Sentences with phrase «schools by nuns»

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

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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

«But so many have been educated by sisters in a school, taken care of by a sister at a hospital or know a nun in their parish that is running the office.»

The first time I had unsweetened yogurt was at a boarding school run by French nuns.

On BBC Question Time on February 5, Labour's shadow education minister Tristram Hunt made a remark appearing to link weak, unqualified teachers to religious education, specifically Catholic schooling provided by nuns.

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

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.

Q: There are lots of other great characters in the movie, though, from the disappointing guys Lady Bird dates (played by «Call Me by Your Name's» Timothee Chalamet and «Manchester by the Sea's» Lucas Hedges) to her patient dad (Tracy Letts) to a cool school nun (Lois Smith) and more.

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.

Olive grew up in a Catholic boarding school, leading Elizabeth to laugh at the fact that the descendent of two radical feminists was brought up by nuns.

The filmmaker understands how audiences respond to terror on screen, thwarting our pleasure by toying with and condescending to our expectations — like a Catholic school nun sticking a pin into a voodoo doll of Regina Hall's loud - mouthed character from the first Scary Movie.

Though loss of nuns, changing demographics, and lack of funds are the most common explanations for the Catholic school system's dissolution, and are important to consider, I think we can also find answers to the current crisis by understanding the lessons of 1884.

The problem was that the posing, discussing and reflecting addressed questions of faith in a convent school during the early 1980s in Year 7 Religious Education and this wasn't applauded by the cheerful and gentle nun who taught the classes.

The brave group of four, faced with the hardest part of the job of a school board member, voted to forever close the doors to the city's first charter school — led by a nun.

The Missouri Supreme Court held that schools taught by Catholic nuns are not free public schools and therefore may not receive public funds.

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.

Now just turned seventeen and well schooled in street work, he lives by his wits, spending his days jamisponding (spying) on town officials and looking after the elderly nun who raised him, Ma Franci.

Rose purports to be a poor orphan, raised by nuns and schooled in a trade by necessity at the Astoria Stenographers College for Ladies.

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.

Back in Mobile, they sent their six children to a black Catholic school run by white nuns.

Attending Catholic school in Brooklyn, I felt loved by the Catholic nun who was my second grade teacher.

And, coming from a Christian family, the Montessori school that we attended was run primarily by Italian (Catholic) nuns & it was important to my parents that we be in an environment where we could talk about God & pray, etc. freely... Something you Layla & Kevin I'm sure would appreciate.