Word: conventioning
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...Bengali girls. It was on Sept. 10, 1946, during a train ride to Darjeeling for a religious retreat, that Teresa received a "call within a call" in which she felt God directed her to the slums. "The message was quite clear," she told colleagues. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor whilst living among them. It was an order...
...Mass with her sister nuns, joins them for a spare meal of an egg, bread, banana and tea, then goes out into the city to work. Age and authority have not changed her; she is at ease these days with Pope and Prime Minister, but she still cleans convent toilets. She has won an array of international honors, including India's Order of the Lotus...but sees them only as "recognition that the poor are our brothers and sisters, that there are people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted." Especially...
...fists. George Friebolin, an advocate for the deaf at the Lexington Vocational Services in Queens, who knew some of the immigrants from a Bible-study program, said one man told him last week that his son had been kidnapped. "They told him that the baby was placed in a convent or a church in Manhattan," says Friebolin. "He says he's been searching for the child since...
...lovers, Gaylord Ravenal and Magnolia Hawks, hold their trysts. The second act is set in turn-of-the-century Chicago, the centerpiece being the Palmer House Hotel. But here, too, the set undergoes a series of eye-popping transformations, conjuring up scenes as divergent as the gate of a convent and the glitzy interior of the Trocadero Night Club before flipping back to Main Street. The passing of time from 1889 to 1921 is ingeniously marked by the use of the Palmer Hotel's revolving door, the headlines at a newsstand and the changing attire and manners of the Chicago...
...when he approached the order's U.S. leaders with a sensitive question. Would the nuns be willing to do more than take psychological tests and give blood samples? he wondered. Would they be willing to donate their brains? Like a politician campaigning for votes, Snowdon traveled from one convent to the next, making his pitch. In Baltimore, Maryland, he remembers, Sister Mary was the first to endorse the project. "Sign me up!" she said. In the end, 678 nuns who were 75 or older enlisted. To them, participating in the study seemed an extension of their mission to care...