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...heart, I'm still a nun." So said Agnes Mary Mansour last week as she announced plans to leave the Sisters of Mercy of the Union rather than step down as Michigan's director of social services...
Appointed to the job last December, Mansour, 52, originally had the blessing of Detroit's Archbishop Edmund Szoka, even though her agency would administer $5.7 million a year for abortions. But Szoka insisted that the nun state her opposition to such outlays, since the church holds abortion to be an "unspeakable crime." Although personally against abortion, Mansour declined to do so because she thinks that in fairness, poor women should get aid if abortion is legal. In February, Szoka demanded that she resign; when Mansour and her order resisted, the archbishop took the issue of disobedience to Rome...
Andropov's response to the scientists was released only three days after a letter from nun had been received by Samantha Smith, 10, of Manchester, Maine. The fifth-grader had written Andropov to express her concern about the dangers of nuclear war. "Why do you want to conquer the world, or at least the U.S.?" she had asked the Soviet leader. Andropov assured Samantha, whom he described as "a courageous and honest girl, resembling in some ways Becky, Tom Sawyer's friend from the well-known book," that Moscow wanted a relationship of peace, trade and cooperation with...
Decked out in mesh stockings, spike heels and a nun's habit slashed to miniskirt length, Jack Fertig, a San Francisco transvestite, campaigned for a seat on the eleven-member San Francisco board of supervisors last November under the alias of Sister Boom Boom. On the ballot he had listed his occupation as "nun of the above," and he got 23,124 votes. This was not enough to win a supervisor's seat, but enough to encourage him to enter this fall's mayoral election. Also declaring: "Lady Lillian Chaucer-Peace, gentlewoman," "James Bond Zero, political exorcist...