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There may be someone on earth - a cloistered abbess, perhaps, or a Taliban soldier in a particularly remote post - who has yet to learn that High School Musical 3 opened last Friday. (It promptly leaped to the top of the U.S. box office, to the tune of a $42 million weekend take, and was No. 1 in each of the 19 international markets in which it opened.) But it's a rare human who hasn't at least heard of the Disney tween hit, given the passion of its fans and the zeal of Disney's promotion. What began...
...Abbess in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is a baby-faced actress with a Korean accent and a Betty Boop voice. Yet ponytailed and blue-jeaned Rebecca Seo, 9, brings to the role all the majesty of Elizabethan prose as she stands on a desk at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School, declaiming, "The venom clamours of a jealous woman/ Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth...
Meet Mother Angelica, 71, improbable superstar of religious broadcasting and arguably the most influential Roman Catholic woman in America. In her day job, Mother Angelica is abbess of Our Lady of the Angels Franciscan monastery in Irondale, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. More famously, this self-taught telenun is board chairman (she deplores all-inclusive language) of Eternal Word Television Network, which reaches 36.8 million cable-equipped American homes via 1,204 affiliate systems. The largest of America's three all-religion cable networks, Mother Angelica's channel is going international. On Aug. 15, EWTN will begin 24-hour daily...
...church obtained from inside the Soviet Union a document verifying the circumstances of thousands of martyrs' deaths. Most died in slave-labor camps. For the final ceremony, 1,000 clergy and laity turned up, including Prince Vladimir, the Pretender to the Russian throne, and many converts: an Arab abbess, a Sioux priest from South Dakota, and two Japanese seminarians...
...shrewd judges of young folly and vanity, some times excuse minor infractions because they feel it takes generations to make their kind of Catholic. The girls are blunter. "When I die," says one beautiful young aristocrat, "my great uncle Cardinal de Wesseldorf and my great-great aunt the Carmelite Abbess de Wesseldorf, who had an affair with Napoleon before she entered, will say to the recording angel: 'My dear sir, you can't seriously send a Wesseldorf to hell,' and into heaven I shall go." To Nanda she observes, "You're a nicely washed and combed...