| 单词 | nun |
| 例句 | I know, Mate and I drew up the list ourselves in the pretty script we’d been taught by the nuns for writing out Bible passages. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You grew up in an orphanage just like me, but the nuns never told me anything about sugar tongs or stuff like that.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The only person not shouting is the little nun. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Unlike others who have described their Catholic schooling, I do not remember the nuns or the priests to have been obsessed with sexual sins. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The nun’s blood arrived at the C.D.C. in glass tubes in a box lined with dry ice. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The nun’s blood was precious beyond measure, since it contained the unknown hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The nun stopped playing and said something, at which all the little girls jumped up and ran to different parts of the playground. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In two days she would arrive in Zimbabwe and ask the first people she met to find her some nuns. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was pretty sure the Catholics wouldn't take in any crazy nuns. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I sat down and quickly grabbed my leg from the floor as the fearsome nun stood at the door next to my mother and gave us a strange look. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z All the other little girls were singing and clapping their hands, but Maybeth was staring at the nun’s hands as they played on the instrument. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “I heard the nuns make you kneel on the carpet and if your skirt doesn’t reach the floor, they say it’s too short and send you home.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z And I tell her how Uncle Pat doesn’t want me anymore and how they put Mr. Timoney in the City Home for laughing just because Macushla bit the postman, the milkman and a passing nun. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mother Ermentrude frowns on this ancient penance, though some of the older nuns still practice it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Some of the nuns fear that the touch of any man compromises their chastity. Thus Angelina suffers greatly from a boil, for she refuses treatment. And any complaints of the womb go sadly untended.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The incredible thing is that, for the first few hundred years of the first millennium ad, before a universal notation system emerged, all of the chant that monks and nuns sang was memorised. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the nuns got to her young, and Vic has nodded himself silly several times to catechism lessons disguised as dinner conversations. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “There’s two cells on the opposite side from the nursery. Whichever nuns are on duty with the little kids, they sleep in there.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Having had no success at warning the nuns about the flood, Malcolm tried with his teachers. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z By telephone they learned that Blanca was ill and that the nuns did not want to be responsible for her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Evidently, like the Godstow nuns, they got up at all times of the night to sing and pray. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In the sanctuary, candles illuminate the solemn faces of the nuns. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The two nuns bowed their heads and left. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The nun who was the principal had suggested that Carla stay back a year in sixth grade, where they still had two spaces left. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The nuns had put fresh flowers on the altars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Even while grammar school nuns reminded me of my spiritual separateness from non-Catholics, they provided excellent public schooling. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Quiet nuns clustered quietly around their Reverend Mother, who never read their letters. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a nurse at a hospital in Zaire, and she had taken care of a Ro- man Catholic nun who died of Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is it not true,” I say, “that the nuns are loath to allow the village doctor to examine them when they are ill?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z When I went back to school and to work, I began preparing to become a nun. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When one nun told my parents that their youngest daughter had a ‘mind of her own,’ she meant the remark to be a negative criticism. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple of nuns were strolling on the lawn of the convent and staring at us kind of funny. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Mary smiled at Beatrix, then led her back to her room and gave her back her nun outfit. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The nuns sigh with contentment as they do when their bellies are full of wholesome food and their souls sated with prayer. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She wearing a white lace blouse buttoned up like a nun, flat shoes so I reckon she don’t look any taller. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z At the beginning of each day, the nuns at Yambuku Hospital would lay out five hypodermic syringes on a table, and they would use them to give shots to patients all day long. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The nuns? Not if the lord chancellor had told them not to.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Dawn and dusk, noon and night we gathered in the chapel and said a rosary along with the little nuns. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The one right next to me had one of those straw baskets that you see nuns and Salvation Army babes collecting dough with around Christmas time. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Is a school uniform, from the nuns’ school. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In my new profession I am like a confessor, for I listen as the nuns reveal their ailments, and I prescribe balms, tonics, and poultices. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The nuns have let her get away with her fresh ways for a while, but today, they finally put their foot down. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In his ear, Asta, in the form of a goldfinch, whispered, “They already knew about the nuns.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Ale is brought, and the nun goes on. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She certainly didn't sound much like a nun. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z I thought I might see how long you had to be a Catholic before you became a nun, so I asked my mother, thinking she'd know the best way to go about it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “You the one always up and gone to the nuns’ school. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It swept through the Yambuku Hospital’s nursing staff, killing most of the nurses, and then it hit the Belgian nuns. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple of schoolchildren, an old man, three women with stuffed shopping bags, a group of nuns...suddenly he grabbed Riccio's arm and pulled him inside a doorway. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z After her first Communion, she wanted to be a nun. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "Burned with the books of the Jews," the nun replies. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z That's why I was glad those two nuns didn't ask me if I was a Catholic. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Don’t use such dreadful expressions,” replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The baby was asleep in the nuns’ parlor, the room where they received visitors, but Sister Fenella said it would be all right if he was very quiet. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The nun placed the smallest down on the ground and picked up the fallen child. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At the convent, when I mop, I hang my uniform on a wire hanger in the nuns’ closet and slip on my old brown shift, in which I feel comfortable and almost invisible. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “No one will believe it,” the nun said. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z This rather unorthodox method of obtaining them had been Perry’s inspiration; nuns, he had argued, were certain to have a supply. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z No one, not even the nuns, had had the courage to enter the obstetric ward. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the first nun at Ngaliema Hospital, Sister M. E., lay dying, her doctors had decided to give her a so-called agonal biopsy. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You both must be very proud of Richard,’ the nun said. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With all my classmates, I went to the unlit church where the nun led us through the forms of an ‘examination of conscience.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria the nun was standing at the top of the mountain twirling around and around. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The little nun at the end of the table is smiling at me in a most unsettling way. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “In Jericho the other night. He was talking to her and asking about the nuns and the baby.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Anyway, these two nuns were sitting next to me, and we sort of struck up a conversation. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “A sibyl of a medieval nun. She has guided my life.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "I wouldn't think that there is," the nun agrees. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z As far as anything else a girl might need, he decided the nuns could handle it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He squeaks a reply, and my father the Slammer strokes his perfectly stubbled jaw and says in the soft, patient voice of a nun, “Josh Raymond, we’ve discussed kicking the table.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I looked for you on my way back,” he admits to her, telling her about the snoring nun. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “And do these nuns ever have visitors?” said the oldest man. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It comes to me that I might, as the nuns do, put Christ in the place of a husband, and thus exit this labyrinth of worldly love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A man cannot really complain, here he is treated by the nuns exactly like a civilian. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z My Aunt Libby's husband had made a joke once, about a nun that a nunnery sent to Teresa for a checkup. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Everything is fine until the nun who knows all the canteen kids by heart looks at me and says: You, who sent you here? The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only do I tend to the complaints of the nuns, but country people and villagers pay for my services, and the poorest are granted them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The nuns await the day of Christ’s birth, only weeks away. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z My parents had much in common with the Irish-born priests and nuns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Little groups of children were gathered about, playing or reading or listening to one of several nuns who were out there with them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Today," she says, folding her hands like a nun, “I want you to tell me about your political education." Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, if I walked fast, I caught a glimpse of the Catholic schoolchildren lined up in twos, being led into the chapel by black-clad nuns whose faces were milky white and waxy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The nuns muttered that Hazel’s mother was trading with the Devil. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He says this property used to be an orphanage run by nuns. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Nurses and nuns never think you know what they’re talking about. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z One day the nun concluded a session by asking me why I was so reluctant to read by myself. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z More than that—as Lyra had discovered, she had once been a nun. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He tells me my brothers are all praying for me, that I should be a good boy, obey the doctors, the nuns, the nurses, and don’t forget to say my prayers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s not the usual thing you get nuns doing.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He seemed convinced that the fathers, and the nuns too, couldn’t make a mistake. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “The nuns would only hand it over to Senator Mendoza,” she said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A nun at St. Agnes Academy had once washed Hazel’s mouth with lye soap for saying something very similar, so she wasn’t sure how to respond. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A line of cribs along one wall, and small beds along the other, with an adult’s bed at the nearer end, where a nun was sleeping and, as he’d heard from outside, gently snoring. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Alice is helping us for a while,” the nun went on, her voice light and breathless. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z There was a neater way to deal with potatoes, as he knew from his mother’s example, and given a sharp knife, Malcolm could have shown the good nun, but he held his peace. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The nun began the class with the Lord’s Prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Giggling was a form of mutiny to the nun and she quelled it with a wintery narrowing of her eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman then aborted spontaneously, and the nun who assisted at this grotesque delivery came away from the experience with blood on her hands. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "I have no idea how you dance in all that," she says, her hands fluttering up and down and side to side in arcs so wide I might be wearing a nun's habit. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Frau Elena is a Protestant nun from Alsace who is more fond of children than of supervision. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z By high school, the nuns were reading her stories and compositions out loud in English class. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He said Patria could go away to a convent school if it wasn’t one just for becoming a nun. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents seemed to me piously simple—like the nuns I remembered—unwilling to entertain intellectual challenges. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember how the nuns got upset when I called the Spanish inquisitors Nazis. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But then the nuns and priests had gotten to him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The nuns sold their best specimens and kept the less perfect ones to eat themselves, though Malcolm thought Sister Fenella’s pies tasted pretty good, whatever the apples looked like. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z As a frightened bird caught inside a house startles one person after another, the news stirs up the servants and nuns alike. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z After a moment, I look back to the nun. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z When we went in, the room was already crowded—babies, children of all ages, and women of all kinds: nuns, spike-heeled flappers, lame grandmothers, fat mothers and thin ones, brave ones and sniffling ones. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The blood of the mother and fetus was radiantly hot, and the nun must have had a small break or cut on the skin of her hands. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But Sister Lucia, an elderly, corpulent nun, is less trusting than the others. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Then I will take a new path, join the convent as a nun, and become pure again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The nuns’ upraised hands, their solemn steps, and their shining faces convey hope and earnest faith. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The team discovered three surviving nuns and one priest, along with a few devoted African nurses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a nun at the Yambuku Hospital who is known today as Sister M. E. She became gravely ill with I’epidemie, or “the epidemic,” as they had begun to call it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She found her, sitting in a circle around a nun with a guitar. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm’s first thought was that a pipe had burst, but that wouldn’t account for the old nun’s terror. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z This is what her mother and the nuns had said to do when the curse came on. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It took the arrival of two nuns in 1998 to bring some order and rules to the padre’s operations. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Anatole has even kept the globe I gave him for a wedding present, painted by my own hand on a calabash while the nuns prayed their novenas. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She had just made her first communion and had given herself so wholeheartedly to the church that she thought she might like to be a nun when she grew up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the old nun would read from her favorite books, usually biographies of early American presidents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Already the nuns are saying that a miracle was manifested in Therese’s death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They passed a group of gloomy nuns, a ragged man wearing chains, and the Fat Friar, a cheerful Hufflepuff ghost, who was talking to a knight with an arrow sticking out of his forehead. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Both expert at translating the character of nuns, Ben and Mary Anne divided them into two distinct and irreconcilable categories: the Smiles and the Vampires. