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...attended a Mass where the Pope performed the first beatification of a black African woman, Sister Marie-Clementine Anuarite Nengapeta, who was beaten and bayoneted to death in 1964 as she resisted a rape. Before a hushed assembly that included Anuarite's family, John Paul recounted that the martyred nun had, "like Christ," pardoned the soldier who assaulted her. Then he added dramatically, "And I too forgive her killer with all my heart, in the name of the entire church." The man, educated by missionaries, had asked publicly for the Pope's healing words...
DIED. JEAN O'LEARY, 57, ex-nun and leader in the nascent gay-rights movement, who rejected the meeker goals of associates and organized the first meeting of gay and lesbian leaders at the White House, in 1977; of lung cancer; in San Clemente, Calif. One of three openly gay delegates to the 1976 Democratic National Convention, she co-founded National Coming Out Day, which since 1988 has encouraged gays to step out of the closet...
Viewers are tuning in as if it'll be the end of the world if they miss NATASCHA MCELHONE as a nun helping Bill Pullman delay Armageddon in NBC's mini-series Revelations...
Maybe they should take a hint from “Dr. Richard Massey,” whose biggest breaks have come from the wisdom of a nun...
...signs of the virus in donor blood. About 2% of AIDS cases in the U.S. have occurred as a result of the contamination of blood used in transfusions or in blood products like the clotting factor needed by hemophiliacs. The toll includes infants, children, even a 66-year-old nun...