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Questions & Answers. A major source of restlessness in convents is the uncertainty and questioning inspired by the Second Vatican Council. Time was, says Mother Benedicta of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, when women fled from the world into convents "in order not to be corrupted by it." Far too many immature girls, adds Psychologist Marie Francis Kenoyer of the Sisters of Loretto, accepted "poverty to escape financial responsibility, obedience to escape decisionmaking, chastity to escape involvement and the demands of love." The Council caused many nuns to ask themselves for the first time whether they had genuine...
...Benedict's even enjoy a second artist in residence: Playwright George Herman (his From Sea to Shining Sea has been optioned by Manhattan's Lincoln Center), who reigns enthusiastically over what started out as a simple new auditorium but is now a $3,000,000 Benedicta Art Center. Boasts a college official: "He adds a real touch of pizazz to the place...
...BENEDICTA MARIA KEMPNER...
...August German occupation authorities ordered the arrest of all non-Aryan Catholics in Holland, and Sister Benedicta and Rosa were herded into a van and taken to a concentration camp. Amidst the suffering and despair at the camp, "Sister Benedicta walked about among the women, comforting, helping, soothing like an angel," an escaped Jewish businessman wrote later...
...Sister Benedicta's fellow religious at Echt soon received a brief message: "Greetings from my journey to Poland. Sister Benedicta." On Aug. 9, 1942 Edith Stein and her sister Rosa died in the gas chamber at Auschwitz...