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...Nun Takes On the Church...
...your article "A Nun's Dangerous Talk," I was expecting to see a reference to a book by Miriam Therese Winter, Out of the Depths: The Story of Ludmila Javorova, Ordained Roman Catholic Priest. According to the book, during the cold war women were validly ordained as Catholic priests behind the Iron Curtain. The Vatican may ban the discussion of whether there should be female priests; it cannot deny the precedent. ALEXANDER CUDZEWICZ Scottsdale, Ariz...
...place, she says, where she never imagined she would be. Kathleen once considered becoming a nun and spent time planting pistachio trees on a New Mexico reservation. When she got married, her bridesmaids gave her a potter's wheel. "I didn't think I'd run for political office," she told TIME. "I grew up in a family that loved politics, but it was for the men, not the women." The women, she said, were "supposed to work hard." And unlike the boys, to toe the line. Her letters to her grandmother Rose came back full of corrections, written...
Most striking, though, are the relationships that emerge. Hope single mom Jeanette Laws and her family took to senior Irene Bohn, 77, a former nun and schoolteacher, after Bohn began to tutor Laws' son Brandon, now 12. When Brandon first arrived at Hope at age six, he "couldn't hold a pencil, didn't know colors," recalls Laws, who suspects he had been involved in a cult. But Bohn persisted, encouraging him. In the fall Brandon--until now in special ed--will start school in a regular class for the first time. On those rare nights Bohn doesn't come...
...Former pupils of the School Sisters of Notre Dame wrote us about how their teachers' contribution to the Alzheimer's study reflected the nuns' tradition of inspirational guidance. "The sisters' involvement in the Nun Study reminds me of the help and encouragement they gave me in school," wrote a Texas woman. "It doesn't surprise me in the least that they have responded so generously to the study," a Chicago woman noted. "It's just like them to keep on giving." Said a New Yorker: "It's no wonder the nuns are donating their brains, since they gave their hearts...