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...heart of Christendom. Even after the Middle Ages monasteries continued to dominate religious life, provided much of the fire of reform within the Catholic Church. But with the 18th century the monastery was relegated to a dark corner. More devastating than the French Revolution's "freeing" of nuns and monks from their vows-more deadly than the guillotine that executed Carmelites and others who did not want to be freed-were the widespread notions that the monastic life was unnatural, unhealthy, a "waste." Today that view is drastically changing: the monastery has begun to recapture the world...
Beginnings on the Hill. "I never had any idea of being a nun," recalls Maryknoll's founder, Mother Mary Joseph, now 72. "As a matter of fact I never cared for nuns, anyway. They wore black habits, and I thought, 'I certainly wouldn't want to go around dressed that...
Died. Mother Mary Katharine Drexel, 96, Philadelphia heiress turned nun, widely honored as the founder (in 1891) and first superior general of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People; in Cornwells Heights, Pa. The daughter of Multimillionaire Banker Francis Anthony Drexel, Mother Katharine renounced personal wealth and social position in her 20s, dedicated her life and the income from her $7,500,000 inheritance to charitable and educational work among American Indians and Negroes...
...World traditions. This time, the conflict between faith and reason is personified by Annina, the young and sickly "saint" who has visions of the Crucifixion and shows the holy stigmata on Good Fridays, and her rebellious brother Michele, who thinks religion is fanaticism. Annina yearns to become a nun, but Michele thinks her visions are delusions and tries to prevent her from taking the veil...
...would take some ten days for a Manhattan accounting firm to tally the names on anti-censure petitions. Boys of grade-school age waved the Ten Million's petitions on New York sidewalks, and a Catholic parent wrote New York's Cardinal Spellman complaining that a nun in a Tuckahoe parochial school was soliciting signatures from fifth-grade pupils...