Sentences with phrase «by the nuns of»

They claim that the material tested was taken from a portion of the cloth that had been repaired by the nuns of Chambery Chapel after the fire of 1532, so the contaminated sample gives a false reading for the date of the shroud.

My own grandmother, a lefty, was forced to learn to write with her opposite hand by the nuns of her Catholic school.

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.

There have also been many cases of nuns and aspiring nuns being assaulted by priests, even becoming pregnant and forced to face abortions.

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.

Many of the nuns I know were completely seduced by it, to the point of rebelling against any sort of discipline.

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.

These nuns obviously don't want to be Catholics anymore, except that they like being taken care of by Church funds.

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be unaware that his shattering innovations are little more that the platitudes of New Age suburbia, and have long been superseded by those «weekend spirituality workshops» in which feminist nuns and retired orthodontists are taught how to deconstruct the New Testament and make pumpkin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

There are some nuns on the south side of Chicago who were dealing with kids who didn.t know their fathers and quite often were being brought up by their grandmas.

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.

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 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».

An early conclusion by researchers indicates that nuns subjected tot he study were indeed experiencing interaction with something outside of their own physiology.

«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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

He has positive memories of growing up and being taught by the nuns and priests at the Catholic school he attended.

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.

Entering the Old City at the historic Jaffa Gate, Demetrios was ceremonially welcomed by the bishops and priests of the Greek Orthodox Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, Israeli government and municipal officials, a police honor guard, six bemedaled consuls - general, representatives of the Roman Catholic, Armenian, Syrian Orthodox and Ethiopian churches, two uniformed Dragomen, a baton tossing drum - major, the Arab Orthodox Boy Scout drum and bugle corps, uniformed schoolgirls, scores of monks, nuns, reporters, cameramen and a smattering of curious tourists.

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.

I hope the good Sisters and Nuns stick to their guns and cease to take the scrutiny and questioning by the male - dominated leadership of the Church.

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!

According to the report prepared by the Board of Worship, there were 4600 monasteries, 40,000 hermitages (places of retreat), 260,500 monks and nuns.

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

The opera is based on history; there was a convent of nuns who were executed by the leftist revolution for being enemies of the people.

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.

I have read some accounts where the children were cleaned up and given first aid by the nuns after being raped, so some of them knew exactly what was going on and were forced to remain silent for various reasons.

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.

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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.

This poet wonders what sense can be made of the death by drowning of five nuns on their way to a mission field, but his first major poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland (1876), shows his determination to overcome his doubts:

«If it came to someone really misbehaving, and I mean really misbehaving, by language or fighting, then she (one of the nuns) would have had to deal out one or two of the strap,» he said.

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.»