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, the nuns were busy and Mr. Taphouse was at home, so Malcolm had no excuse to go to the priory. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She may have been splattered with the nun’s blood or with black vomit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Runako was so clever! After we left Zimbabwe, her headmaster sent a letter to our village. ‘I have spoken to the nuns at the Catholic school,’ he wrote. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z More than once, he said that Patria as a nun would be a waste of a pretty girl. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not that Elaine was going to be a nun because she was desperate. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z At nightfall the nuns were exhausted, unable to move, give another order, and still the troop of tireless adolescents was in the courtyard singing school songs out of tune. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Out of sight of the nuns, the boys pelted Carla with stones, aiming them at her feet so there would be no bruises. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z But the nuns are fasting now, eating only bread with salt and water. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The nuns would certainly have toothpaste and soap, but Bri would want her own toothbrush. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I rub my hands together for the feeble warmth as I pass by the door of the refectory, where the nuns eat in silence, their heads bent in a row over their food. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I’m worried about the nuns, you see. I know they’re worried about safety and that, ’cause they told me. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Alice had pulled Sister Fenella back into her armchair, but the old nun hadn’t woken, and her breathing was loud and difficult. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I wonder what Hamlet, the philosopher and man of reason, would have made of the nuns’ simple faith that they consume Christ’s true body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And depicted on the nuns’ cartoon placards as bringing all his evil to bear on the temptation of nicely dressed boys and girls. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There were also a great variety of priests, nuns, and monks. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z In the corridor outside the room that was now Lyra’s, there was a group of nuns, all of whom Malcolm knew well, and they were crowding nervously around the door, which was closed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The nun cradled the smallest, a shriveled doll with stick legs and a pregnant belly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The little nun says, "I know the next part. Would you like to hear it?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Her hair and the pillow were the same color, beneath the wimple of the medicated cloth she looked like an old nun praying. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever since then, instead of paying money for school, I dean the tile floors of the nuns’ house. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For some reason—some reason that I cannot explain—my gaze slides to the little nun, whose face is buried in her mug at the end of the table. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z At St. Jude School, the nuns had taught Mary Louise and her siblings to respect all people regardless of their skin color, and she did. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z One-ninety Howard Avenue turned out to be just across the street from a big convent, and there were a lot of trees and stuff and nuns running around the place. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z If I could make her love me, maybe she would forget about Beatrix the nun going home and let me stay. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because she is a baby. There’s no one to protect her except the nuns.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Sister Pauline, the head nun, insisted on coming to our home to assess whether I was suitable for the school. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z In this realm his knowledge was so vast that the doctor from the nuns’ hospital used to come and ask his advice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A nun had her hand on his forehead. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As a nun she would not be her own boss. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She suspected her mother of being an atheist and only hoped she wouldn’t bum in hell for eternity as Lourdes and the nuns said. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the Christian era Judaism was my religion, the nuns said. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s the nursery—that’s where the little ones sleep and get looked after. That’s upstairs near where the nuns have their cells.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z This nun had already made up her mind anyway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “So the priest wanted to take her away,” she said, “and the nun showed him the wrong child? D’you think she just didn’t know herself which was the right one?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She wanted them locked up like nuns in a convent, she was always so afraid. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “So there’s only two nuns looking after the kids?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The nun remained still for a moment, then turned with a kind of dread in her eyes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z One or two of the sleeping children muttered or whimpered in their sleep as he passed, and the nun in the bed at the end gave a soft shuddering snore and turned over. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The car ride home was a one-man comedy act comprised of every nun joke Gramps could remember. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z On the top floor, in what we guessed was originally the nuns’ quarters, we found a trunk full of dolls, old, old dolls, with leathery skin that was broken and creased from wear or age. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Doctors at the hospital in Kinshasa examined the nun’s case and began to suspect that she might have died of Marburg or a Marburg-like agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To please the nuns, I carry a big satchel of books, but there are more pressing things to make sense of. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "Does he not?" the nun replies, looking to Jerome. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Of course, Anatole’s most faithful prison correspondence was with a nun in Bangassou, which was a matter of great hilarity to his fellow prisoners. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Guardian Angels was a small Catholic elementary school run by an order of monks and an order of nuns. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Now it's just me and the nun sitting together. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Twice at roadblocks, soldiers searched both him and the nuns. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “I live like a nun and look like one, but I am not bound by any vows. Horatio, I am free.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “The nuns were so loving and so sweet,” she said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The little nun says, "How about a nice cup of water?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Suddenly, it struck me, too, that this plump little nun with a bit of her gray hair showing under her headdress wasn’t Mama or Papa I could argue things with. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The ghost nuns in their black robes look like they’re gliding on ice. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Latin, the nuns taught us, was a universal language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When Esther rang the bell to Ida's house, a round, surly-looking nun opened the door and silently signaled Esther to follow her. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z During those years when the nuns warned me about the dangers of intellectual pride and referred to Christ as Baby Jesus, they were enabling me to participate frilly in the liturgical life of the Church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The store of herbs that Mechtild gave me remedies disorders of the womb, which are common even among nuns. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I’m going to tell the nuns this evening. They need to get that shutter fixed. I’ll help Mr. Taphouse.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Ida had begged Lucia for nearly an hour until her housekeeper finally put on the nun’s habit, and now she looked very impressive. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She hum songs that sound like nun songs. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A fair amount of the nun’s liver traveled up the needle and filled a biopsy syringe. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm saw the two nuns flinch as they saw what was happening; then they pulled the shutter closed and the light vanished. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It also took no great figuring to see that to deliver a eulogy for a convent full of crazy, old, overweight nuns was no way to endear herself to her peers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She heard a nun’s voice singing the boat song. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn't stop thinking about those two nuns. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Please tell Signora Spavento that the habits have to be back before tonight,” the nun had whispered to Prosper after she had passed the clothes through a hatch in the orphanage’s gate. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Other travelers—sleek Spaniards, Irish nuns—roomed right through. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z "He went to bed. And the nun—" But suddenly I realize that the nun had been inside when the kids arrived in the yard of the inn. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Once when we were living on Loomis, a nun from my school passed by and saw me playing out front. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Until one Saturday morning three nuns arrived at the house to talk to our parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But the nun replies, "Maybe I'm making it up. Or perhaps I have my ways." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z My work now ties me to the nuns more firmly than a pledge to share their poverty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Her room was contaminated with blood, and there was also the question of the two nuns’ rooms, both of which were still locked and bloodstained. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From the very first morning at the nuns’ house, my life seemed different to me, Djo. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember when I told you the story of Beatrix,” she said, “the nun who ran away from her convent? Remember how the Virgin Mary stood in for her?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t try to sell them without advice—ask the nuns for help.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Arrogant and humble at the same time, the radical, fearless nun and her fellow sisters were the most committed individuals Farmer had ever met. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Jesus Christ, oh, Jesus Christ, and the nuns are shocked at the way he takes the name of the Lord in vain. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z As she lay in the fork of the great branches, she felt a kind of bliss she had only felt once before; and that was not when she made her vows as a nun. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He invited a group of influential nuns from the Catholic group Pax Christi to Haiti, hoping when they returned to the States they would spread the truth about the junta’s abuses. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A few days later I let it be known that I was going to be baptized into the church and confirmed as soon as the nuns thought I was ready. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z This frightened Francie into believing that hair grew on the faces of all nuns who entered the convent at a tender age. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This nun kept hearing harp notes in her ears and a voice saying over and over, "Alleluia!" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The nuns closed themselves up in their convent for their yearly mortifications in honor of the crucifixion of their bridegroom and Lord, Jesus Christ. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So Maman enrolled me in the nuns’ school, against Auntie’s wishes. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The Rule calls the nuns to test the supplicant’s spirit, to see if it comes from God. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But in high school, she got interested in boys and realized she wouldn’t make a good nun. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The time we spent in church reminded me of how Cuba used to be, before the priests and nuns were kicked out. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Maybe I was bored, Djo, and a little lonesome in my life with the nuns. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In Mother’s drawn face, I can see the regret that she did not champion Therese in her desire to become a nun. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I am without a home, forever alienated. Though I am not a nun like you, I also died to the world in coming here.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z From the austerity and tranquility of her medieval world, the penetrating gaze of this legendary Sybil of a holy nun would exorcise the horrors which materialize before our eves in the name of television. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The principal is a nun with a bonnet like a baby doll, except it’s black. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z While I considered how poorly I would fill the role of a nun, Hamlet entered the hall. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Only one smuggler in ten, says a nun at the Parroquia de San Jose, is trustworthy. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The next—The nun in the bed behind them groaned and murmured in her sleep. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z ‘The nun Beatrix didn’t run away. Why, there she is over near the altar, sweeping.’ The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was this same gesture of privacy the nuns would teach me to use, especially after Communion when I thanked God for coming into my soul. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, my eyes swivel to the little nun. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “My family is Jewish. The nuns raised Grandma as a Catholic child, but she’s Jewish too.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z My door creaked open to reveal a young nun with a round and honest face. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "Ma still wearing her widow's uniform is one thing," Sunny complains, "but why are you dressing like a nun?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The scholarly man said, “The nuns in the priory. How do they earn a living? Do they make perfumes, anything like that?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The authorities had provided a translator for Mollie, but she waved him off and spoke in succinct English, the way the nuns had taught her as a child. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The nun rang a little bell and Blanca appeared in the doorway. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think I seen her before she came to the school. I think she was at the priory talking to the nuns.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “There’s a Catholic school up in Fort Myers, but that’s a long ways off. Was he wearing a uniform, this kid? Because the nuns make everybody wear uniforms.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I also translate prayers into French for the nuns who do not read Latin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The women were going to hike ten miles through the wilderness to see some hermit nuns who wouldn’t be hermits anymore once they got there. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I sort of kept looking around for those two nuns I'd met at breakfast the day before, but I didn't see them. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z But even if that was the case, Dicey knew her cousin would rather have been a nun. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The nuns' house, at the edge of La Saline, felt sturdy and solid, cool and calm. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom, however, said nuns were killjoys who took the fun out of religion. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The nun would persist, ‘Richard, stand up. Don’t look at the floor. Speak up. Speak to the entire class, not just to me!’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There were those special mornings when the priest would come over from church to take the boys to the cafeteria, while the nun remained with the girls—‘the young ladies’—in the classroom. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “She was being looked after by the nuns at Godstow, so she must be someone important.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The two boys looked at each other, then at the nun. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose being a nun and all, not many people told her what was wrong and right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, she was learning English in a Catholic classroom, where no nun had ever mentioned the words she was needing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “And how many nuns there were, and that.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The nun’s pug dæmon hid behind her legs. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z We flipped through the pictures, looking at women who were fat, thin, long-haired, short-haired, dressed as nymphs, amazons, nuns, and courtesans, but I was unable to decide because they all looked like trampled banquet flowers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a nun would crop her hair so close to her head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z ‘Richard,’ the nun repeated more slowly, writing my name down in her black leather book. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The nuns gave me a coat, but it’s too small.