Word: lisieux
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...common with many other abuse cases, the church seemed unwilling to take action against one of its own. However, in a landmark case in France last year, Father Pierre Pican, Bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux, received a three-month suspended sentence for failing to inform the police after Father René Bissey confessed to him that he was sexually abusing children. Bissey was jailed for 18 years in 2000 for raping one boy repeatedly and abusing 10 others betwen 1989 and 1996. Pican's defense claimed that the bishop had been motivated by his priestly obligation to keep Bissey's remarks...
...male-dominated world and her constant struggle to find beauty in a harsh and unforgiving terrain. The saints that Carmen addresses have given her solace and guidance through the years, from Saint Liberata, the patron saint of abused women represented as a crucified female martyr, to Saint Theresa of Lisieux, who teaches Carmen to find beauty in adversity...
...finals. "She has her day structured," said her coach Richard Callaghan. "She is a giddy teenager between some hours, and she's a hard worker in other hours." And just in case that doesn't work, Lipinski prays. She wears the likeness of St. Therese of Lisieux around her neck and says a novena before competitions...
...would always be silent about her early life, but she told Muggeridge she had a vocation to serve the poor from the time she was 12. At 18, Agnes joined Ireland's Sisters of Loreto and took the name Teresa in honor of the French saint Therese of Lisieux, renowned for her piety, goodness and unflinching courage in the face of illness and early death...
Therese (played with fierce clarity by Catherine Mouchet) was one of four Martin sisters in the convent at Lisieux. The film portrays it as a true community, a beautiful sisterhood. For novices like Therese, every act of abasement is another wondrous rite of initiation into a high-spirited sorority of love and sacrifice. For the older nuns, the convent is not a ^ prison but an enchanted castle that surrounds them with images of their beloved. All the sisters find beauty in duty, fulfillment in filth. One nun, ministering to lepers, consumes flakes of a diseased man's skin...