Word: convention
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phone rings in the convent. Mary Paul must see a woman whose six-year-old and 1 1/2-year-old children were discovered on a fire escape at 4 a.m. The woman's excuse was that she had to go buy milk. "Of course, it isn't true. The woman undoubtedly has a pattern of leaving her children in hazardous situations. Is she going to trust us enough to allow us to help...
...WISE OFTEN remind us that when good things happen, we credit ourselves, but when bad things happen, we blame the Almighty. A lot of nasty things have happened in the convent of the Little Sisters of Mary Magdalene, which means the title of Agnes of God is not the only place where the name of the Good Lord appears in this film...
...PARTIES DRAG in their psychological garbage for viewer perusal, which consists mostly of good old-fashioned Catholic guilt. Livingston's sister died in a convent, so she would like to hate Catholicism, except her senile mother makes her feel guilty about being ungodly, and professional ethics call for objectivity in the case. Agnes thinks her child's father was God, so naturally she has ambiguous feelings towards her heavenly spouse. And poor Mother Superior has the misfortune of also being Agnes's aunt, which makes her feel responsible both for Agnes's abuse as a child and Agnes's eventual...
...problem is especially poignant in the case of orphans and abandoned children; in Florida's Dade County, one of these youngsters with AIDS is being raised in a county hospital. In New York City, the Roman Catholic archdiocese tried to set up an AIDS shelter in an unused convent on the Upper West Side, but backed off when parishioners refused to send their children to the neighboring parochial school. The privately run AIDS Resource Center in Manhattan managed to find housing for 21 victims in four buildings, and persuaded the city to pick up part of the cost...
...Convent of the Sacred Heart...