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I regarded with awe the ‘wedding ring’ on a nun’s finger, her black ‘wedding veil’—symbols of marriage to God. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion presented one drawback, of course: nuns, and anything pertaining to them, were bad luck, and Perry was most respectful of his superstitions. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She herself swept her room and made her bed, as the nuns had taught her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The nuns deeply trusted the role of memorization in learning. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "And a little nun. She knew a great deal of the story. More than I would have thought possible." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I can dream about the red-lipped landlord’s daughter and the highwayman, and the nurses and nuns can do nothing about it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z So when he appraised Sister Loretta Marie it was with eyes that had spent a lifetime studying the habits and peccadilloes of nuns. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The nun bent to speak to her and she looked up. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I knocked, and after a moment, Aileen poked her head out the door, the black curtain curled around her face like a nun’s habit. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “When did you stop being a nun?” said Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z My sister Eulalie was two years at the nuns’ school when our father had work here in the city. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Gertrude also left her queenly seat, making two thrones vacant Overcome with grief, she closeted herself like a nun and received no one for weeks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Rejoicing that their Lord is risen, they carry the news to the nuns seated in the choir. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Olga? Are you kidding me? No way. That girl was practically a nun.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Not the kind the nuns have, with an electric cord that plugs into the wall. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There were stories in the paper of German parachutists disguised as nurses and nuns, spreading out through the cities and infiltrating the population. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I lived like a nun in England and dreamt of him every night and thank you very much for carrying my case. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At the end of the year the nuns organized an exhibition and a party, and the dreadful works of art were sold for charity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes though, for the women, they’re for a nun who recants. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of answering, the little nun picks up her mug and drains a long draft. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The nun called Maybeth from the sandbox where she was playing alone. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the nun’s encouragement that mattered most to me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She was also a scientist, nun, poet, visionary and diplomat, and her music is still performed and admired now, nearly a thousand years later. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She leaves and I wonder if I’ll be eating with nuns and nurses or will I be in a ward with children having their Christmas dinner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Whenever I got into trouble with the nuns at Maryvale they’d rap me on the knuckles with the edge of a metal ruler. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z If the nuns were scared of my mom, Hazel wondered, what would they make of this goddess? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The chapel bell rings throughout the day and night, calling the nuns to constant prayer. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Like the nuns, this woman has a slightly imperious air, as if she is used to getting her way. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “The nun, I mean. They always did that, you know. You’ve no idea the messages I’ve gotten from nuns walled up alive.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z She had gotten used to the nuns, a literature of appropriate sentiments, poems with a message, expurgated texts. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z In his public school, nuns and priests taught the Catholic prayers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z If it is not overstepping myself, I would greatly appreciate your telling me if you find being a nun very satisfactory, in a spiritual way, of course. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Translation: Her story about being handed over to nuns to escape the Holocaust was her secret until her grandson exposed it to the world. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z In a nun’s voice, as clear as clean water. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As he pulled and pushed at the dough, Malcolm pressed the nun with questions. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Being with the nuns was comforting, even though they couldn’t speak the same language. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I was walking on clouds that day, proud to be beginning my Philosophy Year, as the nuns call this last one. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben’s great aunt told him the truth about priests and nuns. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The nuns had been flattered, the audience had stood up and given "our devoted teachers a standing ovation," what Laura had suggested they do at the end of the speech. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Or a Chinese nun. All I’ve ever seen are white nuns,” Edwin jumped in, so I figured he hadn’t done his homework either. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z She was not going to spend the rest of her life acting the cinema nun. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The priory, situated as it was where the road crossed the river, was popular with travelers of all kinds, and the nuns often had visitors to stay. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Considering that you will barely be able to see over your shop counter at the moment. But don't worry, the nuns in the orphanage are always immaculately groomed!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I’d argue with the nuns and the priest all the time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Isabel tells me that when they learned his name, the nuns wept with surprise and joy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Gunners sleep, nuns in a crypt beneath the cathedral sleep, children in old corsairs’ cellars sleep in the laps of sleeping mothers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Two nuns were walking on the other side of the street, and they watched us so closely one of them almost fell on the ice. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z The nuns were not interested in constructing a temple of religious abstractions. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A light snore, which might have been the nun on duty, a little snuffling and whimpering—no more than that. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “The nuns were kind to me, with their ointments and bandages and sympathy. They offered me their busy, useful detachment. They offered me peace, Djo.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There are telegrams for the houses of priests and nuns and they have maids, too, even if they say poverty is noble. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z About all I could think of were those two nuns that went around collecting dough in those beatup old straw baskets. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Tomorrow is the feast of Christ’s resurrection, and while the nuns attend the Easter Vigil service in the chapel, I keep my own vigil at Therese’s bedside. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “She didn’t till I told her. She told me about him because he’d been asking her about the nuns.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The first nun to break with Ebola was a midwife who had delivered a stillborn child. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a “nun,” not a “noun,” lurking inside. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Next door, people stood in line at the clinic and shivered with malaria while they waited for a nun to give them an injection of medicine that might make them feel better. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I dress in white like a nun, I feel the stain of sin, of mortality, around me like a bright girdle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “They will never let me see her again. She told me once if she could not marry me, she’d want to become a nun.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “You may send a map of my new route to the mental ward at Charity Hospital. The solicitous nuns and psychiatrists there can help me decipher it between shock treatments.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “No nun was ever walled up alive,” the doctor said sullenly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm sounded incredulous, and he felt it too: Who on earth would want to hurt the nuns, or break their windows? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It would not interfere with your being a nun. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “I was looking for a burglar who liked to dress up as a nun and, unfortunately, I caught a real one instead. We've never been on good terms since then.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Frequently they were orphaned, brought up by nuns or stepmothers who made them do all the housework. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Please share it with the class,” the nun demanded. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But these were sacred figures in rich velvet capes and glittery robes and shepherds' cloaks beautifully stitched to look ragged with patches by the Carmelite nuns. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She started to walk over to where Maybeth was, but a young nun came and asked her what she was doing there. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d been in trouble at school before, but most of the time, that just meant a whack on the bottom from one of the nuns. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The nun sits back on her rough stool. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Instead, the nun looked worried and said I should delay my plan for a while. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And she rub my feet and sing her little nun songs, and pretty soon I feel like I bade in the rocking chair. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The nun stared at her for a long time. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “The quality or condition of being depraved or corrupt, ” Rahel read, with a row of sternmouthed nuns seated behind her and a sea of sniggering schoolgirl faces in front. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought of the pretty little nursery the nuns had made for Lyra at Godstow and clenched his fists. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z They go to the nuns and priests and they get Education. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z No sign of Sister Katarina, no sign of the other nuns—they couldn’t all be drowned? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When we reach downtown, people dressed in black are parading solemnly through the streets: nuns carrying crosses; men and women holding candles, the tiny flames lighting up their faces eerily. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The story that pours out of him is too stunning to be a joke—that his grandmother was handed over as a baby to nuns to escape the Nazis. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The nuns expected us to ask for purity of soul, or a holy life. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The drama concluded, the crowd empties from the chapel, and the nuns file out in a silent procession. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Singing and bearing candles, the nuns leave the choir and follow the priest to the sepulchre. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Once they’d gone, all the nuns flooded into the baby’s room and surrounded Sister Benedicta, uttering little words of sympathy and admiration, stroking Lyra’s head. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The nuns read it to us in school. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He and another nun, named Sister E. R., drove Sister M. E. in a Land Rover to the town of Bumba, a sprawl of cinder blocks and wooden shacks that huddles beside the Congo River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On another day the nuns got all excited because Colonel Aureliano Buendía had urinated under the chestnut tree without being concerned that the schoolgirls were in the courtyard. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Malcolm felt that, nice as the old nun was, she didn’t know the best way of speaking to a baby. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I always cry when nuns yell at me, even if they’re not yelling. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Above us, stern nuns in crisp whites watched our intrusion from the strokes of a massive oil painting housed in a gilt frame. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The young nun looked back at the windows behind them and stood aside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you pick Maria like your sister?” the nuns had suggested. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Catholic school. The nuns. Gotta look like a lady, you know?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The nun had bled to death all over Nurse Mayinga, and then, a few days later, Nurse Mayinga had broken with Ebola and died. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Would you like to tell the class a little something about the Dominican Republic?” the old nun prompts me. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z It seemed to me Buddy Willard and I were like that Jewish man and that nun, although of course we weren't Jewish or Catholic but Unitarian. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The nuns would praise student papers for being neat—the handwritten letters easy for others to read; they promised that my writing style would improve as I read more and more. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z While Perry waited in the car, he had gone into the hospital to try and buy a pair of black stockings from a nun. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The nurses have clean white uniforms and the nun, Sister Rita, is all in white. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At the convent school, I helped the nuns with one last polishing before all the students came back. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like Lyra, but the nun had been so sure.... The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When they got up to go, the two nuns, I did something very stupid and embarrassing. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Here I am neither a servant nor a nun. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z At a migrant labor camp not far from Duke, Farmer met a Belgian nun, Julianna DeWolf, who worked with Friends of the United Farm Workers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She had seen Lyra herself now—had even held her—and so she realized what it would have meant for the nuns to be deprived of her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The nuns love me, I know, but it is the kind of love you have to work for all the time. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z No-nonsense nuns ruled classrooms with an iron hand, passing on to the youngest girls and boys the discipline and knowledge they would need to get ahead in a prejudiced world. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I remember something about that. The nuns at St. Agnes taught us that Diocletian was a huge villain, right along with Nero and Caligula.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Some were in the concentration camps, others were hidden and protected by non-Jewish families—like what those French nuns did for Link’s grandma. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It is possible that Father Zimmermann made you resign from the school because he thought it might interfere with your being a competent nun. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Word of it crept in among the nuns; the beggars in front of the church spoke of it, for they would be there to take the tithe of the first fruits of the luck. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Those two nuns I saw at breakfast and this boy James Castle I knew at Elkton Hills. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The virus had taken root with the nuns and had done its work among those who had sought help from them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z How would the nuns fall? we asked ourselves. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My classmates and I were destined to live in a world very different from that which the nuns remembered in Ireland or my parents remembered in Mexico. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z No one knew what had killed the nun, but clearly it was a replicating agent, and the signs and symptoms of the disease were not easy to consider with a calm mind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The nuns sent medicine and even came to pray with me. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We weren’t talking about Beatrix the nun, that was plain as day. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was passed on aurally, monk by monk, nun by nun, painstakingly, patiendy, for century after century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z During my first months in school, I remember being struck by the fact that—although they worshipped in English—the nuns and my classmates shared my family’s religion. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But the nuns refused to let Felicia choose Sebastian as her confirmation name. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The nuns I’d had in grades one and two were mysterious, unknowable, but Mr. French was a civilian. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Don’t be a jerk. Jews don’t become nuns.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They sent their children to parochial schools because the nuns ‘teach better.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought she’d be a nun when she grew up, and live a quiet, contemplative life serving God. