Word: lorenzina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most people feel that because we are nuns we have lost our appreciation for feminine matters," says Sister Lorenzina of Rome's Catholic Pious Society of the Daughters of St. Paul. "Quite the contrary. A woman remains a woman even after she takes the veil. If she lost her feminine soul, she would become a cold, sterile human being...
...Sister Lorenzina has practical proof for her point: listed on the masthead by her given name of Olga Guidetti, she is the editor of a not-quite-slick-paper magazine named Cosi (Thus), which is published and staffed by the Daughters of St. Paul and is a successful weekly entry in the fiercely competitive Italian field of popular magazines for women...
Editing with Care. When the sisters are given bylines for their articles, their given names are always used. There is a good reason for such policy: Cosi's ten sister-staffers want their magazine to stand as more than a conventual oddity. Says Sister Lorenzina: "We take great care in editing so that readers should not see that Cosi is obviously done by nuns. By publishing a gay and amusing magazine- always within the concepts of Christian morality and modesty-we try to attract readers who would otherwise buy lay publications which are often scandalous and harmful to morals...
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