Sentences with phrase «serve as a nun»

With less and less women entering the Catholic Church to serve as a nun, the church states that the numbers have decreased 72.5 percent since the 1960s, it seems odd that the church would refuse to let a woman enter the order due to an outstanding student loan, but that is exactly what has happened in New York.

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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.

Dear Reality; Speaking as one who has had many, many clergy serving the needs of many people over a century I must take issue with you on your «no clerics, no nuns, no bibles» etc..

It is perhaps not without some significance that the Wittenberg jurist Hieronymous Schürpf served as best man at Luther's own wedding to the former nun Katherine von Bora.

And many monks and nuns, in response to the gospel stories of Jesus» ministry, became active in the world, serving as missionaries to areas of Europe not yet Christian, caring for the poor, preaching and teaching.

Ambassador Mehmet Nun Ezen, a Turkish diplomat who serves as consul general here, said in an interview that 42 Turkish citizens were in detention in the New York region, down from 58 after Sept. 11.