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...mark this a special day for Catholic women and celebrate the International Women's Year, the Pope would for the first time permit a nun to read one of the lessons in his presence. She was Sister Hildegarde Marie Mahoney of Convent Station, N.J., the head of the Federation of Mother Seton's Daughters. And four women, one each from France, Italy, Spain and Canada, had been chosen to present petitions for canonization during the 2½-hour ceremony...
...what sort of liberation? The question was put poignantly by a U.S. nun who asked in one group discussion, "Do we have to opt for revolution?" The theologians' answer is yes-although they hasten to add that revolution covers a broad range of options, not all of them violent. Jesuit John Coleman of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union says that there are elements of selflessness and idealism in the U.S. tradition that could be used to inspire Americans to "fight for structural reforms [that] most would call revolutions." But the blacks, feminists, Chicanos, American Indians and other North...
...been channeled into a Catholic-run anti-Communist radio network in Colombia. Another allegation: 15 years ago, a Protestant missionary in Bolivia, "as a patriotic duty and not for pay," gave reports to the CIA about the Communist Party, labor unions and farmers' cooperatives. At least one nun in Colombia, an ex-agent says, meticulously compiled an account of the political affiliation of each family in a village; it went to the CIA. According to Marks' report, another ex-agent claimed that a Roman Catholic bishop in South Viet Nam was "on the CIA's payroll...
Absent-minded on a summer afternoon, you could walk right by it without knowing. You might not have noticed the Fenway nun, black and in black habit, waiting with her radio till the game ends, when she'll get to her feet with the donation basket already full of quarters to make it look good. And you could miss the Fenway paraphernalia vendors--booths on a city street in Kenmore Square are nothing special. going left from Brookline Ave. to Lansdowne, you wouldn't know that the huge wall on your right, grimy the color of the warehouse and shop...
...person, almost introverted onstage." Also he was "quite porky. In a caftan he looked like a myopic nun." Still young Reg, unable "to chat it up with the girls," did what he could to change his unprepossessing image. He unsuccessfully tried amphetamines to cure his weight problem. He borrowed the Christian names of Saxophonist Elton Dean and Leader John Baldry to create a new stage name for himself. Then he went off to London, where he found work as an errand boy at a music company...