Sentences with phrase «of young nuns»

I watched a group of young nuns going from market stall to market stall chanting and holding out a begging bowl.

Sheila Roberts: Writer - director Maggie Betts hits all the right notes tonally and stylistically as she explores the experiences of a young nun in training who comes to question her faith, sexuality and spiritual purpose during an era of radical church reform.

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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.

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.

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.

Large numbers of new vocations for women today come from Africa, where young women choose becoming a nun as a way to escape crushing poverty and to get an education.

The average age of nuns is quite high and not many new young converts as late.

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.

The median age of nuns is 70, the number of new priests is dropping like a stone and the internet contiues to expose young minds to the utter garbage of Catholicisim.

As assistant novice mistress, she was able to form the young postulant nuns in her own Little Way, encouraging them to respond to God's infinite love for each of us.

I saw young priests, and nuns and brothers, hundreds and hundreds of them.

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.

She told the inquiry how the second nun took her to hospital but warned her: «Don't you dare tell anybody what happened, young lady, or I'll break your other arm» and assured her she would be «lying to protect a man of God, so it's ok to lie».

The great news is that traditional conservative Catholic Christian orders not associated with this self - licking matriarchy of aging «hippie nuns», are overflowing with young postulates.

She had some public instincts, it is true; she hated the Lutherans, and longed for the church's triumph over them; but in the main her idea of religion seems to have been that of an endless amatory flirtation — if one may say so without irreverence — between the devotee and the deity; and apart from helping younger nuns to go in this direction by the inspiration of her example and instruction, there is absolutely no human use in her, or sign of any general human interest.

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.

One of our Sisters who was young and beautiful got the (other) non sequitur: «But you're so beautiful, why did you become a nun?»

Although she seemed ignorant of the devotion itself, let alone its history, Our Lord appeared to this young Visitandine nun from 1673 onwards, asking that he be honoured under the figure of his heart of flesh.

There are the markets, flower sellers, buskers, clowns, clusters of black - habited nuns, fresh - faced young priests, babbling Bernini fountains, clattering church bells.

It was remarkable to see and to think of the practical and silent, discreet witness that Sister Berchmans and her fellow Nuns have shown to generations of young Pakistani girls, many of them Muslim...

Sister Berchmans, a native of County Clare — one of the most westerly spots in Europe — had left rural Ireland as a young nun to go and work in Pakistan.

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.

Includes the Catholic Ireland finally says sorry to the 10,000 «Magdalene Sister slaves» of its Catholic workhouses who were locked up and brutalised by nuns 10,000 young Irish

Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the.

A young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania taking her own life, with a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows sent by the Vatican to investigate.

Synopsis: «A young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania taking her own life, with a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows sent by the Vatican to investigate.

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.

Farmiga, the sister of The Conjuring star Vera Farmiga, will play the young nun.

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.

After the death of their young daughter, doll maker Samuel Mullins (Anthony LaPaglia) and his wife Esther (Miranda Otto) invite a group of orphans and nun Sister Charlotte (Stephanie Sigman) to stay in their farmhouse after their own orphanage closes down.

«Novitiate»: This movie from debut writer / director Margaret Betts concerns a young woman training to be a nun in the 1960s, and along with the audaciousness of the concept I'm excited about the cast; there's bound to be a breakout performance from this group.

Most of the resident nuns are young, repressed sorts yearning to misbehave and break out of the boredom.

A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the middle ages.

It looks like New Line Cinema is keeping it in the family with regards to its Conjuring 2 spinoff The Nun, with Deadline revealing that Taissa Farmiga — younger sister of The Conjuring's Vera Farmiga — has been cast in the lead role.

NOVITIATE / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Maggie Betts)-- In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.

Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, Novitiate tells the story of a young woman in training to become a nun who struggles with issues of faith, the changing church and sexuality.

Considered one of the best screen musicals ever made, the Sound of Music is the story of Maria, a young nun who left the convent and was sent to work as a governess to 7 high - spirited children.

Directed by Margaret Betts, the journey that follows finds the shattering of traditions to be matched in the degradation of the spirits of its young inductee nuns.

Meanwhile, a young nun is imprisoned for her crime of pregnancy, the result of another illicit romance, and needless to say, it all ends in tears.

It follows a young nun in training who struggles with issues of faith and sexuality in the 1960s and marks Maggie Betts» narrative feature directorial debut.

When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest (Demian Bichir) with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows (Taissa Farmiga) are sent by the Vatican to investigate.

Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church and sexuality.

The Little Hours stars Dave Franco as a young servant fleeing from his master, who ultimately finds refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns during the middle ages.

The priest (John C. Reilly) drinks like a fish, while three rebellious nuns (Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Kate Miccucci) flex newfound bad habits when the arrival of a young stud (Dave Franco) spurs a sexual awakening amongst their ilk.

11 Minutes (11 Minut)-- Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland / Ireland North American Premiere A jealous husband out of control, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a reckless drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled student on a mysterious mission, a high - rise window cleaner on an illicit break, an elderly sketch artist, a hectic paramedics team and a group of hungry nuns: a cross-section of contemporary urbanites whose lives and loves intertwine.

With her rebelliousness continuing unabated, however, the nuns, under the iron - fisted rule of the parish priest, are convinced she is possessed, and perform a violent exorcism on the young woman.

A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director was presented to: Maggie Betts, for her film Novitiate — In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.

There she's joined by a handful of other young women looking to become nuns, including Sister Margaret (Ashley Bell), Sister Evelyn (Morgan Saylor) and Sister Emily (Liana Liberato).

Exhibiting the demeanor of a strict Catholic school nun, this no - nonsense disciplinarian orders a new defensive approach to magic likely to leave the young wizards vulnerable to an attack from the Dark Arts, especially if Voldemort has really somehow been revived and returned to power.