Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anthony Quinn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Comedian Victor Borge and Novelist Eugene Burdick, has raised nearly $10,000, which is spent on direct mail and ads in service newspapers. Mail often comes from Americans uncertain of their electoral rights. Inquiries about voting eligibility have been received from a Marymount nun who has lived in Britain since 1932, and from a U.S. citizen currently doing three years in a British prison for a felony...
...That Is Very Obvious." On the drive into Dallas, Kennedy twice called his car to a halt, once to respond to a sign asking him to shake hands, the second time to talk to a Catholic nun and a group of small children. The welcome, said the Warren Commission, was "tumultuous." For days, the city's officials and editorialists had exhorted the people to give a hearty, nonpartisan welcome to their President. They were still smarting from the bad publicity that Dallas had received a month earlier when a band of right-wingers jostled and spat at Adlai Stevenson...
...Ecclesia (On the Church), rushed through discussion of two other chapters, started debate on a schema outlining the duties of bishops, and drafted declarations concerning religious liberty and antiSemitism. So much was being prodded through the lengthened daily sessions that an African bishop complained: "I feel like a nun who has lost her place in her missal...
...Louis begins teaching Lamaze breathing exercises (slow, deep breathing when contractions begin; shallow panting when they increase) to women in their seventh month of pregnancy. "The babies are born happier when they're delivered the Lamaze way," insists Sister Mary Charitas, a small, peppery nun who also teaches nursing at St. Louis University School of Nursing and Health Services. "They're easier to take care of, they're more alert-probably because the mother has not had medication that would make them sleepy...
...Wider Mission. The aims of Sister Formation are not narrowly professional or narrowly Catholic. According to Sister Annette Walters, the Minnesota psychologist who has been its executive director since 1960, the conference seeks to integrate a nun's spiritual and educational training. One current debate within the conference involves this spiritual training; some religious superiors, like Mother Regina of the Sisters of Mercy, believe that the conference should take its norms from the zealous Better World Movement, founded by Italian Jesuit Riccardo Lombardi...