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Malcolm lifted his head and watched as the nun led him to the seventh crib from the end. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I may not sit with the nuns in the sanctuary of the chapel, but I pray their prayers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The nun uttered a long, high moan of some emotion Malcolm didn’t understand. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The virus surfaced in the Yambuku Mission Hospital, an upcountry clinic run by Belgian nuns. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after, remedial reading classes were arranged for me with a very old nun. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The nuns across the street are going to complain,” Lorraine yelled to me over the racket. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z In their American classrooms, the nuns worked very hard to approximate that other place, that earlier kind of religious experience. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When he asked Mary Anne what she thought about the new nun in their lives, Mary Anne did not answer; she put up her two hands and covered her throat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother pleaded with the nuns to take me back. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time this happens, even now, the nuns beam and kiss my cheek and shake my hand and give me fancy certificates that Maman plasters on the cardboard wall at home. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of answering, Jerome turns back to the little nun. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The old nuns laugh and their eyes dance when they bend down to receive a garland of daisies or cowslips from his hand. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Did he say why he wanted to know about the nuns and the baby?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “You won’t be able to walk that far, but there are nuns all over Zimbabwe. Just find the nearest ones and tell them you’re Catholic. They can send a letter to your father.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, the parish priest arranged for her to travel under the care of a group of Franciscan nuns who were going to Toledo, where they hoped to find dependable people to accompany her to Belgium. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z "This is entirely inappropriate of me. Almost as inappropriate as a nun offering counsel regarding the deaths of a spouse and a child. Marin is getting excellent grades. Marin is an excellent student." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They were Maryknoll nuns, members of that missionary order whose special task is to go into a country, with knowledge of its language, and convert its people to the Catholic faith. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The old nun was cutting up a cabbage, and Malcolm took a knife and helped her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Leading the procession along with Dr. King and other civil rights leaders were an Episcopal bishop, a Jewish rabbi, a United Nations diplomat, and four Catholic nuns wearing long black habits. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z A poor farmer who tills the nuns’ field, his three hollow-eyed children, and a guest, a traveling scholar, round out the company. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Hitler’s secret police, the Geheime Staatspolizei, or Gestapo, hounded Catholic priests, nuns, and other church officials, instructing priests what to say in their sermons and classrooms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “You used to be a nun,” she said. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Another nun, Sister Katarina, was coming to keep an eye on the baby while Sister Fenella went to the oratory for a private service of her own, or so Malcolm gathered. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The nun who read what I wrote would have known that what I had written was completely imagined. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After that I started asking Mary for her special help—not to take me home, though, like the poor nun Beatrix. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone popped a bottle of champagne and tears streamed down the faces of the nuns, who’d prayed fervently for such a miracle. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “She is only a servant who earns her bread and board here, yet she prays with more fervor than any nun.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "Shall I...?" the nun says, looking at the avid faces of her audience. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It parked close by, doors opened and shut, and soon five emaciated children and a nun in a blue-and-white habit joined them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Taphouse moved towards it, and the nuns all shuffled out of his way. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Mr. Taphouse stepped back to make room for them, and so did Malcolm and the nuns, so that there was almost a guard of dishonor for the men to walk through. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z School had been closed a while, for the break and because the nuns feared violence. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose we are. But that’s not the point. Grandma never knew her parents, but she wasn’t orphaned at birth. Her parents gave their baby to the nuns to save her life.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The elfin nun from Santo Domingo is crazy about saints, often identifying the holy ones long before the Vatican even contemplates their canonization. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The young woman spent her time studying with the nuns and went so far in her training that she asked to become a nun herself and remain in the convent. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The nun who had come in remained by the crib for a few moments, and then made her way more slowly to the door. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I swear I’m going to become a nun!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You can’t have a black pope if there are no black nuns.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Malcolm couldn’t tell which of the nuns it was, but then it was joined by another face, and the window swung open, into the dark and the cries of agonized laughter. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Stressing memorization, the nuns assumed an important Catholic bias. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The nuns spied me out there and told me I’m going to wear away their foundation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She handed her remaining savings to the nuns and requested a private room with a television and the best nurse in the hospital. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The singing got louder still, and then to his horror a line of nuns, hands pressed together and eyes lowered, came around a corner and straight towards him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I know what to say,” the nun said darkly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder why Therese abstains from food, though she is not bound by the nun’s vows. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Some minutes, or hours later, I made, in French, the following brief entry in my diary: “I am giving Sister Irma her freedom to follow her own destiny. Everybody is a nun.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Influenced, I suspect, by a bleak melancholic strain in Irish Catholicism, the nuns portrayed God as a judge. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no mistaking the sound of a nun who was equal parts concerned, annoyed, and frustrated that she’d have to wade into the mud herself to save one of her more stupid students. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z And the nuns rode on with lowered heads. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She chose a very rigid order of nuns. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “So that was how I stopped being a nun,” she said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Wanting to shake the corporals off, he quickened his pace, overtook the Scotsmen and pushed his way past a group of nuns shepherding a couple of dozen children in blue tunics. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I am supposed to commit to recovery like a nun pledging body and soul in a convent. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “They burned a Catholic church up your way not long ago. With some nuns in it.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With my mop and my rags I spread cleanliness like a blessing all around the nuns’ quiet house. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My third student was a nun of the order of Sisters of St. Joseph, named Sister Irma, who taught “cooking and drawing” at a convent elementary school just outside Toronto. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z But Voichita is now contentedly living the life of a novice nun at New Hill, an Orthodox convent. Beyond the Hills: A Neorealist Exorcist 2013-03-08T13:00:06Z Really, what is there left for one to do after playing a nun in charge of an insane asylum, a powerful New Orleans witch, and the proprietor of a Florida freak show? Jessica Lange Says She's Done With 'American Horror Story' 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Farther on are the grassy remains of the medieval Godstow Abbey, where I stopped to imagine it filled with Benedictine nuns. In Search of Oxford 2014-03-21T16:22:35Z But then the choreographer pulls the strings tight, as in a sequence where, as Devil's Island bleeds into the Amity Island of Jaws, the nun's head is bitten off by an animated shark. Made in Heaven; Cruising, Clubbing, Fucking: An Elegy – review 2012-06-30T23:05:46Z The character, he explained, is partly a composite of his mother; a tough old-school nun who taught at South Catholic High in Hartford; and of his own, no-nonsense sobriety sponsor. Need a Broad? Call Turner 2011-04-03T02:14:35Z The setup again is a Dagwood sandwich of horror tropes, but with different ingredients: naughty nuns, vivisection, exorcism and, I kid you not, aliens. TV Tonight: American Horror Story: Asylum 2012-10-17T12:00:24Z This, despite the fact that the prolific artist and erstwhile nun could produce more than 50 of her sought-after Pop art prints in a couple of weeks. Corita Kent's distinct pop of art-activism on view at a Pasadena show 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z In one scene three nuns wearing huge wimples cross themselves frantically. Arts: Taking a ?Little Mermaid? to Dark New Depths 2010-03-20T00:33:00Z In the room, kneeling and motionless, were six nuns. Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z But so far there has been only one derisive offer from another church group, which the nuns have rejected. Nuns who inspired Call the Midwife forced to sell their home 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Anna is subject to medical surveillance by a nun, Sister Michael, and by Doctor O'Brearty who imagines becoming famous for discovering the secret to eternal life. "The Wonder": Netflix’s story of "fasting girls" shows us starving bodies remain a public spectacle 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z In a talk to priests and nuns gathered in the Church, Francis expressed his gratitude to those he said had offered the “silent martyrdom of fidelity and daily commitment” in the past. Pope urges Thais not to see Christianity as 'foreign' 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z “I remember the nun smiling,” Mr. Murphy said. Film: Ryan Murphy Directs Julia Roberts in ?Eat Pray Love? 2010-08-06T03:38:00Z In the Oakland Greyhound, all the people were dwarves, and they pushed and shoved to get on the bus, even cutting in ahead of the two nuns, who were there first. “What a Pair of Lungs!”: Denis Johnson’s Ecstatic American Voice 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z As we shared a cigarette behind a bus during recess, away from the nuns’ prying eyes, I inquired why. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z The nuns learned last year that they would have to leave their current location after being hit with a rent hike and received help from an unanticipated source. Soup kitchen run by nuns and funded by self-help guru approved in California 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z In such, Ross claims Whateley was a nun who was his "lover and consort in their spiritual union". In search of Shakespeare's ghosts 2011-07-14T07:42:46Z The images show some of the mourners — black and white, young and old, nuns, sportsmen, schoolchildren — who, on a humid summer Saturday, came out to see a train pass by. Review | ‘The train was moving mournful slow’: Exhibit shows haunting photos of Bobby Kennedy’s final journey 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z So many children reportedly starved to death there, the nuns ran out of places to bury them; their bones were hidden in the walls of a new boarding school under construction. ‘Heart Berries’ Shatters a Pattern of Silence 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Notably, he won for a role in which his race wasn’t part of the story, playing a handyman helping some nuns in “Lilies of the Field.” From assassinations to 9/11: How the Oscars respond to political turmoil 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Utter the words "TV show about art" and chances are that you'll think harp music and agreeable nuns. Weird and cool 'Touching the Art' series heads to Art Basel 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Faces were shielded by fuzzy caps that looked like either a cross between a baseball cap and a nun’s habit or a military helmet and a pelican; feet were encased in patent wellies. London Fashion Comes Back to Life 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z I thought of Mike and our sad errand to New York and I looked at those nuns and believed they were praying for him. Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z The thieves were Northern Irish nuns who ran a slave-labor home for unwed pregnant girls — similar to the homes for “fallen girls” documented in The Magdalene Sisters, which won the Golden Lion here in 2002. Philomena at Venice: Reserve an Oscar for Judi Dench 2013-08-31T18:35:02Z The actresses playing these nuns include two erstwhile Bond girls: Gemma Arterton and Diana Rigg, who appears here in one of the final roles she shot before her death in September. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Black Narcissus’ and ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Even her name is an invention: she added “Mary,” she said, partly because it suggested to her a school waif being rapped on the knuckles by a scolding nun. Up Close: Andrea Mary Marshall, Photographer and Shape-Shifter Pursuing the Unsavory 2013-01-02T21:18:56Z Children dressing for Mass. An aunt who was once a nun. Review | Alice McDermott’s new novel begins with suicide and culminates in murder 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z There is a particularly fine chapter on the beguines, a sisterhood that wasn’t an order of nuns but rather a community of women, who — without men — worked and lived together. A new perspective on the birth of Europe in ‘The Edge of the World’ 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The nearby monastery has a list of rules by which the nuns live, including a dedication to silence and prayer. Perspective | Nontraditional lodging fills a need for pandemic travelers 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z As you may remember from grade school, homophones are words that are pronounced the same way but ultimately have different meanings, and often, different spellings, like “be” and “bee” or “none” and “nun.” Blogger allegedly fired from language school for teaching students about “homophonia” 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In bringing the story to the screen, Mr. Coogan relived in some ways Mr. Sixsmith’s experience, interviewing Ms. Lee, visiting the nuns at the home where she once lived, and traveling around with her. Carpetbagger: Steve Coogan Shares His Victory March 2014-01-16T18:21:00Z For her own protection, the police hide her in a convent where she masquerades as a Catholic nun. ‘Sister Act’ brings its roof-raising soul to Seattle 2013-08-15T19:19:13Z They have this kind of church university for priests and nuns. "All Creatures Great and Small" star on animals, slow-burn romance & what makes a Scottish Christmas 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Some of the nuns must have slept on the floor. Secrets of the convent: Will millennials become nuns? 2013-12-15T19:00:00Z I made a short film, Solitudo, about a medieval nun who meets the devil and he’s kind of funny. From Rosemary's Baby to Suspiria, five directors on cinema's scariest moments 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Onstage Robbins has a dominant persona, but in the presence of the nuns, it was replaced by an air of deference and humility. Soup kitchen run by nuns and funded by self-help guru approved in California 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Set in 1934, the story follows a group of nuns who try to establish a mission at a forlorn palace in the Himalayas. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Black Narcissus’ and ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z A British writer and former nun, Armstrong argues in her magisterial new book, “The Lost Art of Scripture,” that Scripture shouldn’t be interpreted literally or rigidly from a pulpit or in a library. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z In the first, he is five, and his mother is removing him from his school, Assumption, having realised the nuns were downgrading his tests because he liked to draw rather than sit still. Michael Peña: ‘Scientology made me a better actor’ 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z A younger, pointedly innocent nun, Sister James, develops and spreads suspicions of her own, before coming around to the priest’s side. Music Review: ‘Doubt,’ Adaptation Performed by Minnesota Opera 2013-02-03T23:24:03Z At this stage, these women might be nuns. ‘Symphonic Variations’: A Frederick Ashton Classic Returns 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z This gleefully twisted tale of the secret lives of nuns — in which the playwright doubles as leading lady — is Mr. Busch’s freshest, funniest work in years, perhaps decades. | 'The Divine Sister': No Doubt, Not a Typical Singing Nun 2010-09-23T02:03:00Z I was 13 when I took a wooden ruler, the kind meant to be wielded by a grimacing nun, and pressed one end against my crotch. Women obsess over the size of their privates, too 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z They had invited 14 men and one nun to testify. Gloria Steinem meets Gloria Allred: ‘Donald Trump has made us woke’ 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The Sound of Music All-new production of the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical about a would-be nun who becomes the governess for a large family in pre-WWII Austria. