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...express my displeasure . . ." Adding to the turmoil was the fact that the Carmelites had revised their charter at Rome's initiative. The Vatican, complained an exasperated nun, "has summarily dismissed an experiment which it ordered these women to undertake, and is now accusing them of infidelity for doing...
...give solid performances, particularly in their songs. Yet the real strength of the production lies less with the leads than the play's secondary characters--the despicable goody two shoes (Amy Dolan), the transgressing priest (Wally Engelhardt), the sex starved classmate (Peter Heuchling), and most notably, the vituperative senior nun (Carol Estey...
...northern town of Ocotal, an estimated 500-600 contras attacked several targeted areas--all of which were civilian and economic. Armed with automatic rifles, mortars, and grenades, they killed many Nicaraguans and burned their rain mill, coffee processing plant, electric plant, machinery and houses. A U.S. nun who was in the area reports uncovering cardboard boxes for shells marked NATO and "locating hundreds of bullet jackets from U.S. made weapons among the charred remains...
...coming. Others by leaving," and the privilege of purchasing beer or wine for $ 1, mixed drinks for $1.25. Father Jim, as Reynolds is called, anticipated the puns, so the first drinkers had to endure the priest's own pre-emptive patter: holy water on the rocks; Blue Nun; we specialize in Christian Brothers. The bar rolled merrily along until midsummer, when a sorehead entered the equation...
...Catholic casualties-an unwed mother, an agnostic who's had two abortions, a homosexual and an alcoholic wife beater who constantly wets his pants. The students, who all blame their problem on Sister Mary's repressive dogma have come to embarrass her. In the course of their confrontation, the nun shoots two of her students and chases another away, while the fourth is held at gunpoint despite his pleas that he be excused to go to the bathroom...