Jewish just as she's set to take her vows as a nun.

Quvenzhané Wallis is attached to star as the orphan Annie, with Cameron Diaz portraying Agatha Hannigan, the mean - spirited nun who runs the orphanage Annie was raised in, before Daddy Warbucks (Jamie Foxx) takes her in.

We don't really know much about the film at the moment, but we do know that Demian Bichir has been cast as a priest named Father Burke who is dispatched by Rome to investigate the mysterious death of a nun.

The Nun, New Line's spinoff of «The Conjuring 2,» stars Demian Bichir as a priest, Taissa Farmiga as a nun, and Bonnie Arrons, who is reprising her role from the second Conjuring movNun, New Line's spinoff of «The Conjuring 2,» stars Demian Bichir as a priest, Taissa Farmiga as a nun, and Bonnie Arrons, who is reprising her role from the second Conjuring movnun, and Bonnie Arrons, who is reprising her role from the second Conjuring movie.