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 27-Oct. 4: 'Wicked Lit' and more 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Other crowd-pleasers included "Abraxas," a Japanese film about a married punk rocker turned Buddhist, and "Karma," a lighthearted Nepali film about two Tibetan nuns on a journey to get repayment of a loan. Thai Buddhist film festival seeks to spark faith 2012-06-22T11:01:04Z I entered the compound through a heavy wooden gate and saw nuns walking about the spacious lawn surrounding the monastery. The most striking aspect of Europe’s newest nation: Its normalcy 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z She rallies her fellow nuns to feign mass hysteria, a performance that Stone treats as a form of protest. Review: ‘The Devils of Loudun’ Offers No Escape From Horror 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Even the poignant scene in which the nuns are forced to don civilian clothes lacked bite; they seemed merely to be exchanging one uniform for another. Review: “Carmelites” is too cool, in every sense, in WNO debut 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z However, any hope of the theater veteran whipping out her "Sister Act"-inspired nun's habit was squelched during her run on the show. 13 memorable 'Glee' guest stars 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z I was a little crushed when the school nun gave the part to another kid. Steve Buscemi: ‘I feel I haven’t fulfilled my true potential' 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z A nun and Catholic peace activist who spent two years in federal prison while in her 80s after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Encounters with the nuns made us feel like friends who had stopped by for a visit. Romanian rhapsody — exploring an unsung destination in Eastern Europe 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z I would belt out as he toiled in the booth, dimming the lights because there were nuns in the audience. Modern Love: He’s Playing Our Song 2012-09-21T22:26:05Z Dolan also criticized a photo accompanying the play review, which he says showed a nun in a "suggestive pose." NY archbishop: NY Times reviews are insensitive 2010-10-22T16:01:00Z There are quite a few nuns, some of whom are objects of desire. Review: ‘The Love Object’ by Edna O’Brien 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z It was a boarding school, repository for unwanted children, and abbey for Capuchin nuns. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z And Morgan has spent the past four episodes fully clothed and bickering with a nun. Camelot: episode six 2011-07-10T21:09:00Z Growing up within the confines of her traditional family, Pepe described the future her mother envisioned for her as one of limited options: bank teller, nurse, teacher, nun. Imagine Spider-Woman With a Crochet Hook 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z “At some point I remember what the Sacred Heart nuns told me,” she said about her Catholic education. Ana Navarro and the P-Word 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The number featured a bevy of dancing nuns, sailors, flight attendants and Mormons: "Attention every breeder, you're invited to the theater!" Tony awards, 2011: Big winners and Northwest connections 2011-06-13T04:29:05Z I feel like even though she’s a contemplative nun and I’m a Buddhist character actor, we have a lot in common. Suzy Nakamura Informs Herself With ‘The Dollop,’ Sister Wendy and Her Mother’s Diary 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z A few days after the article was published, Pope Francis acknowledged the issue of widespread abuse against nuns for the first time. The Vatican editor who exposed the sexual abuse of nuns – and took on the Pope 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Thus spoke again a woman raised by nuns. Border walls aren't about security — they're about preventing empathy 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z In one story, a nun commits suicide by driving into livestock. An Ex-Jesuit Who Wrote Tales of an Ironic God 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Nuns aren’t always in stories to serve as exemplars of goodness, of course: Chaucer’s nun was a phony. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a troupe of drag queens dressed as naughty nuns, give tours in the upstairs galleries. Seattle's Sandra Jackson-Dumont makes art a party 2011-05-26T18:46:02Z “All I do is pay attention,” Lady Bird protests, to which the nun replies: The 10 best lines from movies in 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The film, set in Poland in the 1960s, tells the story of a nun who discovers she's Jewish. Playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz: 'I had evil thoughts as a child' 2013-01-20T19:59:01Z At one point in its history, it housed a convent where the bodies of dead nuns sat in a stone chamber, their decay reminding the surviving sisters of the transience of life. Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Seizing the opportunity to move into an apartment vacated for three months, he transforms into an avenging angel while forming a relationship with a nun played by Polish actress Agata Buzek. Hard man actor Jason Statham hopes new film shows softer side 2013-06-18T12:58:38Z Imagine a Renaissance-era nun, a mystic in the throes of dying, uttering her visions and predictions in sporadic, rapid-fire bursts while novices stand guard trying to understand and write down her words. Review: Cantata Profana Captures the Death of a Saint 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z In the Christian sense, they’re fools for Christ: virtually every bit of violence they cause is for the greater good of bailing out the nuns and their adorable charges. The Three Stooges: When Slapstick Meets Sentiment 2012-04-12T17:00:17Z They then drew parallels to “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” which follows a convent of Carmelite nuns pressured to renounce their vocation during the French Revolution. Using deaf actors, Victory Hall Opera continues to push boundaries 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Like Mother Dolores, 73, the Benedictine order's nuns have taken a vow of stability with the intent to live, work and die at the complex. Nun famous for kissing Elvis prays for miracle 2011-12-24T04:08:04Z “While in El Salvador, reporters were shown horrendous images of violence that were never broadcast, including depictions of nuns who were murdered,” he said. O'Reilly defends his war reporting record again, this time in El Salvador 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z But nuns have it hard enough lately; they don’t need 18th-century French lit to pile on. ArtsBeat: Reading Suggestions for Religious Fiction 2012-05-31T17:00:23Z My mother was one of the few who stayed through weekends and holidays; those left to help the nuns clean the chalk boards and smack erasers, and scrub the latrines and sinks. What we tell our sons about rape 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Authors give us books about nuns as their own stays against mortal agony. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z And there are outspoken, controversial activist nuns like Sister Simone Campbell, who led a recent bus tour to protest the effect of Republican Party economic policies on the poor. ‘Sister Act’ brings its roof-raising soul to Seattle 2013-08-15T19:19:13Z People often think nuns are funny or quirky: sitting in chapel all day and praying, living on another planet. Another view on?Sister Act 2010-08-29T21:16:00Z But, there's a small faction of society, myself, Simone the nun included, that believe she is evil and don't trust her. "Mrs. Davis" star Betty Gilpin on her risk-taking acting style: "I like playing high stakes" 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z I am not saying they should dress like nuns or adopt a pantsuits “r” us mentality. Is It Time for Wonder Woman to Hang Up Her Bathing Suit? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z To him, what is right is what he’s been taught, the values of his community: what priests and parents and nuns say about correct, Christian behavior. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Do the Right Thing 2011-11-07T13:07:05Z “I asked our nun if I could have that part, and she said: ‘Oh no, I’m giving the part to another kid.’ Steve Buscemi: ‘I feel I haven’t fulfilled my true potential' 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Bernardo Ruiz’s documentary — which focuses on a nun, a Texas rancher and a Homeland Security officer — explores the root causes of the drug war behind this loss. Holiday Releases: Dinosaurs, Divas, Archers and Tie Fighters 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z We visited a Buddhist nunnery, where dozens of young nuns were living; we were told this is one way for a girl from a poor family to get an education. The best way to see thousands of temples in central Burma: Hot-air balloon 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z On the streets of the Macedonian capital, stalls sell postcards and memorabilia with the nun's picture while visitors take in sites dedicated to the Nobel peace prize winner such as a memorial museum and statues. In Skopje, residents proud of native Mother Teresa canonization 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Some years ago, the artist Andrea Büttner began to see a peculiar image in her mind: a group of nuns, dancing. Andrea B?ttner: the habit of art 2011-03-14T22:00:01Z He clashed with the nuns at school and bounced between jobs. In Alex Trebek’s Reluctant, Moving Memoir, Life Is All About the Next Question 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Sister Mary Clara leafs through the pages of an album; at one time, a superior gave one of these small photo albums to each nun. Secrets of the convent: Will millennials become nuns? 2013-12-15T19:00:00Z The menacing Sister Jude is, oddly and amusingly, a proto-feminist who resents her secondary status as a nun subordinate to “patriarchal males.” Television Review: ‘American Horror Story’ on FX Begins Second Season 2012-10-16T23:27:18Z Come closer, and you see that images of French aristocrats have been replaced by images of black nuns and goddesses, and well-dressed white lynching victims hang from trees. Worth the Ride: 5 Surprising Exhibition Spaces in Upstate New York 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The rest catch a break thanks to Michael Barrett having limited medical skills; his talents get the attention of some nuns who work for Carlyle. The comic book “Lazarus” is a frightening vision of where America could be headed 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Not least, there are occasional intertextual nods, as when Toad’s motorcycle narrowly misses “a nun incautiously leading a double file of small girls in yellow hats,” one of them doubtless named Madeline. A gently feminist sequel to the classic children’s book ‘The Wind in the Willows’ 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z But celibate nuns are not the only ones whose image of God is painted in sexual hues. God is not a prude: This is why religion remains so sex-obsessed, why we pretend Jesus was born of a virgin 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein had nuns in “The Sound of Music” sing of Martin’s character as “a moonbeam,” “a wave upon the sand.” Mary Martin — from Weatherford, Tex., to Broadway stardom 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z I wanted to create a character, a nun, who embodied this contradiction. This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Sobel's memorable prose relies on letters between Galileo and his oldest daughter, a nun, to shine new light on the iconic astronomer. Stuart Clark's top 10 approachable astronomy books 2010-08-18T09:22:00Z On Saturday a website set up to back the nuns’ legal battle carried a picture of Holzman with the caption, “Rest with the angels our most precious treasure.” Nun fighting sale of convent to Katy Perry dies in court 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z “What would it look like carried out by a group of nuns,” Slater wondered, “or by a rabbi or a Southern Baptist faith healer?” On rebooted ‘Exorcist,’ a new way to get rid of demons: Hugging it out 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z But the nuns who are among us remain ecclesiastical workhorses. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z And to European eyes certain types of Mexican portraits — of nuns wearing hand-painted badges like breastplates, and arriviste urban matrons showing off their wealth — must have had a picaresque appeal. ‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z There's a fantastic YouTube clip of you in 1973, wearing a nun's outfit, singing with David Bowie at the Marquee club. Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent' 2013-01-10T19:00:00Z A forbidden radio is acquired, and news of missing relatives trickles in; Lourdes and another nun sneak out to secret meetings in a nearby town. Movie Review: In ‘Apparition,’ a Philippine Drama, Nuns Face Civil Strife 2013-07-09T18:21:34Z There follow heavy sales of an album, a spot on Ed Sullivan’s television show and a great deal of delicate courtship of the singing nun by her old friend. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Wow, I was not expecting Jane Lynch to be dressed as the angry nun from Game of Thrones, but I can’t be happier that she is. Emmys 2015: winners and performances – as it happened 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z She once told The Times she was “a lousy nun.” The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Of course, said Sister Mary Catharine, nuns are notorious for not turning the ringer on. Growing Pains for the Dominican Nuns of Summit 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z In the twentieth century, orders of Catholic nuns in Ireland effectively incarcerated women and forced them to perform unpaid labor, in the Magdalene Laundries. How Sharon Horgan Shaped a Monstrous Brother-in-Law 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z “But mine were very Irish nuns, and his were angry Italian nuns who beat people up.” Albert Innaurato, Playwright Who Lit Up Broadway in ’70s, Dies at 70 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Yes, it’s based on the true story of a murderer on death row and a nun’s fight to save his life, but it’s steeped in operatic tradition. ‘Dead Man Walking’ is a new opera for old audiences 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Kisses, cunning, backup dancers in body suits with nuns’ habits. ‘Marry Me’ Review: Putting ‘I Do’ on the To-Do List 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z In the bathroom stall next to her, there was another, more experienced nun doing the same thing. "The Turning": The dark side of Mother Teresa's order, according to nuns who left 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z The train slowed at the next station, and two elderly nuns boarded, followed by a young Indian girl. Modern Love: Signs, Wonders and Fates Fulfilled 2010-02-20T06:33:00Z “There are more than 50 percent more nuns and sisters in the world than priests.” Timothy Egan Makes Room for the Holy Spirit 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z One nun remembers wanting to be “anything but a nun.” ‘Band of Sisters’: Nuns’ story of change, activism 2013-04-11T20:39:06Z He kept shaking his head and saying, ‘How can I hire the flying nun?’ Perspective | Sally Field, on Broadway and on a mission 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Her agents at ICM dropped her upon seeing the film; the nuns at her old school in Rome called to say they were praying for her. “David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Whatever ideas I had about religion came from pop culture—Whoopi Goldberg teaching choir in nun's robes, those angels who loved baseball in "Angels in the Outfield." My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Though their faces are never nude, their bodies frequently are, and would it surprise you to learn that when these lithe nuns strip down, they’re as toned and well-manicured as a Playboy centerfold? Cannes Film Festival: The Director of ‘Showgirls’ Takes On Lesbian Nuns 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z This is not one of those Hollywood movies about happy nuns with fulfilled vocations. Beyond the Hills – review 2013-03-17T00:05:37Z Early in the 20th century, five British nuns are sent into the Himalayas to establish a school, hospital and convent in a decrepit mansion perched on a cliff. ‘Black Narcissus’ Review: Nuns, Mountains, High Passion 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z She says her supervisor, a nun, sent her to a nanny away from home to hide the pregnancy. Mother, daughter meet for first time in 52 years 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z In Walker’s story, the Europeans find the nun charmant and primitive. Black Women Writers and the Secret Space of Diaries 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z With the help of artisan nuns in Kenya known as the "crochet sisters," the line includes their black, hand-knotted skirt and fitted dress trimmed in leather. Fashion world marks Sept. 11 as shows go on 2011-09-12T15:55:19Z Three nuns in full habit occasionally appear, never uttering a word, their faces completely covered in white. Review: In Sara Fellini’s ‘In Vestments,’ Haunted by More Than Ghosts 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z He was the handyman in “Lilies of the Field” who builds a church for a group of nuns. Oscar winner and groundbreaking star Sidney Poitier dies 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z And American country singer Carrie Underwood, who will star as the aspiring nun who brings song into the home of a strict Austrian widower, says she cringes when she hears the word "re-make." Favorite things get a twist in new U.S. TV version of 'Sound of Music' 2013-11-26T13:07:16Z Ms. Miller’s Deloris hides out in a convent under the name Sister Mary Clarence and turns its choir of nuns into the talk of late 1970s Philadelphia. The Week Ahead: April 17 ? 23 2011-04-15T14:13:52Z The nuns were saying that mas-tur-bat-ing was on the same level of sinning as murder.” Talking Sex With Dad (in the Ford Taurus) 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z But how do you detach that from the lovely little nuns that you know? Q&A: Lauren Laverne 2011-02-27T00:04:05Z She learned to sew at Aubazine, which was run by nuns as an orphanage. Chanel walks models through a tranquil cloister garden in Paris 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Minot’s version of the story opens when the school is attacked and a brave nun pursues her students’ abductors, bargaining for their return. