Word: nuns
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...minority. The April exhumation cleared the way for Pio Nono's beatification, scheduled for this Sunday. Beatification will confirm Pius' "heroic virtue," affirm a miracle (a nun's broken kneecap healed) and encourage Catholics to venerate his remains, which will be transferred to a clear crystal casket. The next step will be canonization, or sainthood...
Holding one post of the sign was an young woman anarchist with a shaved head and a red bandana mask. Holding the other was a nun in street clothes. She belonged to a group with signs that said, "Catholic sisters oppose the death penalty...
...anarchist shouted at the mob of press and delegates surrounding the scene. "Can you believe this unity, man? A nun and me." She acknowledged that plans for Tuesday's demonstration were more aggressive than those on previous days, but would not say explicitly whether or not she planned on violence...
...place of gay people in its pews. In March the organization of Reform Jewish rabbis agreed that its members could perform gay-holy-union ceremonies if they chose. The group was then castigated for it by other Jewish branches. Last month the Vatican, which had earlier ordered an American nun and priest to end a ministry to gays and their families because it did not stress the "intrinsically disordered" nature of homosexuality, further prohibited the nun and priest from talking about what they used to do. Even the small Mennonite and General Conference Mennonite churches, for years planning a merger...
...lust. On Daddy I'm Fine, O'Connor cries out about feeling "sexy underneath the lights" and yearning to have sex with "every man in sight." Her newfound calling clearly hasn't dampened her rock-'n'-roll spirit. O'Connor may be a priest, but she's no nun...