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Over the past year and a half, Law has tumbled from his position as an archbishop and one of the most influential figures in the American Catholic church to a chaplain in a small convent in Clinton, Md.—and a place in American infamy...
...years after he graduated from Harvard, Law has left the public eye for a small convent in Clinton...
...SERNIN BASILICA, the biggest and most beautiful Romanesque church in southern France; the Musée des Augustins, a 14th century convent and cloister with magnificent Gothic and Romanesque sculpture; the Fondation Bemberg collection, housed in the 16th century Hôtel d'Assézat, has paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th century; the church and cloister of Les Jacobins, founded by St. Dominic in 1340, is famed for its spectacular 28-m "palm tree"; pillar, fanning out into 22 vaulting arches; and the Musée St. Raymond, with its stunning ancient Roman sculpture...
...Sept. 11 severed the convocation in half: five days of illuminating fun, five days of mourning from which the movies provided only fitful distraction. So this year on Sept. 11, the festival presented two films that explicitly confronted the attacks and their aftermath: Jim Simpson's The Guys, a conventionally heartrending meeting of a journalist and a New York City fire captain, and the much more ambitious and provocative 11'09"01: September 11. The conceit is this: 11 directors from five continents each make a film, running 11 min. 9 sec. Some episodes find subtlety, humor, parable...
...experiment that is gaining popularity among a range of Catholic communities, some schools and parishes have established corporations to give themselves complete independence, even from their regional diocese. In 1997, for instance, a group of Dominican nuns founded the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist convent in Ann Arbor, Mich., which has expanded to include four local schools and two in Honduras. Sisters of Mary is incorporated and run by a lay board of directors. Its financial affairs are directed by a Virginia-based private investment group that primarily focuses its efforts on sustaining small nonprofit organizations. "You have...