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls’: surviving suffering in Uganda 2014-03-26T19:50:24Z I mean, it's not as if I was wearing a nun costume or any costume, for that matter. Motherlode Blog: Home-Schooling, Comic Con Style (Part 1) 2012-10-16T21:33:22Z According to Mr. Schwartz, one of every 20 inhabitants was either a monk or a nun, because the town was a home to prestigious monasteries. From Hell to Heaven in the Hometown of Bosch 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z “Doesn’t the camp have your number in case they need to call you?” the nun asked. Four days of silence 2012-10-16T00:00:00Z He recalled his childhood, when the reservations lacked indoor plumbing and were ruled by nuns who punished kids for speaking their own language. The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Juggling themes of atonement, exploitation and religious skepticism — one character remarks that the nuns won’t last long because of “a greater infection than their faith” — Hyett proves more successful with atmosphere than plot. ‘The Convent’ Review: Twisted Sisters 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Opening credits play over recurring scenes of cloistered nuns shrugging off their shapeless smocks and dancing before a towering neon cross. Review: ‘The New Pope’ on HBO: Faith, Hope and Sponge Baths 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z He’s been accused of murder, wife beating, insanity and urinating on nuns. It’s been 37 years since John Lennon was shot. Can we find the real Lennon in books? 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Co“nun”drum: How do you solve a problem like Maria? Style Invitational Week 1359: Back up in the ‘air’ 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Their tone is bracingly unsentimental, as is clear from the first swear words uttered by the chain-smoking nun who patrols the women’s prison where Mata Hari awaits her verdict. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z In the final scene the brave nuns, now in frumpy dresses, walk one by one to the guillotine amid a jeering crowd as they sing a wistful “Salve Regina.” Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z “The Nunsense Story” ran for 38 weeks and featured three nuns, a priest and a brother. Back Together: ?Nunsense? and Cherry Lane Theater 2010-06-17T22:11:00Z El-Mahroug confirmed Friday what other witnesses have testified previously: that at some of the soirees, young female party guests had dressed up like nuns and danced for Berlusconi and then stripped down to their underwear. Berlusconi’s parties featured women dressed as Obama 2013-05-17T16:10:00Z The young nun quickly became an Internet superstar after her first appearance on The Voice. Singing Nun Becomes Winner Of Italy's 'The Voice' 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The L’Heureux pantheon is filled out by nuns, college students, bored housewives and teenagers figuring how and where to sin most effectively. An Ex-Jesuit Who Wrote Tales of an Ironic God 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z In the early 1920s Christensen, a Danish director, used innovative lighting and staging techniques to create macabre scenes of grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns and satanic rituals. What’s on TV Tuesday: Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ and ‘Haxan’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z It's subjective, because there is something genuinely offensive about a nun smoking a cigar and getting drunk opposed to a nun surfing. "When stupidity is elevated": "Airplane!" filmmakers reveal the secrets to their deadpan success 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Bill writes that when he was about twelve, a nun in his Catholic school told him, “You no longer need to do homework because you are one of God’s special children.” I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z If Cardinal Ratzinger, the scourge of left-wing theologians and activist nuns, could not tame a hierarchy bent on hiding abuse, and could not engage the post-Christian world honestly and openly, who can? Pope Benedict the liberal? 2013-02-12T20:02:00Z Somewhere between “The Collision” and “The Martyrdom” is a holy middle ground of oddity and structure, chaos and order, that would make even a Saxon nun from the 10th century say, “Amen.” ‘The Collision’ and ‘The Martyrdom’ Review: A Nun Ahead of Her Time 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z A young nun is sent to investigate claims of abuse at a school in Iceland, and while she is there, the headmaster dies under mysterious circumstances. 9 Books to Watch For in December 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Your hint: this nun is standing on the tomb of the mother of a historical figure. In Transit: Guess Where This Is 2011-06-09T16:50:48Z “I’d be a nun or a Boy Scout, whatever I could do to express myself.” The Stylist B. Akerlund on Her Looks for Beyoncé and Other Stars 2013-12-19T01:04:06Z With a rigid ex-army father, and educated by nuns, he started to rebel. John Callahan obituary 2010-08-17T17:15:00Z Their disobedience results in violence and shame, which Mr. Sandoval cleverly uses to examine not only the moral failings of the senior nuns but also the paternalism of the Roman Catholic church. Movie Review: In ‘Apparition,’ a Philippine Drama, Nuns Face Civil Strife 2013-07-09T18:21:34Z And, of course, there have been plenty of fictional nuns who have captured the public’s imagination. Living the #ConventLife 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z “Rebel Hearts” examines the Immaculate Heart Community in Los Angeles, where a group of revolutionary nuns challenged the male Catholic hierarchy in the 1960s and ’70s. AFI Docs shows us where the histories are buried, and why that matters more than ever 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Grandpa continues working as a bartender; Grandma takes a job at a retirement home for nuns. Review | TV writer Danielle Henderson finds the humor in her own harrowing life story 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Baby's wealth and beauty ensured a string of admirers, including the seventh Earl of Longford, who noted her devout Catholic faith, likening her to "a very friendly and fascinating nun". Lost Evelyn Waugh letters reveal thwarted love for 'bright young thing' 2013-07-20T23:06:02Z But then I went to help nuns in Soviet Estonia, and coming out of that I met a producer from the Swiss Film Institute, and she asked me, “What are you doing?” Shhh, Don't Tell Other Directors: Working With Kids Is Easy 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z “When I was your age, the nuns told us that mas-tur-ba-tion” — his was so uncomfortable with the word, he almost added an extra syllable — “was a mortal sin.” Talking Sex With Dad (in the Ford Taurus) 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z “My catechism teacher, a white nun with sky-blue eyes, taught me that god is omnipresent,” she recalls. An Account of Surviving Assault Mixes Horror and Humor 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z By contrast, Mother Marie, the assistant prioress, has persuaded the nuns to take a vow of martyrdom but allows herself to be convinced that God has given her an escape. Music Review: Juilliard Presents ?Dialogues des Carm?lites? 2010-04-22T21:17:00Z “While in El Salvador, reporters were shown horrendous images of violence that were never broadcast, including depictions of nuns who were murdered,” he said in the statement. O’Reilly clarifies remarks about what he saw in Northern Ireland 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Then the British suffragist in the 1800s, and an American nun at the University of Michigan in the 1950s. ‘The Collision’ and ‘The Martyrdom’ Review: A Nun Ahead of Her Time 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z But as a nun, a woman, she must acknowledge that her power is limited and at the last minute a proper burial is denied. In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z The Mother is in hot pursuit of Tarantula, a baddie who is seen knocking over children and nuns to get away. J.Lo takes charge in Netflix's gruesome action-thriller "The Mother" 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The news agency said Thursday that Fischbacher’s sister, a nun who lives in Munich, confirmed his death of cancer. Report: Illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher dies in Las Vegas 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z The nun masks are a nice touch, too. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z She was a playwright whose lyrical drama, “Ordo Virtutum” is excerpted in a scene in which the nuns, as they were allowed to do on certain holidays, frolic in silk gowns and jewels. | 'Vision': A Multitasking Nun in Medieval Germany 2010-10-12T22:37:00Z This week: A nun and a priest walk into an award-winning drama, a suburban mom sings of her mental illness in a hit musical, and a man romances an extraterrestrial in a new sci-fi comedy. L.A. theater openings, Aug. 14-21: 'My Girlfriend Is an Alien! by Neil DeFacto' and more 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Or by the usual suspects – sinister villagers, mad nuns, God. Game of Thrones; Jonathan Creek – TV review 2013-04-02T06:00:03Z She told the audience: "We Catholic nuns are all about redemption." Christian comedy wins four Razzies 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Kneeling in heart-stoppingly cold water to pray while two nuns held my hands left me, inexplicably, in floods of tears. 'A holy Blackpool' 2010-03-30T20:00:00Z The former’s parentage was somewhat scandalous by the standards of the time: he was the illegitimate son of the Carmelite friar and painter Fra Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Buti, a nun. Special Report: The New Art Season: The Renaissance Flowers Again 2011-09-07T10:30:06Z On street level, we passed nuns in habits and tourists like me passing through. Overnighter: In Toledo, Layers of Spanish History 2012-12-21T16:56:55Z She credited a nun at St. Teresa’s Academy in Kansas City with putting her on the right path. Julie Garwood, Best-Selling Romance Novelist, Dies at 78 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Moran mostly avoids the obvious jokes about Roman Catholicism, and the musical doesn’t consider a nun’s habit a laugh line. New York Musical Theater Festival Includes ‘Deep Love’ and ‘Pope!’ 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Some nuns housed him in their convent near the Spanish Steps. The Cinematography of Darius Khondji 2012-07-15T00:23:01Z O'Brien was educated at a convent, where she fell in love with a nun; for Christmas, she bought her, devotedly, a pair of pink, striped bed socks. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-09-29T23:05:14Z “She was a dynamo, one of those women fashion executives or journalists who were sometimes called fashion nuns because they were not married, had no children and devoted themselves to their work.” Helen O’Hagan, Fashion Executive Who Personified Saks, Dies at 89 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z And in 2005 she completed Presentation Sisters at a convent in Cork: a muted collective portrait of the few nuns left and the domestic rituals with which they filled the days. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z “It was a December of crows,” she writes just before introducing us to the convent of the Good Shepherd nuns. Review | ‘Small Things Like These’ reads like a Christmas classic 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z You’d be hard pressed to find a warmer place to spend Christmas night than Nonnatus House, the fictional London convent where the nuns of “Call the Midwife” practice their craft. What’s on TV This Week: Kennedy Center Honors and ‘Insecure’ 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Hess redressed the omission in his second film, “Nacho Libre,” a comedy about a priest and a nun, and then raised his ideas, and his ideals, to a cosmic dimension in “Gentlemen Broncos.” Jared Hess’s Spiritual Gross-Out Comedy, in “Masterminds” 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Women in long skirts and headscarves stand in line, heads bent in front of a seated nun who holds a volume open. Fair Swamped by Second Raters 2010-03-12T12:30:00Z Mr. Whipple said that nuns were among his most fervent admirers. Frank Whipple, Whose Nun Paintings Drew Hollywood Fans, Dies at 93 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Sister Wendy is the art historian and nun whose TV series was popular in the 1990s. Free events scheduled at McClung Museum 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z When the wimples start quivering, the pinched mouths break into sunbeam smiles, and the nuns start rocking to raise the Gothic rafters, all’s right in the kingdom of musical comedy at “Sister Act.” | 'Sister Act': Different Church, More Sequins 2011-04-21T02:30:24Z She’s a contemplative nun, where they live in isolation, but she leaves the monastery to talk about art. Suzy Nakamura Informs Herself With ‘The Dollop,’ Sister Wendy and Her Mother’s Diary 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z The nuns were indulgent and never edited out one blessed word, no matter how biting and “un Christian”. Rex Reed Bangs a Gong on the Mediocrity of Modern Life 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The crowd may be breathless in an agony of fear, but he’s as calm and expressionless as a nun. A fond farewell to Ringling Bros. and the wonders of the circus 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Federico Fellini’s 1972 movie “Roma” was a caustic critique of the Catholic Church, ridiculing priests and nuns dressed in “Vatican chic.” Fashion Review: Donna Karan: Three Decades in Fashion 2014-02-11T15:42:46Z Bergman, who had played a nun and a saint, became pregnant with their son, scandalizing the world. Ingrid Bergman, As Time Goes By 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Such is the status of the nun acclaimed for her work in the slums of the Indian city now known as Kolkata. Mother Teresa borne to sainthood by complex, mysterious process 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z She tells of Providence Portland Medical Center, a system founded by nuns, that turned into “a weird mix of Mother Teresa and Goldman Sachs.” Paperback Row 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Christie's described it as a whimsical representation of original sin showing a portly nun, with a bible in her left hand and the forbidden fruit in her right. Surrealist, Mexican works poised to lead NY Latin American art auctions 2012-11-16T23:07:45Z I’d been boarding at a seminary, where the nice people were the nuns who dispensed the food. Dan Aykroyd: ‘Squirrels? They taste better than rattlesnake’ 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z She was not much taller than Larraine and wore wire glasses and a nun’s expression: warm but distant. No place like home: America’s eviction epidemic 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z The Drukpa nuns say they believe they are helping to change attitudes. 'Kung Fu' nuns bike Himalayas to oppose human trafficking 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Inside, however, I found myself dancing next to a hedgehog wearing a top hat, an anime nun with an acid green halo and a humanoid fox in hot pants. Finding Community, and Freedom, on the Virtual Dance Floor 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Sant’Ambrogio was “enclosed,” meaning that the nuns were sequestered from all contact with the outside world apart from rare interviews conducted through metal bars and visits from priestly confessors or doctors. Nuns gone bad: Why you should read this lurid tale of a lesbian nun sex gang 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Catholic nuns have for years been in the front line in the fight against human trafficking. Nuns, backed by pope, warn of human trafficking at World Cup 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z Dexter's staging looks barely touched by time and remains a marvel of simplicity, starting with the opening image of 13 nuns lying prostrate with arms outstretched on a raised wooden platform shaped like a cross. Review: Stirring revival of Poulenc opera at Met 2013-05-06T12:51:11Z Nobody would have guessed that “Lust’s Leading Lady,” as Romantic Times magazine labeled her, traced her writing career to St. Mary’s, a school for girls run by Anglican nuns in Peekskill, N.Y. Bertrice Small, 77, Writer of Risqué Romance Novels, Dies 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Maria von Trapp and the nuns helping her into her wedding dress were finding it difficult to execute a tricky maneuver. How do you solve a problem like updating 'Sound of Music'? Director is on the case 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z And an interlude on a tiny island, where the kidnapped Xiumi awaits her fate, accompanied by a Buddhist nun, is properly foreboding. From Turkey to China to Norway, These Novels Take You Back in Time 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z While the ecclesiastical hierarchy colluded with the government, opposition came in the actions of individual priests, monks and nuns. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z Women are portrayed as unstable or immoral if they have lived anything other than the life of a cloistered nun, Smith said. ‘I felt angry that it took so long’: Gretchen Carlson on Roger Ailes’s ouster from Fox News 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z O’Reilly said in a statement this week that he was describing photos of the murdered nuns, not the crimes themselves. O’Reilly clarifies remarks about what he saw in Northern Ireland 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z At convent school in Hastings, "poverty, chastity and obedience were the rules of the nuns". Joanna Lumley: 'I'm a happy person. But injustice I loathe' 2010-04-02T23:12:00Z Known for producing a groundbreaking body of work that combined faith, activism, snippets of found text and bold color, Kent was a Catholic nun who also had a prolific career as a fine art printer. Datebook: New works by Mark Bradford, street art temple, the end of men 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Through careful maneuvering she secures the nuns their own well-situated convent after one nun in her flock becomes pregnant and commits suicide. | 'Vision': A Multitasking Nun in Medieval Germany 2010-10-12T22:37:00Z Characters include a singing undertaker, a wet farmer, three residents of Windsor Terrace and an ex-con who teams up with a nun. Theater Listings for Aug. 28-Sept. 3 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z In the end, he watches helplessly as Renata, now in a convent, is subjected to a brutal exorcism, even as her fellow nuns succumb to her demons. Review: ‘The Fiery Angel,’ Devilishly Tough Prokofiev 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Lenny Belardo is an orphan left by his hippie parents to be raised by nuns in an orphanage in the United States. In HBO’s ‘The Young Pope,’ the Vatican Gets an Eccentric New Resident 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Dos Santos became a nun and died in 2005 at the age of 97, and efforts are underway to make her a saint as well. Pope canoness Fatima visionaries, giving Church new children saints 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z She senses few hindrances relating to the older nuns because of age differences or generation gaps. Secrets of the convent: Will millennials become nuns? 2013-12-15T19:00:00Z He painted some with owls, and one day, on an impulse, he painted a rock with a wimpled nun. Frank Whipple, Whose Nun Paintings Drew Hollywood Fans, Dies at 93 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Today, Benedictine nuns live here, and a respectful order of silence is in place along the shady path, ensuring that these well-trodden cobblestones are among the most peaceful in Bruges. A Weekend in Bruges: Beyond Cobbled Lanes and Medieval Canals 2012-02-23T16:11:54Z Back in the early 90s – rather more alarmingly – Touchstone Pictures wanted him to direct Sister Act, the Whoopi Goldberg vehicle about singing nuns. Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z His life petered out into a sad, isolated existence, this quintessential American dying in 1951 in a hospital outside Rome, with only an anonymous Franciscan nun in attendance. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Their debut album, "Voices - Chant from Avignon," will feature an ancient style of the Gregorian Chant which the nuns at convent sing at least 8 times a day starting before dawn. French nuns to sing on Lady Gaga label 2010-07-25T12:06:00Z Charles took his seat among the nuns and priests, and without batting an eyelash, watched as they introduced his son as a girl from out of town here to sing Dodie Stevens’ “Pink Shoe Laces.” WA’s pioneering gay country band Lavender Country releases first new album in 50 years 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Finally, I began to speak about my month in the desert, about my confusion regarding my decision to become a nun. Modern Love: Signs, Wonders and Fates Fulfilled 2010-02-20T06:33:00Z Best-selling Seattle-area author’s latest novel, part of her Ali Reynolds series, spins a mystery that involves computer hacking, kidnapping, globe-trotting — and a Taser-carrying nun. LOCAL BOOKS 2014-03-03T19:18:10Z A few weeks after I decided to become a nun, I grew so sick that it hurt to breathe. Modern Love: Signs, Wonders and Fates Fulfilled 2010-02-20T06:33:00Z When I was a kindergartner at All Saints School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the nuns one day marched us out to the public library’s bookmobile and I was issued a library card. John Sandford: By the Book 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Today, there’s no such thing as too many nuns, as few women are taking vows. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z They are, in other words, complete mysteries, their distance intensified because the hoods evoke monks’ or nuns’ habits. What to See in New York City Art Galleries This Week 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The best-actor award came in 1964 for his performance in the low-budget “Lilies of the Field,” as an itinerant handyman helping a group of German nuns build a church in the Southwestern desert. Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z In those days, Catholic schools and the nuns who taught at them were strict. Perspective | Losing fans’ respect may be a punishment the Astros won’t forget 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z While Alice makes tea and scones, Mrs. Croft broaches the subject of June’s ungenteel public behavior, most recently an incident involving a couple of novitiate nuns June has been accused of groping in a taxicab. Theater Review: Kathleen Turner in ‘Killing of Sister George’ at Long Wharf 2012-12-07T23:03:45Z One woman remembers being inspired by the dedication of nuns who gave their lives in El Salvador — a debacle that can now be discussed in harshly political terms. ‘Band of Sisters’: Nuns’ story of change, activism 2013-04-11T20:39:06Z Theresa Riordan owes much to a series of mentors, including the wonderful Milwaukee nuns who rescued her from a difficult home life. Mary Gordon’s latest offers thoughtful characters in the throes of change People dress in inappropriate Halloween costumes all the time, whether it's the egregious cultural appropriation or the over-sexualization of nuns or minors, yuck. The year's worst Halloween couple costume, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, indicates a disturbing trend 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z Her parents, both Protestants, sent her to a Roman Catholic boarding school run by French-speaking nuns. Mavis Gallant, Short-Story Writer, Dies at 91 2014-02-18T19:55:45Z This cued monks, nuns, retreatants and staff not to engage with me. Four days of silence 2012-10-16T00:00:00Z White swans dotted a dark canal as I crossed a tiny brick footbridge into a walled community of a few remaining cloistered Benedictine nuns, the Beguinage that dates from the 13th century. Why early-morning walks are the best way for travelers to explore new places 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Plaza plays Sister Fernanda, a nun with a foul mouth, a passion for sex, and a dark secret. Aubrey Plaza: “I’m way more boring that people would hope” 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Remember the nuns on the bus? how many of them were under 70? A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z The film stars Poitier as nomadic former G.I. who stumbles upon a group of Roman Catholic nuns living in the Arizona desert, and eventually helps them build a chapel. What’s on TV This Week: ‘In Cold Blood’ and ‘The Black Church’ 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z And Zen Cho’s latest fantasy offering is the delightful “The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water,” about a nun joining a group of bandits on the run. Perspective | The best science fiction and fantasy of the year so far — plus what we’re looking forward to next 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z But it is thought that the nuns in Las Huelgas, a Cistercian convent for noblewomen in north-central Spain, enthusiastically flouted the rule. Music Review: Anonymous 4 at Corpus Christi Church - Review 2011-10-25T22:00:50Z The American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön offers advice on learning to relax with the “groundlessness” of reality in her book The Wisdom Of No Escape. Is expecting the worst the best way to handle the coronavirus crisis? 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z I’m not Catholic, but it meant a lot to me, the picture of those nuns. Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z The families that inherit the table include a gay couple, a nun who gives herself to a leopard-hunter, and a commune in which the inhabitants have bad hair and not much better faith. Table; Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-20T23:08:26Z Tucked away off Ladbroke Grove in central London sits the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, home since 1878 to an order of Carmelite nuns. Film review: No Greater Love 2010-04-08T22:10:00Z Nunsense A group of nuns stages a variety show/fundraiser in this musical comedy. L.A. theater openings, Dec. 6-13: Cirque du Soleil's 'Kurios' and more 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Important parts of the action occur in a sanatorium, where the psychotic Odette is guarded by nuns; the even more important parts happen in her mind, where she dreams of ballet and swans. Dance Review: ‘Swan Lake’ by Australian Ballet at Koch Theater 2012-06-17T22:05:37Z Instead, she lavishes attention on her cocktails, which she approaches with the punctiliousness of a lab technician and the purity of a nun. Up Close: The Antibanter Bartender 2011-01-11T21:35:32Z Who else but the poor and the suffering, she asks a younger, more rational nun at dinner, would have visions of heaven? The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z His T-shirt is emblazoned with an image of the murdered nun and environmental activist, Dorothy Stang, and her words, “The end of the forest is the end of our life.” Bees in Amazon 'are greatest ally to halt rainforest destruction' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z In 1945, she was in Poland when a nun took her to a remote convent in a frozen landscape. Film-maker tells story of Polish nuns’ secret pregnancies after mass rape by Stalin’s troops 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z I never quite got back to those gun-toting nuns, did I? Theater Review: A ‘Comedy of Errors’ Unfolds in the ’40s, With Fedoras 2013-06-19T02:00:01Z He collaborated with two Dominican friars and some nuns. Perspective | I’ve seen plenty of beautiful artworks. But the Matisse Chapel overwhelmed me. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The neighborhood of this particular strangeness is a remote abbey in 1952 Romania, where a nun hangs herself in a prologue. Review: In ‘The Nun,’ a Franchise Resumes Its Scary Habits 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z One day, a young nun appears and pleads with Mathilde to make an emergency visit to a Benedictine convent to save the life of a sister who lies gravely ill. Review: In ‘The Innocents,’ Not Even Nuns Are Spared War Horrors 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z When a nun is killed and a fellow sister thinks it’s the work of a ghost, Houdini and Doyle make a bet with each other over whether spirituality or science can solve the case. Houdini & Doyle: new show can't free itself from shackles of old formula 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The commencement speaker was an activist Catholic nun who emphasized solidarity with the global oppressed and midwifing a new world of social justice. Should graduation ceremonies be multi-faith? 2013-05-17T15:46:00Z In real life the singing nun left the convent, but not with a boyfriend. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z There, the Benedictine nuns taught her to sing Latin Masses and Gregorian chants. Florence Henderson, Upbeat Mom of ‘The Brady Bunch,’ Dies at 82 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z When she finally covers her body late in the movie, it's to put on a nun's habit and strafe a riot of knife-wielding Mexicans with a submachine gun. Lindsay Lohan returns to theaters, as naked junkie 2010-09-01T11:50:00Z Fittingly for quarantine, I’m reading “The Martian,” by Andy Weir, and Dylan Meconis’s graphic novel “Queen of the Sea,” about a young girl living with a convent of nuns on a remote island. Raina Telgemeier Can’t Wait to Break Bread With Her Friends Again 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z The team also had the full support of the faculty, which, of course, were mostly nuns. 45 years ago, the first nationally televised women’s college basketball game was a blowout 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z A dozen years later, he’s a shuffling shell and she’s a disfigured recluse; so they open their rambling California farmhouse to a young nun and a clutch of orphaned girls. Review: In ‘Annabelle: Creation,’ Orphans Are Child’s Play for a Doll 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The EEGs of Carmelite nuns have shown marked changes during mystical experiences when they felt they were at one with God. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z For some reason, they alighted on a childlike acoustic ditty called Dominique, sung by a Dominican nun from Waterloo called Sister Luc Gabriel. Belgian music now: from Antwerp to Waterloo 2012-07-03T11:45:19Z The exaggerated torsos and spindly limbs of the dolls that hung over his bed — nuns, bullfighters, skeletons — provided a template for his work throughout his life. José Luis Cuevas, a Dark Master of Mexican Art, Dies at 83 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The Ruscum, by the way, is produced at a convent by Cistercian nuns, who in addition to vineyards have orchards and gardens, which they farm organically. Orange Wines: A Genre With a Large Gray Area 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z If a French nun without hierarchical standing seems an unlikely candidate to investigate abuse allegations, this is soon explained: Sister Johanna Marie is fluent in Icelandic. A Not-So-Cold Case in Not-So-Frigid Iceland 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z It's a collection of complete choral works and fragments, most of which appear to have been composed by local musicians to texts written by the nuns. Baroque Music from Ecuador ? review 2011-08-18T21:10:01Z "Then they get shocked when we stop and tell them that not only are we girls, but we are also Buddhist nuns," she said. 'Kung Fu' nuns bike Himalayas to oppose human trafficking 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Sister Ingalls notes that she went from wearing a nun’s habit to a prison uniform. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: Taystee Gets Her Moment 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z This was followed by the nuns’ rooftop treats and a delightful Alentejo-inspired lunch. In Portugal, uncorking some unexpected culinary delights 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The nuns sing out with gusto, once Deloris revamps the choir with a disco-meets-Philly-soul repertoire instead of the Motown oldies in the film. Touring ‘Sister Act’ has more sass than soul 2013-08-21T21:55:05Z Two nuns offer prayers and sympathy outside an Illinois deportation center. ‘Band of Sisters’: Nuns’ story of change, activism 2013-04-11T20:39:06Z In this crackling World War I novel, a young medical student is dispatched to a desolate hamlet on the Eastern Front, where he teams with a rifle-wielding nun to treat soldiers. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Instead, she decided to give the nuns cameras to film themselves making and displaying their "little works" – small religious icons and crocheted baskets. Andrea B?ttner: the habit of art 2011-03-14T22:00:01Z The nuns, too shy to say much through our interpreter, had shaved heads and wore pink robes — and some carried cellphones. The best way to see thousands of temples in central Burma: Hot-air balloon 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z “In previews, we’ve been getting some funny little giggles when Mary says, ‘I wanted to be a nun,’” says Kaczmarek, who attended Catholic school as a child in Milwaukee. Jane Kaczmarek, 'Long Day's Journey' and the dark role that's a complete departure from 'Malcolm' 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Not because it is particularly accurate – its lead character is neither a warrior nor a nun – but because it is grabby enough to cut through the static of the Netflix menu screen. 'Kickass girls killing monsters': is Warrior Nun the next Stranger Things? 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z And one suggestion was showing "Nun's Life" magazine, but instead of the nun on a surfboard, like in the movie, instead, the nun is smoking a cigar and getting drunk. "When stupidity is elevated": "Airplane!" filmmakers reveal the secrets to their deadpan success 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z If I didn’t leave soon, I’d start telling inappropriate personal stories, such as the one about the nun in elementary school who told me I’d never amount to anything because I spoke so softly. Single, and Surrounded by a Wall of Men 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z It’s also his first show in this particular style to open to the press since 2010, when he starred as a guitar-strumming nun in “The Divine Sister.” Call Charles Busch a ‘Drag Legend,’ if We Must Use Labels 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The segment also details some notable foul-ups, like an investigation that resulted in a terrorist report on some nuns. Television Review: Safety First? All Signs Point to No 2011-01-17T22:31:47Z When “Matrix” opens, Marie, all of 17 years old, is appointed prioress of a dilapidated abbey, founded centuries earlier, where a few nuns remain scavenging for food. Review | In Lauren Groff’s hands, the tale of a medieval nunnery is must-read fiction 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z A student's decision to become a nun provokes spiritual and personal angst. Films out this week 2010-04-23T23:36:00Z They quickly and quietly married, a fact that she kept concealed from the nuns with whom she worked for some time. The autumnal apple stack cake is rich in flavor and Appalachian folklore 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z She’s not the kind of nun likely to break into songs about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, or greet her charge’s hostilities by waving a wimple as a white flag. | 'High': Assisting Recovery, Craving Redemption 2011-04-20T02:01:29Z Winemakers used egg whites to clarify wine and would give the excess egg yolks to nuns to make food for poor children. A French treat with a classified recipe 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z In the film, the nun traces her sole living relative: an aunt who was involved in Stalinist show trials. Playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz: 'I had evil thoughts as a child' 2013-01-20T19:59:01Z The courtyard was reserved for the Béguines, an order of Roman Catholic lay sisters, who were not nuns but vowed chastity. Essay: In Europe, Sharing Moments With History 2012-10-10T20:43:02Z It was also where she discovered that before a teacher named Sister Mercedes had entered the convent, the nun was known as Ivy May Bolton, one of Bertrice’s favorite childhood authors. Bertrice Small, 77, Writer of Risqué Romance Novels, Dies 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z “They don’t act like real nuns,” the girls whisper to one another. Review | In ‘The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls,’ a tidal wave strikes, and a small town must pick up the pieces 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z What poor excuse for a playwright would push a nun to cavort with a saloon girl? Making Shakespeare Their Own, Serious and Silly 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Most of us wouldn’t curse in front of a nun, for instance. David Thorpe asks provocative questions in ‘Do I Sound Gay?’ 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z And Ms. Kalman rhapsodizes about ironing — once on a visit to a castle run by Irish nuns, she volunteered to help with theirs. Mmuseumm 2 to Open in TriBeCa, All 20 Square Feet of It 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In worming his way into Adèle’s castle, Ory spends whole scenes disguised first as an old hermit and then a devout nun. The Week Ahead: Mar. 20 ? 