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...need for places of prayer in Australia at that time," recalls Sister Bernadette, now the prioress, who has seen three sisters buried in the high-walled garden. Prayer is the air that they breathe. It's what brings them from their cells with the toll of the bell at 5:10 each morning, and what shapes their day, spent mainly in silence. There's morning prayer, private prayer, thanksgiving prayer, Vespers, and streams of rosaries, Little Hours and Stations of the Cross. The telephone brings more still. "We get so many people asking us for prayers," says Sister Bernadette. "Sometimes...
...Sister Antoinette packages altar breads for other parishes, while Sister Maria is preparing the monastery website to sell home-made rosary beads and stationery. (Three "extern" sisters, who live outside the enclosure, look after the church and do the monastery's shopping.) But the nuns are only ever a bell's toll away from prayer. It's what brought Sister Maria to the community as an 18-year-old in 1971. "I think it's very sad these days," she says. "People are distracted by all the noise and the bustle that's going on out there...
...Cardinal would surely approve. And as his arrival is announced by a tolling bell, the monastery's usually locked front door creaks open to admit him. The cardinal's towering figure quickly disappears inside behind a cloud of habits. "They seem happy," he says when he emerges. "Not all religious communities...
They begin with Patrick, a longtime confidant of Stewart's. A former McKinsey consultant, she helped Stewart craft a multimedia lifestyle conglomerate out of her cookbooks, television specials and endorsement deals. Patrick stood by her side when Stewart rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 19, 1999, the day the company went public. At its peak, the stock reached nearly $40 a share, but it has dipped close to $5 since news of Stewart's sale of ImClone, a biotech-company stock, surfaced in June 2002. That sale triggered a federal investigation and her subsequent...
...that turned a governmental backwater called the Bureau of Investigations (the Federal came later) into the modern FBI. The killings also inaugurated a rollicking two-year carnival of bank robberies and kidnappings carried out by men like "Baby Face" Nelson and "Machine Gun" Kelly, men whose nicknames ring a bell but who, it turns out, we never really knew...