Word: nun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...express my displeasure . . ." Adding to the turmoil was the fact that the Carmelites had revised their charter at Rome's initiative. The Vatican, complained an exasperated nun, "has summarily dismissed an experiment which it ordered these women to undertake, and is now accusing them of infidelity for doing...
...Pope's temporary seizure of the Jesuits' administration, is expected to be the only instance in which John Paul's Vatican will directly rewrite a constitution. However, it may signal future problems for many other orders that are awaiting Vatican approval of their revised constitutions. Says a ranking nun from another order: "Nothing this important is done without the intent to send a message...
...give solid performances, particularly in their songs. Yet the real strength of the production lies less with the leads than the play's secondary characters--the despicable goody two shoes (Amy Dolan), the transgressing priest (Wally Engelhardt), the sex starved classmate (Peter Heuchling), and most notably, the vituperative senior nun (Carol Estey...
...northern town of Ocotal, an estimated 500-600 contras attacked several targeted areas--all of which were civilian and economic. Armed with automatic rifles, mortars, and grenades, they killed many Nicaraguans and burned their rain mill, coffee processing plant, electric plant, machinery and houses. A U.S. nun who was in the area reports uncovering cardboard boxes for shells marked NATO and "locating hundreds of bullet jackets from U.S. made weapons among the charred remains...
...coming. Others by leaving," and the privilege of purchasing beer or wine for $ 1, mixed drinks for $1.25. Father Jim, as Reynolds is called, anticipated the puns, so the first drinkers had to endure the priest's own pre-emptive patter: holy water on the rocks; Blue Nun; we specialize in Christian Brothers. The bar rolled merrily along until midsummer, when a sorehead entered the equation...