Sentences with phrase «nun thing»

I'll do whatever you want (this nun thing), but please just make it very clear that this is really Your will.»

The «nun thing» is very complex.

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His op - ed says what priests or nuns tell parochial school pupils who ask about how God can let so many bad things happen here on earth.

In the ensuing furor, he opened up to radio host Charles Adler about his volunteer work during college at a nun - led centre for (mostly) gay men: «If the things they say about me are true, then explain to me why a young Jason Kenney spent his time washing bloody sheets at an AIDS hospice in San Francisco in the 1980s.»

I had hope for the new Pope with his emphasis on helping the poor (the importance of social justice is one of best things the Catholic Church gave to me even if I don't agree with most of their stands:)-RRB- but I don't much will change their stories of embezzlement, telling the Nuns on the Bus to settle down and the history of hiding and transferring pedos from church to church doesn't help them either.

I know ministers, priests, rabbis, and nuns who've worked at various things from cleaning houses to acting, to teaching to factory work.

It seems that the Pope wants these nuns to ignore the positive things they're doing so that they have enough time to concentrate on the negative things he wants to promote.

Seems to me they have enough moral decay going on without having to attack the only thing that still works, the nuns..

The nuns don't have the power to change things because the Church is not a democracy.

I guess this just goes to show even some nuns think there are more important things about life than just what religion thinks.

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.

Nuns on the bus, proved that doing the Right thing for the American People, doesn't have to collide with your faith, if you are doing what is best for all Americans, not the chosen few.

You know, the only thing really human about the Catholic Church are the nuns.

Yes, priests and nuns have done many bad things, but they have done much good as well.

Pope to nuns: You need to back off on the whole helping others thing and get back to our goal of bigotry and hate mongering.

If the Vatican refuses to compromise or let the nuns do what they think is the right thing to do, then the nuns should resign en masse and simply join the Episcopal Church.

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

Poor self - esteem, masochism, all the many ways in which the religion has burned these unhealthy things into their heads, otherwise they would not have gone to the organization to become a nun in the first place, I would guess... but each one is an individual first and foremost.

If I had it my way, the nuns who actually care about helping others would be running things.

You're much more likely to find a nun in a soup kitchen than an ivory tower, doing things that any human with a shred of empathy, religious or otherwise, would approve of.

My heart breaks that these nuns would do such a thing.

If a person wants to be a priest, monk or nun, the BE ONE and stop trying to have things both ways.

Anyway, this is the person our supposedly faithful Catholic nuns who only, according to Garry Wills, want to do good things like caring for the poor, if only that bullying, brutish, bad ol' Vatican would let them, have invited to lead them in their annual meeting.

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.

I have never seen a nun do any such thing.

Our own parents kept such things secret and would punish their child for telling them a priest, nun, or lay teacher assaulted them.

Pema Chödrön is an American - born Buddhist nun and the author of many spiritual classics, including When Things Fall Apart (Shambhala, 2000), and the new book, Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better: Wise Advice for Leaning into the Unknown (Sounds True, September 2015).

If you try to pay attention too much, your brain will drift and the next thing you know, werewolf nuns have shown up out of nowhere and the Pope has somehow pardoned all the werewolves in the world.

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.

A run - in with a nun, however, helps him to put things into perspective.

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.

Because as Lois Smith's nun ponders: aren't love and attention the same thing?

And as for breakout performances, we could probably have populated half this list with names from the show — Eve Hewson is destined for next - big - thing ingenue status; Cara Seymour is genius as the abortionist nun Sister Harriet, especially sparring with Chris Sullivan's boorish ambulanceman; Juliet Rylance is similarly excellent as the patrician liberal Cornelia and of course the show offers established star Clive Owen his best role ever.

One of the things that I believe will surprise many, is the fact that most of the game you're actually not moving your character, but instead the game has you on rails going from point A to point B without even using the nun - chuck.

Following a nun - in - training in the 1960s who discovers that she's really Jewish, and sets out on a road trip with her only living relative, an alcoholic aunt, it's undoubtedly indebted to Bresson in look and feel but still manages to be its own thing, rich in character and flavor, proving unexpectedly funny, sexy even, and featuring two star - making performances from Agata Trzebuchowska and Agata Kulesza.

We grew up on opposite sides of the country (he in New York and I in Oregon), but we both grew up Catholic, in the»50s, and that meant one thing if nothing else: nuns.

She also sent Maldonado a book, When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chödrön, an American Buddhist nun.

That wasn't as bad as the other thing that happened, which is that someone walked into the wrong bedroom one night and tried to climb into bed with a nun.

Piety was one fo the rare things which the nuns at school approved of in a child; more than that, it seemed to be something she had no choice about.

Touma just wants to keep a low profile, but when a nun named Index stumbles into his life, things get more complicated and dangerous than ever!

My mother used to tell the story that I wanted to be several things growing up... including a nun and a secret agent.

The Wii - Wheel which came bundled with every copy of the game only made things worse and not even the Wii Remote + Nun - Chuk combo could save the day.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work perfectly, and you'll find yourself not being able to select a nun properly when things get too hectic, and when a nun isn't given something to do, they'll just stand there doing nothing, unless an enemy gets right up in her face.

The second part places you into a small arena, having your nuns shoot out constantly appearing skeletons, vampires, werewolves, and little annoying things that can burn, freeze or damage you.