Word: nun
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Archbishop Edmund Szoka of Detroit insists that a nun in such a public post must, as a minimum, declare her opposition to public financing of an operation that the Second Vatican Council deemed an "unspeakable crime." The resulting test of wills between nun and Archbishop is embarrassing Governor James Blanchard, dividing the state's Catholics, and seems destined to land at the Vatican for final judgment...
...attention lavished on her at such establishments supports her case for camouflage. She never makes reservations in her own name; she often pays the bill with a credit card issued to a pseudonym, and varies her disguises. "I've thought seriously," she says, "of dressing as a nun or a Hasidic rabbi, or wearing a suit of armor...
...said to have ascended the throne of St. Peter around A.D. 855 and who was later stoned to death. Also joining the party are Isabella Bird (Deborah Findlay), an intrepid 19th century Scottish traveler; Lady Nijo (Lindsay Duncan), a 13th century Japanese courtesan who became a Buddhist nun; Dull Gret (Carole Hayman), who led an avenging legion of women into the precincts of hell in Brueghel's painting Dulle Griet; and finally, Patient Griselda (Lesley Manville), made famous in Boccaccio and Chaucer as the model of a loyal, submissive wife...
President Reagan promises to use the appointment of a new Transportation Secretary to "make peace" with liberal and minority groups disaffected with his policies. "What I'm really looking for is a Black, handicapped, elderly nun who's been cut from food stamps and is anti-muke and pro-environment," he explains, adding, "If she's got Sandinista friends, that's all the better...
...life and actions among the garbage pickers, the nun epitomizes the best in today's new missionary. "I'm not interested in going to those convents where old nuns spend their last days," she reflects. "I want to remain here doing what I'm doing until the day I die. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else because here I feel I am giving the life of Jesus Christ to the children." The final gift to mankind of Sister Emmanuelle, and thousands of missionaries like her, is themselves. -By RichardN. Ostling. Reported by Dean Brelis/Middle...