Sentences with phrase «years as a nun»

Karen Armstrong spent seven years as a nun in the Catholic Society of the Holy Child Jesus during the 1960s and later wrote a tell - all book, Through the Narrow Gate (1982) that bemoaned the restrictive life.

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After that came ten years labouring as a parish priest of Prouille, a period of little success in gaining converts from Catharism, although he founded a small community of nuns who wanted to remain Catholic while living a life of comparable simplicity as they would have had as Cathars.

Nuns have been abusing for years, as well as, priests.

Sister Marie E. Thornton, a 63 year - old nun, embezzled over $ 850,000 from Iona College starting in 1999, while functioning as its vice president of finance, the statement said.

I met her at the daycare center that my friend Marie Jose, a Catholic nun with 20 years of service in that country, had quickly put together to address the emergency of the alarming number of orphaned children as the pandemic took more lives each day.

He reluctantly takes on a human interest story that entails him helping Irishwoman Judi Dench locate her illegitimate son, who was sold off to an American couple as a baby over 50 years ago by the nuns running the convent in which she was confined at age 18, à la The Magdalene Sisters.

The sequel centers on a dollmaker and his wife, whose daughter tragically died twenty years earlier, as they decide to open their home to a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage; the dollmaker's possessed creation Annabelle sets her sights on the children and turns their shelter into a storm of horror, but how will they escape from the terror?

Cut to twenty - five years later: Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos), Larry (Sean Hayes), and Curly (Will Sasso) work as the grounds» handymen to show their devotion to the nuns.

In the film, we then find the 32 - year - old actress playing a ratchet nun, so as a little promo for the project, it's only right that Plaza link up with some actual nuns — sort of.

As they stand face - to - face and Cathleen announces she is going to become a nun and proclaims «I'm in love with God», we all share the parent's pain as a mother stares back incredulously, knowing full well a 17 year old is incapable of making such a decision on her owAs they stand face - to - face and Cathleen announces she is going to become a nun and proclaims «I'm in love with God», we all share the parent's pain as a mother stares back incredulously, knowing full well a 17 year old is incapable of making such a decision on her owas a mother stares back incredulously, knowing full well a 17 year old is incapable of making such a decision on her own.

Seven years later, a few weeks before Christmas, Alvirah and Willy are busy helping Willy's sister Cordelia, a nun who runs a thrift shop that doubles as an after - school shelter for neighborhood kids, prepare for the upcoming Christmas pageant.

Rossi, who spent several years as a Catholic nun before becoming an artist, was a member of the Chicago Imagists, an influential group defined by their common interest in non-Western and popular imagery, a dedicated pursuit of vivid and distorted figurative work, and a fondness for pop imagery and wordplay.

Rosalie became the first Aboriginal Anglican nun in 1960 and after ten years left to work as a liaison officer with the Victorian Department of Aboriginal Affairs and it was during this time that she set up the first Aboriginal home for children in Victoria.