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...Sister Joseph Andrew Bogdanowicz, vocation director at the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, credits e-mail to some extent with what can only be described as her order's astonishing growth. Founded in 1997 as an offshoot of a large convent, the Sisters now have 73 members with an average age of 24. In 2006, 15 women entered as postulants. Next August, more than 20 women are scheduled to join them. The order is fund raising for a new convent for them to live in. "We cannot build fast enough. It's incredible," says...
Instead, his script, a spare, character-driven retelling of Mary and Joseph's trip to Bethlehem, was rushed into production by New Line Cinema and entrusted to an edgy director with a knack for youth culture, Thirteen's Catherine Hardwicke. Despite the challenges of reconciling Scripture with story, casting actors to play icons, constructing a Christ-era Nazareth in the Italian countryside, wrangling donkeys and camels, and figuring out how to market the first major-studio Bible epic since the genre's peak in the 1950s and '60s with films like The Ten Commandments, The Nativity Story will arrive...
...Hardwicke, this meant making the icons of the story as real as possible. "People don't think of the character of Mary or the character of Joseph," she says. Since no one knows how Mary explained her pregnancy to her parents or what she and Joseph said to each other on that 110-mile journey to Bethlehem, it was up to Rich and Hardwicke to speculate, with the help of historians and theologians. "We'd ask, 'What was the mind-set of a religious Jewish person at that time?'" says Hardwicke. Despite the accelerated production schedule, she spent a month...
...Joseph Rizzuto...
...task force and will report its findings to the CHL, said Goldenberg, who is vice-chair of the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) of the Undergraduate Council (UC). In addition to Goldenberg, the CHL representatives include UC members, Brian S. Gillis ’07-’08, Joseph W. Stanley ’09, Winthrop House Committee (HoCo) chair Michael J. Robin ’08, and SAC chair Ryan A. Petersen ’08. Originally, the leaders of the task force planned to divide into five committees to address advising, alcohol and drug strategy, dining, house activities...