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...form, it helps a candidate for sainthood to be Italian, and a nun, priest or brother. Of the "causes" on the Vatican's current list, only 100 are laity; about half are non-Italians. Thirteen of the top candidates are cardinals; five are Popes: Gregory X, Innocent V, Innocent XI, Benedict XIII and Pius IX. Of the dozen or so Americans on the list, best known are Venerable Kateri Tekakwitha (TIME, Jan. 27, 1961), colonial New York's gentle, ascetic "Lily of the Mohawks," and Mother Elizabeth Bayley Seton (1774-1821), founder of the Sisters of Charity...
...side of the revolving cutout, 4 ft. high, showed a pert teen-ager dressed for her high school prom; the other side pictured the same beaming lass clothed chastely in the religious habit of a nun. "This Could Be You," said the accompanying sign. The display, put up by Wisconsin's Cenacle nuns, was one of 60 competing exhibits that gave Milwaukee's municipal Auditorium and Arena the look of a spiritual bazaar. The occasion: Wisconsin's 16th annual Catholic Action convention...
...used a picture of a missile. "Ask about your place in and beyond outer space," read their sign. The Religious Hospitalers of St. Joseph from Montreal, who last year used the rocket theme in urging girls to "get into orbit with Christ," this time settled for a display of nun-garbed dolls. "The rocket didn't work out too well," recalled Sister Gladys. "I'm afraid we attracted more boys than girls...
...others, know all this, you ought (sollen) now to ask? Nun, on September 27, the German, or at least the West German, character was laid bare to me, when I bought what has yet to be recognized as one of the more influential volumes of our time: German--unassuming title--by the two greatest students of national numina since Hegel, Herrn Helmut Rehder and Freeman Twaddell...
...Picasso's Picassos done in the '30s are mostly domestic. Only one before 1939-that ol a nun torn asunder by a bomb during the Spanish Civil War-echoes the horror of Guernica. Picasso painted still lifes, a bird or two, portraits of Dora and Picasso's daughter Maia. But one da>' he finished an anguished woman who looked as if she were racked by some grisly disease. As World War II descended on Europe. Picasso's women became savage, lunatic figures done in colors that scream with rage. The agony vanished as suddenly...