Word: nun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME has learned, though, that the arrests were a frame-up to placate the U.S. According to "official sources" cited by Guatemalan newspapers, the police were led to the killers' trail largely by the testimony of one witness: Sister Ana Maria Gonzales Arias, a Mexican nun working as a missionary in Santiago Atitlán. Sister Gonzales was said to have told officials that she saw "various armed men" wearing hoods enter the church, where they were discovered by Father Rother apparently while they were "seeking to rob the church's money...
...refused to allow the match on religious grounds, Rezanov returned to Russia, vowing: "I shall wring consent from my Tsar, the Pope, your father!" But on the homeward trek across Siberia, the nobleman died on the icy steppes, causing his disconsolate Concha to become "San Francisco's first nun...
...caught me"). The more pious children lay out their stockings at night in the shape of a cross. There are some hilarious set pieces. Nanda's group make their First Communion with students at the associated "poor school." Hurriedly helping one of these girls with her veil, a nun drives a safety pin through the child's ear. For the Lippington girls it is a lesson. Says Reverend Mother: "The poor little girl was in great pain, but she thought it was part of the ceremony, and ... thought of the terrible suffering of Our Lord in wearing...
...that Nanda should be expelled from this rarefied world. The occasion is the discovery of a novel she is writing. It is intended as a heroic celebration of God, with sundry evildoers redeemed at the climax by divine power. Alas, the manuscript, nowhere near completion, is found by a nun during a routine snoop through desks. Nanda's tearful pleas are in vain. Says Reverend Mother: "I have watched something growing in you-a hard little core of self-will and self-love." The gates clang shut...
...radical image dates from 1968 when a group of Maryknoll priests and nuns sided with leftist guerrillas who were hoping to bring down the government of Guatemala. Two of them then got married and, as Thomas and Marjorie Melville, wrote a book called Guatemala: The Politics of Land Ownership. The incident is still well remembered in Central America. Rightly or wrongly, the Maryknollers have acquired such a name for activism that when a gun-toting Irish priest named Donald McKenna joined the current group of leftist guerrillas in Guatemala, some reporters automatically referred to him as a Maryknoll Father, which...