Sentences with phrase «by nuns in»

Imagine contracting swine flu while traveling, flying President Clinton around the world in a private jet or getting kidnapped by nuns in Puerto Rico.

The story is about Enza Ravanelli, poor but happy and devoted to her family, and Ciro Lazzari, an orphan who is raised by nuns in a convent.

Incidentally, Thomas was educated by nuns in parochial schools and graduated from Holy Cross.

An Indian priest has been kidnapped by terrorists who murdered 16 people at a care home run by nuns in Yemen.

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

Not exact matches

In this film, the pastor and a nun, played by Ingrid Bergman, attempt to save a run - down parochial school on the verge of being closed down.

Pence signed it into law in a closed - press ceremony at the statehouse, surrounded by nuns, monks, and right - wing lobbyists.

What the priest did was in direct conflict with everything I was taught by two different orders of nuns and more than one Jesuit priest.

When the host agrees by noting that Madonna had used Jesus in her concerts (possibly referring to her infamous nun striptease on MTV), Kanye replies much more appropriately: «Michelangelo did it.»

If you read the book on which the film is based, you can see that the facts damn Irish clericalism well enough without the added polemics displayed in a made - up speech by a basically fictional bitterly anti-erotic nun.

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.

The man said he was sexually abused by a nun and another member of staff and beaten for bedwetting and not eating his food at Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark, Lanarkshire.

Indeed, the «battle» that resulted in the killing of hundreds of thousands of priests and nuns was not forgotten, except by Western apologists for Soviet tyranny.

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be unaware that his shattering innovations are little more that the platitudes of New Age suburbia, and have long been superseded by those «weekend spirituality workshops» in which feminist nuns and retired orthodontists are taught how to deconstruct the New Testament and make pumpkin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

Fr Tom Uzhannalil was kidnapped by gunmen in the Yemeni city of Aden earlier this month, after they stormed a care home run by nuns and murdered 16 of them.

in addressing the nuns at St. Patrick's cathedral: Hmmm, shall we count the ways nuns would profit by not be subject to theologically and historically flawed restrictions imposed by old white men:

The shroud, which bears the image of a face that some Christians say is Jesus», was restored eight years ago to remove a patchwork repair done by 16th - century nuns after the cloth was damaged in a fire.

The witness also said he was physically and sexually abused while in care and believed he had killed his mother after being told so by a nun, not finding out this was untrue until his mid-20s.

In particular, NETWORK, a group founded by 47 Catholic nuns that speaks out on social justice issues, went on a bus tour around the country to protest the Ryan budget.

Credit your father's will, not some stupid prayer... my sister - in - law was prayed over by a nun... She told us my s - i - l would live.

Many of the writers on spirituality were directing their thoughts to monks and nuns, but we notice a surprising moderation in their remarks («reasonable distress», «little by little»).

The Catholic church has been doing a great service to the poor, needy and the underpriveleged and nuns have been leading the way in those life changing efforts for centuries.These women have already set a great example by actively participating and leading in activities of the Catholic church.

By 2007, the Missionaries of Charity had established 600 missions, schools and homes in 120 nations and had thousands of nuns working for it.

The Legion needed more, demanding that the directors cut ten scenes, including a flashback in which one of the nuns (played by Deborah Kerr) recalls her romantic life before discovering her vocation.

On Easter Sunday, I was able to sit in prayer for a while at the Shrine run by sweet Italian nuns on top of the Mountain of the Beatitudes, the most famous of Sermons.

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.

Plenty of examples of that happening in Central and South America - priests and nuns murdered by fascist death squads.

He invited Lady Smith to make various findings in fact, including that many children were deprived of affection at Smyllum, that some were forced to eat, verbally abused, humiliated for wetting the bed and that children of all ages were assaulted by nuns and staff.

That is, we may believe that the best possible person is a soft - hearted nun who cares for orphaned pigeons, but in Singer's eyes, the rather disagreeable cur who cheats at checkers, ignores his children, and is rude to waitresses may be the more ethical person if by giving away lots of money he saves lives.

Elizabeth observes: «Most women religious would admit that, in the quarter century since Vatican II, the rather short - lived euphoria of the «nun in the world» has been replaced by a long - suffering, quiet frustration at the lurking possibility of permanent extinction.

I was educated in Irish schools by nuns when I was very young and some of those women were sadistic beasts.

When it finally opened, it was staffed by an army of nuns, kind and stern, young and old, all in black.

Lest we think all martyrdom is at the hand of right - wing states, we do well to remember the fate of those nuns whose death at the hands of the French Revolution is chronicled by Poulenc in his opera Dialogues of the Carmelites.

in Ireland there was systamatic physical and sexual abuse of chldren on a wide scale by those in institutons run by priests, nuns and brothers the very people who were ment to be representative of God's love!

The male leaders of the church have shown once again just how threatened they are by the nuns, and women in general.

For decades, the mystery surrounding the death of Sister Cesnik has haunted officials in Baltimore, but recent details — some uncovered this year in a new journalistic investigation — point to some extremely disturbing possibilities: The young nun may have been murdered because she was preparing to expose a horrific pattern of sexual abuse and even sex trafficking perpetrated by priests and involving law enforcement.

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He said: «Following Boko Haram's abduction of three priests and a nun in the border region by Boko Haram, missionaries are now accompanied by armed soldiers when they celebrate Sunday Mass there.

A Florida nun has helped the clean - up efforts following Hurricane Irma by taking a chainsaw to downed trees while dressed in her full habit.

Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millenia by Jo Ann Kay McNamara Harvard University Press, 751 pages, $ 35

The Clewer Initiative is being funded by the Clewer Sister, an Anglican order of Augustinian nuns which was founded in 1852 to help marginalised younger women.

Ms Tolmie - McGrane told the inquiry she approached police officers visiting Smyllum on two occasions to tell them «the nuns are hurting me» but was «marched back in» to the institution on both occasions and then beaten by a nun.

raised a catholic, spent nine years in a catholic school... hardest i've ever been hit was by a third grade nun..

The nuns taught us in Catholic school that all Catholic priests were hand picked by God.

While accounts of rebel soldiers going door to door in the Christian quarter of Homs in March 2012 and driving them out of the city were initially met with scepticism, by the end of 2013 no one could doubt the intentional targeting of Christians, after three Christian men were shot dead for refusing to convert to Islam and a group of nuns were kidnapped after Maaloula fell to Islamist groups within the opposition.

In a statement afterward, the nuns said, «The meeting had been requested by the LCWR to address what the conference considered deficiencies in the process and the results of the doctrinal assessment of the organization released by the CDF in April.&raquIn a statement afterward, the nuns said, «The meeting had been requested by the LCWR to address what the conference considered deficiencies in the process and the results of the doctrinal assessment of the organization released by the CDF in April.&raquin the process and the results of the doctrinal assessment of the organization released by the CDF in April.&raquin April.»

St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, used to be run by nuns, and it remains the best and most famous hospital in Ireland.

A portion of American Nuns represented by the LCWR advocates for heterodoxy which is why they are in trouble.

In Cleveland, two shelters for battered women have been staffed by Catholic nuns and professional social workers; support has come from churches, private donations, block grants and a special surcharge on Ohio marriage licenses.

In Ohio, a group called Catholics United released a letter this month signed by 36 Cincinnati clergy and lay leaders, including 11 Catholic nuns, denouncing allegations that Driehaus» healthcare vote begat government - funded abortion.