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...Father O'Malley's (Crosby's) new parish, Ingrid Bergman is the nun in charge of 'St. Mary's Parochial School. Sister Bergman's school is a firetrap. Rich old Mr. Bogardus (Henry Travers) is putting up an office building next door and wants to have St. Mary's condemned so that he can use the property for a parking lot. But Sister Bergman and her nuns pray night & day that mean old Mr. Bogardus will see the light and give up his fine new chromium and steel office building to the school...
...Sister Benedict, Ingrid Bergman manages to combine beauty, great good humor and saintly dignity even while swinging a baseball bat. Taking her role seriously, Actress Bergman played it without make-up (with no damage to her good looks), visited parochial schools to see how nuns actually behave, wore ballet slippers under her robes to perfect a gliding step. Bergman fans, delighted that their idol is currently appearing in three hit pictures, will have a hard time choosing a favorite from the nun in Bells, the New Orleans cocotte in Saratoga Trunk and the lady psychiatrist in Spellbound...
...Saint of Ecstasy," divided her existence equally between earthly toil and divine rapture. Her strenuous earthly labors led to her founding of the order of Discalced Carmelites; her ecstatic transports made her _one of the world's great mystic poets. Half genius of the supernatural, half militant nun, Theresa's gifts to posterity have become part of "the inalienable possessions of mankind...
...TIME [Aug. 13] you publish a picture of five women in religious garb and call them "dancing nuns." I am going to correct you. These women are not nuns at all, but members of various religious congregations or institutes, and as such pronounce only simple vows at their religious profession. A nun is a member of a religious order and takes solemn vows. There are other differences, too. But, canonically speaking, a nun and a sister are not the same thing. I have noticed before, and often too, that you have made this same mistake. Perhaps, though, as a stripteaser...
...TIME'S thanks to Stripper Flynn for a scholarly differentiation. But popular usage permits the terms nun and sister to be used interchangeably...