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...Notre Dame de Sion. where Bobby Greenlease was a first-grader. She was Bobby's aunt, she said, and she had come for him because his mother had suffered a heart attack. Could the boy be released from school to go to his mother's bedside? A nun went to get Bobby, while the woman entered the school's tranquil chapel and knelt in prayer. Down from his classroom, Bobby gave her a long, slow look but, trusting in the wisdom of adults, accompanied her without protest. "I'm not a Catholic," said the woman...
Once again the voice of a zombie was heard in a Communist courtroom and on radio sets across Europe last week. This time, the voice belonged to Czelaw Kaczmarek, for eleven years bishop of Kielce, who went on trial in Warsaw with three other priests and a nun for "espionage, anti-state propaganda and diversionary activities." The Communists had kept him two years in prison to teach him his lines. Yes, said the dead, obedient voice, he had worked secretly with the Nazis during the occupation to keep the people "meek and cooperative." He had helped American officials to "prepare...
...Nineteen-year-old Quintuplet Marie Dionne, for whom half the world prayed when her life flickered for days after her birth, announced that she would become a nun. She will enter the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Quebec City this fall, a cloistered order devoted to perpetual adoration of the Holy Sacrament. "From now on," she said, "I will have an opportunity to repay those people who remembered me when I was in need...
...mother superior hardly knew what to make of it. Here was a nun in her 20s, an attractive French girl with a wisp of brown hair sticking out from under the light blue veil of her habit, walking about alone in the streets of Madrid. What the nun told the mother superior, in a combination of French and halting Spanish, was almost equally surprising: she had come from Aix-en-Provence to establish the first house of her order, the Little Sisters of Jesus, in Spain. She asked the mother superior of the Casa de la Virgen for hospitality until...
...baroness entered the room, crying: "Bertrand, we have been robbed! Our jewels and silver are missing!" It did not take the Baron de Roquette-Buisson long to unmask the culprit. Down to the Toulouse assizes last week he hauled the family nurse and governess, Sister Madeleine, a Dominican nun...