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...retained and encouraged, but "it should be modified according to conditions of time and place, and outdated customs done away with." Rather than having such changes ordered from the Vatican -which before Vatican II held tight control over cloister rules-the orders themselves will make them; even the individual convent will be allowed some latitude...
...have also removed the bars that used to separate them from visitors; some even welcome Calvinist ministers and their congregations for debates. Though the Vatican has urged communities to become self-supporting through handicrafts or other works, it doubtlessly did not have in mind the job that one Dutch convent does for a nearby pharmaceutical factory-packaging birth-control pills...
...striking example of the contemplative in a modern situation is provided by the "Convent of Atonement," founded four years ago at Dachau. The building itself is prisonlike, but only to preserve the grim atmosphere of the demolished concentration camp that once stood near by. Inside, twelve Carmelite nuns pray almost continuously for the souls of all who were martyred at Dachau. They are, in fact, a part of the Dachau tour-"a permanent witness to the crimes there," says Mother Gemma, the convent's superior...
...undone, Bohan's girls wore not a single bra and slithered unencumbered about the salon. Hardly unusual, perhaps, but one mannequin, wearing nothing but a black velvet sheath split straight up the front, caused Cecil Beaton to drop his pencil. "She looks as if she left the convent too soon," he gasped...
...issue of Britain's entry into the European Economic Community, Pompidou assured his audience that France did not consider the Common Market a "convent" requiring "a series of vows to be pronounced." At the same time, the "European notion" must have a firm basis, and enlargement of the EEC involves real difficulties, some of which "have been hidden behind what has been called the French veto," Pompidou said. At present, the EEC was nothing more than "a customs union on the one hand and, on the other, an agricultural community quite difficult to operate." The needs for more integrated...