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Last June the Holy See unveiled its own new look in guards: a nononsense, black-robed nun named Sister Fiorella. The stern, fortyish sister was installed as Chief Censor on the steps of the Basilica on the theory that a nun might be fairly safe from assault by irate tourists. Before long, the question was: Was anyone safe from Sister Fiorella? Newspapers nicknamed her "The Terrible Nun," and she did her best to live up to the sobriquet. She turned away as many as 35 women a minute during peak periods (up to 2,000 a day), usually with...
...Adolf Martin Bormann, is also missing, but for more romantic reasons. The 41-year-old Bormann, who became a priest in 1958, has left the order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to marry. Bormann is waiting final clearance from the Vatican to wed a former nun in the Dominican order, so far identified only as "Sister Cordula...
...Without meaning to cast aspersion on the nun pictured in your story or on the teaching method she seems to be using, I do not think you give a true portrayal of Catholic education today...
...what he was doing was illegal, he protected himself by copying each letter he handled on a campus duplicating machine. The letters were in double envelopes. The outer envelope was addressed and mailed to acquaintances of Sister Elizabeth in New York, who then conveyed the inner envelope to the nun. Letters to Berrigan were handled similarly-mailed to friends Douglas had made on the Bucknell campus. He picked them up from his friends, duplicated them, and normally also had coeds copy them into his course notebooks, which would be less conspicuous if prison guards searched him. He usually retained...
...defendants are Mary Cain Scoblick, 32, a former nun and wife of Defendant Anthony Scoblick, 30, a former priest, and John Theodore Glick, 21, who is in prison for vandalizing draft offices. Other defendants are two priests, the Rev. Joseph R. Wenderoth, 35, and the Rev. Neil R. McLaughlin, 30, and Eqbal Ahmad, 40, a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs in Chicago...