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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.

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be unaware that his shattering innovations are little more that the platitudes of New Age suburbia, and have long been superseded by those «weekend spirituality workshops» in which feminist nuns and retired orthodontists are taught how to deconstruct the New Testament and make pumpkin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

The witness said he was regularly stripped and beaten with a belt by around six different nuns and cried as he told the inquiry one of the Catholic Sisters called him a «mum killer».

«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.

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.

A Vatican magazine has denounced the treatment of nuns as indentured servants by cardinals and bisho... More

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.

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

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

Almost 14,000 pensioners have been conned by fraudsters dressing up as nuns and priests in Italy in... More

A nun broke a young girl's arm as she reacted to discovering the child was being sexually abused by a priest, an inquiry has heard.

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.

«We have made so many appeals (to stop self - immolations), but they are still doing it,» said Sangay, the political successor of the Dalai Lama, as the number of self - immolations by monks, nuns and others swelled to 68 since March 2011.

By treating the babies not just as sources of fear but as calls to love, the nuns renew their devotion and create a new community.

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?

As to the nuns, I really don't understand, beyond the money thing, why they'd even bother staying in a cult that was written by and for misogynists.

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.

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.

Although it's Hollywood, a touch schmaltzy, etc., there can be a kind of wholesomeness, bigness, spunkiness and engagement of life as it is by savvy nuns — as played by the great Roz Russell.

CHI St. Vincent Infirmary began as a 10 - bed «charity hospital» in 1888 by the bishop of Little Rock, five nuns, seven physicians and Catholic philanthropists Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hager.

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.

So formidable is Sister Aloysius, the principal of the St. Nicholas Church School, whom the kids, her Catholic subordinates, fear, as evidenced by an early scene where the abbess» voice, like an electric charge, jolts the slumbering parishioners into a comically exaggerated alertness during Father Flynn's sermon, that we believe this woman, this nun, is all - powerful.

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.

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 other day «Game of Thrones» star Charlotte Hope was cast as Sister Victoria, a nun haunted by a demonic presence in...

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.

There's an interesting character study here of an insecure, lonely man, whose ego, daddy issues, and complicated feelings about being raised by a nun played by Diane Keaton — oh yeah, that's a thing — contribute to an inferiority complex that doesn't just define his ascension to power, but threatens the world's largest religious institution as we know it.

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.

Thoughtful and generous, it's that rare ensemble film that gives its side characters enough room to breathe and grow: Two romantic interests — played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges and Call Me by Your Name's Timothée Chalamet, both superb — as well as an upbeat nun (the legendary Lois Smith) stand out in this loving ode to mothers, daughters and the girlhood towns we never fully leave behind.

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.

Finally, Twilight Time has five releases this week: Robert Rossen's «Alexander the Great,» the sword - and - sandal epic about the titular hero; Anatole Litvak's «Anastasia,» a historical epic about a Russian businessman who tries to pass of an imposter as the Grand Duchess Anastasia; Otto Preminger's «Exodus,» about the founding of the state of Israel; Ralph Nelson's «Lilies of the Field,» about an African American traveling handyman who encounters a group of nuns who think he's been sent by God to build their chapel; and finally Richard Fleischer's «10 Rillington Place,» a crime drama about the serial killer John Christie.

Thoughtful and generous, it's that rare ensemble film that gives its side characters enough room to breathe and grow: Two romantic interests — played by Lucas Hedges and Timothée Chalamet, both superb — as well as an upbeat nun (the legendary Lois Smith) stand out in this loving ode to mothers, daughters and the girlhood towns we never fully leave behind.

Set in the Tang Dynasty (June 618 — June 907), the films will star frequent Hou collaborator Shu Qi (Three Times, Millennium Mambo), as a young woman who is trained in secret by a Taoist nun to become a ruthless assassin but is then asked to kill her lover (synopsis by Screen Daily).

The mid -»60s were a grim time for Hollywood both artistically and economically, as reflected by a truly lacklustre brace of Best Picture nominees at the 1966 awards: alongside Robert Wise's excruciatingly cheerful nuns «n» Nazis romp were ranged the likes of «Doctor Zhivago», «Darling» and something called «A Thousand Clowns».

Not bad for a movie characterized by Variety critic Peter Debruge, after its Telluride Film Festival premiere, as «the sort of joyless art film one might expect Polish nuns living under the clutches of 1960s communism to appreciate.»

Based on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, the raunchy tale was written and directed by Jeff Baena, as Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie and Kate Micucci in turn play foul - mouthed nuns who can't help but prey upon the hired hand that is Dave Franco.

However he makes an error of judgment early on in the story by exposing the nuns as vulgar, using the f - word freely and taking their frustrations out on a gardener whom they accuse of ogling them, beating him to a pulp.

The first is Ralph Nelson's Lilies of the Field (1963), a film which has been somewhat overshadowed by the legacy of Poitier's performance as the wandering handyman Homer Smith who gets buffaloed into building a chapel for a group of East German nuns in the Arizona desert.

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.

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.

It began in 1981 as the result of a collaborative effort between Sister Pauline, a Dominican nun, and the late Dr. Leo Bustad, former chair of Washington State University's veterinary program, who believed that inmate rehabilitation could be facilitated by the human - animal bond.

Residencial Madres Dominicanas: This isn't your traditional hostel, as it is located on the school grounds of Colegio Martín de Porres and is run by Dominican Nuns.

Olga Grotova's films hook us into the cyclic calm of nuns who look as if they've stepped out of a Helmut Newton photo; Nika Neelova turns the topography of a shucked - off exoskeleton hanging below into a coolly folded room above; Yelena Popova provides both apparently evaporated portraits, as from the deep past, and an empty cut - out awaiting future faces; undeterred by their lack of tymbals to flex and wings to flick, Neelova and Mira Calix team up to imitate both male and female cicadas in the corridor, crossing sex and species boundaries and referencing the mythical transformation of people into the insects when first introduced to and overpowered by music.

Rossi, who spent several years as a Catholic nun before becoming an artist, was a member of the Chicago Imagists, an influential group defined by their common interest in non-Western and popular imagery, a dedicated pursuit of vivid and distorted figurative work, and a fondness for pop imagery and wordplay.

A priest at the Ann Arbor temple, Haju Sunim (aka Linda Murray), explained that Dumpster diving is actually a modern variant of an ancient tradition by which Buddhist «patched - robe monks» and nuns reclaimed clothing, sometimes from corpses, and would repair garments repeatedly to extend their life as much as possible.

Judges have routinely invoked the ministerial exception to dismiss lawsuits against religious employers by rabbis, ministers, cantors, nuns and priests — those «whose ministry is a core expression of religious belief for that congregation,» as Mr. McNicholas put it.

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined «Obamacare: Supreme Court hands nuns temporary victory on contraceptives; The Supreme Court blocked enforcement of Obamacare's contraceptive mandate and said the nuns were not required to use the procedure set up by the government as an accommodation for religious groups.»