26 2011-03-16T20:54:08Z Last time an evil dummy terrorized our heroes; this time, it’s a satanic nun. Neverending stories: Franchise thirst explains how sequels like “The Purge: Election Year” get made—but not why they’re in theaters 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z There’s a nunnery down the street, and sometimes nuns will come up and there are very friendly interactions. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Dancers clad in lingerie and nuns’ habits, using crucifixes to pole dance? On ‘Rebel Heart’ tour stop, Madonna doesn’t miss a beat 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z “I used the murdered nuns as an example of that evil,” his statement said. O’Reilly clarifies remarks about what he saw in Northern Ireland 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Your story in this week’s issue, “These Short, Dark Days,” involves a nun—a “nursing sister”—in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Clad in the drapes, we traipse so merrily; each day is fun, Under the lilting lead of — verily — a singing nun! Style Invitational Week 1078: Hyphen the Terrible — neologisms plus winning parodies But if there was anything I was certain of now, it was that I was not meant to be a nun. Modern Love: Signs, Wonders and Fates Fulfilled 2010-02-20T06:33:00Z In these stories, nuns are made objects of fantasy, lust and loathing. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z As a Sisters of Charity nun, she wears a bonnet with a wide brim, so even a side view reveals little. 1st Stage puts on taut drama ‘Doubt’ 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z One of those nuns, Sister Jacques-Marie, had, in an earlier life, been Matisse’s nurse, helping him convalesce from cancer surgery. Perspective | I’ve seen plenty of beautiful artworks. But the Matisse Chapel overwhelmed me. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z This most gothic of all gothic novels also features a vengeful mother superior and a ghostly bleeding nun. Paul Murray's top 10 wicked clerics 2010-03-17T15:38:00Z A biographical drama about Marie Heurtin, a young deaf and blind woman who became a dedicated nun in 19th century France. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z And will her tutelage of the singing nuns help save the church from being sold to a couple of bachelor antiques dealers? | 'Sister Act': Different Church, More Sequins 2011-04-21T02:30:24Z A stout, starchy nun looked on, tut-tutting us from a distance. Modern Love: Appreciating a Difficult Mother 2010-03-12T18:40:00Z The community of nuns maintains an intact estate of rolling fields, orchards and active pastures. Romanian rhapsody — exploring an unsung destination in Eastern Europe 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Grappling with the gap between faith and hopelessness, Sonya asks one of the institution’s nuns what prayer is. From Blood and Phlegm to Alcohol and Defenestration, Novels of Heartache 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z A few days later, the nun is found stabbed to death in the cellar of the convent. Stabbed in the Convent, Murdered in the Yard 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z “In ’77, my career was getting started, and Virgil put me in touch with rich women he knew who studied piano with nuns and so on … I would go to their houses. The Last Living Bohemian in Chelsea Tells All 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z While I embraced every aspect of being a nun when I joined the Sisters of Mercy, a Catholic convent in Providence, Rhode Island in 1965, aged 18, my life before might not have suggested it. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z “I used to walk around the house with a towel on my head pretending to be a nun,” says Hussey, now 67. Olivia Hussey, star of Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet: 'I was wild' 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z After being threatened with exile to a convent, the female protagonist voluntarily becomes a nun to escape her suitor. Music Review: Monteverdi’s ‘Ballo Delle Ingrate,’ With a Different Spin 2012-06-04T22:24:09Z “I was a nun for seven years,” she said, “so I come from a different kind of material perspective: Take what you need. Don’t overuse.” The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z In the summer of 1859, a desperate nun in the Roman convent of Sant’Ambrogio sent a letter to her kinsman, a bishop in the Vatican. Nuns gone bad: Why you should read this lurid tale of a lesbian nun sex gang 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z But grammar is much closer to a science than a set of commandments from a ruler-wielding nun. Q&A with Steven Pinker, author of ‘The Sense of Style’ I couldn’t believe my attention was held so raptly by the story of 12th-century nuns, but I loved their community, their personalities, their ambitions especially. Readers Share Their Favorite Books of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z “Imagining you on a horse is everything right now,” said Lily Collins, whose own Givenchy Haute Couture vibe was, as she put it, “chic nun.” The Scene Inside the Met Gala 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z What should the TSA spokesman not have said about busloads of nuns crossing the border? Style Invitational Week 1103: Themes good to us — pair a TV show and a song 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The letter was signed by a miscellaneous group of seventy-three people, including distant family members, writers, nuns, and lawyers. What Happened After Mexico’s Greatest Architect Was Turned Into a Diamond 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z It follows five nuns attempting to establish a school and hospital in an isolated town in the Himalayas — a mission that goes awry as they each succumb to the pressures of their environment. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Sam Now’ and ‘Jeopardy! Masters’ 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z More than 100 paintings are at LACMA, ranging from small oils on copper medallions worn as nuns’ habit décor to a monumental oval altarpiece 13 feet tall and 10 feet wide. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The nuns strive to be good, and to live up to the ecclesiastical demand that they absent themselves from history altogether. Bad Bishops, Bloodletting and a Plague of Caterpillars 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z They enlisted two young Roman Catholic nuns, Sister Marie Arné and Sister Mary Campion, to ask a single question at a variety of Windy City locales: “Are you happy?” ‘Inquiring Nuns’ Review: A Simple Question Yields Many Profound Answers 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z The house that we shoot in for Mrs. Pumphrey's, during the war that was turned into a school for evacuee kids and run by volunteers, a group of nuns. "All Creatures Great and Small" writer on bringing "bittersweet" comforts of WWII to the Dales 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z “Plucky counts the nuns,” Kennedy told reporters, “and then multiplies by 100.” Masters of their medium: JFK on TV, Trump on Twitter 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The nun drove Field to the Actors Studio. Sally Field’s relentless quest for respect: ‘The roles I cared about deeply I had to fight for’ 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z A woman dressed as a nun kisses a bullet alone in front of her mirror, then aims a gun at an unseen enemy. The strangest, sickest and scariest midnight movies ever 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z For most of “Star Wars,” Carrie Fisher wore a futuristic cross between a nun’s habit and academic garb. A Long Time Ago in Drawings Far Far Away … 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Speaking by phone from her Greenwich Village home recently, Ms. Martin talked about “stalking” Jay Gatsby, adding Prada dresses to 1920s scenes and Daisy’s “floating nun” hat. The Carpetbagger: Clothes and Character: ‘The Great Gatsby’ 2013-12-31T19:00:37Z With help from her spoiled husband, her kooky sister-in-law and a comically righteous nun, Paulette teaches young women the keys to being a good wife: obedience, discretion, economy, tolerance for mediocre sex. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Half a century after the Second Vatican Council convened, nuns feel free to discuss what’s changed — and what hasn’t. ‘Band of Sisters’: Nuns’ story of change, activism 2013-04-11T20:39:06Z “Life and death are not clean, separate functions,” an errant nun tells Cora as the story hurtles along to its creepy, oddly lovely climax. ‘Mr. Splitfoot’ review: A gothic tale in the woods of New York 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z To the horror of her parents, she became a nun and has lived for the past 40 years in Connecticut, returning to the UK about twice a year. Edvard Munch was my grandfather, says Surrey-born nun 2012-08-27T15:51:00Z “We’ve spent the last forty years trying to convince the world that he wasn’t murdered, and all because nobody wanted to admit his body was discovered by a nun.” The election intrigue of Robert Harris’s ‘Conclave’ 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z There’s only minutiae: The nuns make structural repairs; weather happens. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z An early turning point came in college when he crossed a picket line of nuns to see “The Last Temptation of Christ,” with its depiction of “a beautifully human Jesus,” he says. ‘The Reverend’ Review: A Beer With a Music Chaser 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z At 11, she went to boarding school in a neighboring county, where for her first production the nuns cast her as a 90-year-old man. A Mother-Daughter Brawl: In ‘Beauty Queen,’ Marie Mullen Now Knows Both Sides 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z The priests and nuns there told her “they would throw me out for wearing sandals and reading Freud,” Ms. Mayer told Artforum. Bernadette Mayer, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 77 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z I was sent to study at a convent of the nuns of the Sacred Heart. Graciela Iturbide talks about going viral, L.A. cholos and shooting Frida Kahlo's bathroom 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z “Oh, great,” she said, “I’m going to look like the flying nun.” For American Muslims, Choosing to Wear the Veil Poses Challenges 2010-06-11T23:37:00Z His film, Ida, tells the story of a novice nun who must confront a family secret, dating from the Nazi occupation, before taking her vows. Polish film Ida wins double awards 2013-10-21T08:21:25Z In the past, many rich Europeans sent a daughter or two to a convent to live with nuns, where they excelled at needlework and baking — skills still practiced today. Europe’s convents offer tranquillity — and treats 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z On Saturday a website set up to back the nuns’ legal battle carried a picture of Holzman with the caption, “Rest with the angels our most precious treasure.” Nun fighting sale of convent to Katy Perry dies in court 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z When The Sound of Music hit movie screens, the appeal of singing nuns and the lush Technicolor greenery of the Austrian hills made sense against the backdrop of the early 1960s. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z “Most people have no idea that there are Episcopal nuns,” she said. Living the #ConventLife 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Blanche de la Force, a nervous, fretful young aristocrat, seeks to join an order of Carmelite nuns to quiet her mind and find refuge amid the chaos of the French Revolution. Review: Poulenc’s Nuns, United by Faith, Return to the Met 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The chapel-like room is contemplative; the viewer reads what was expected of a nun in the fifties, what they took on, what they gave up, while guarded, while in religious costume. Suzanne Bocanegra’s Haunting, Beautiful Clutter 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z "The nuns would wave and jump as he drove by," he recalled. JFK: The First Pop President 2010-05-25T07:00:00Z “We try to live like nuns as much as possible and save our energy for the show.” Young Tony Nominee of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Gets Ready for His Big Day 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The opera, based on a play by Georges Bernanos about the guillotining of Carmelite nuns during the French Revolution, explores the notion of steadfast faith in a brutally secular world. Music Review: Juilliard Presents ?Dialogues des Carm?lites? 2010-04-22T21:17:00Z But the sale is opposed by the order of nuns who own the convent. Judge Says Katy Perry's Convent Sale Appears to Be Invalid 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z "The nuns taught me how to play the piano as a child," he said after giving a rendition of a Spanish waltz. Tips from Spain’s centenarians on how to live to 100 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Getting up to leave, he said, “I never really thought you should become a nun.” Modern Love: Signs, Wonders and Fates Fulfilled 2010-02-20T06:33:00Z You’ve had a very religious upbringing, and at one point wanted to be a nun… I love religion. Anne Hathaway on Les Miz, Singing Live and the Power of Hugh Jackman 2012-12-06T13:00:37Z The abbey's problems have caught the eye of inspectors, though they've worked closely with the nuns on the improvement plans and haven't ordered them to close the building. Nun famous for kissing Elvis prays for miracle 2011-12-24T04:08:04Z Then, little by little, the political volatility of the outside world encroaches on the nuns’ sealed serenity. Movie Review: In ‘Apparition,’ a Philippine Drama, Nuns Face Civil Strife 2013-07-09T18:21:34Z The nuns who taught me until I was 11 were very kind. Elvis Costello: ‘Believing you’re being watched is no longer fantasy’ 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z The nuns from the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation near Avignon had their prayers answered last week after beating 70 other religious orders from North America and Africa to the deal with Universal Music. French nuns in music deal get death threat-report 2010-07-29T17:40:00Z “Black Narcissus,” Powell’s exquisite 1947 drama about a group of nuns who open a convent in the Himalayas, will screen at 7:30 p.m. Martin Scorsese and Michael Powell films at SAM 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Nixon also appeared before the cameras in 1965, in a small role as a nun in "The Sound of Music," and provided the singing voice of Grandmother Fa in the 1998 animated film "Mulan.'" Marni Nixon, voice of classic movie songs, has died at 86 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z More, reported Mr. Williams, there is even a nun on the voting rolls! The Carpetbagger: NBC News and ABC's Awards Show 2012-02-22T01:19:56Z I like to think becoming a nun was in its own way quite counter- cultural. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z A 117-year-old French nun also recovered after testing positive for the virus in January. 105-year-old NJ woman beats COVID, attributes health to prayer and gin-soaked raisins 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z “The nuns would have me stand against the wall and beat my hands. It made me learn to stay home and study.” Two Octogenarians Commit to ‘Living Apart Together’ 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z They visit the grotto, the baths, the souvenir shops and various places of worship, all under the stern gaze of a middle-aged senior nun from a nursing order. Lourdes | Film review 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z Then came an article in March 2018 that denounced the servitude of nuns who work for a pittance to cook and clean for clerics. The Vatican editor who exposed the sexual abuse of nuns – and took on the Pope 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z When asked why he thought the calls were placed, Officer Duncan offered that the nuns’ seclusion may cause them to be “more jumpy” than others in Sunnydale. ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ Reimagined by Its Fans 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z This may or may not be true of nuns, but it can often feel glumly applicable to writers and filmmakers, especially those who try to chart an independent course. ‘White Noise’ Review: Toxic Events, Airborne and Domestic 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z My dad is an actor and an Episcopalian priest, so we talked more about nuns and religion in preparation for this part. "Mrs. Davis" star Betty Gilpin on her risk-taking acting style: "I like playing high stakes" 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z The story of a young Polish nun who learns how her family's real roots in Judaism were destroyed by the Holocaust seems to be the current front-runner to win the foreign-language Oscar. Oscar also speaks powerfully in foreign languages 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z In this story, I wanted the nun to defy just such a “rule.” This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z On a streetcar ride up Queen Mary Road, where the Shrine stood, a nun once told me that I had “the look of Abraham” on my face. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z We had approached the nun behind the candle counter and asked for the name of the church. Driving Russia’s Revived Golden Ring 2012-08-31T19:01:44Z Since some of the characters are nuns, we understand how that informs their characters and the reactions those characters have to some very grim, gritty situations. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Three nuns hard at work at their convent look up to discover that the sky is falling … ‘The Collision’ and ‘The Martyrdom’ Review: A Nun Ahead of Her Time 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z To honor the general and his men, local nuns from the convent of Santa Monica prepared a meal using fresh apples, pears, peaches, walnuts and pork. Sweet, Salty, Sour — and Part of Mexico’s Soul 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Guests sat immersed in a set of wall-to-wall school lockers as looks fused preppy styles of school boarders — with a take on a Catholic nun’s habit. Ecology, Ukraine and nuns inspire eclectic Paris fashion 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The setting is a monastery in the bare Romanian countryside, where Orthodox nuns live simple lives of worship and hard work under the direction of a priest and his wife. ‘Beyond the Hills’: Love, faith collide in Romanian monastery 2013-03-28T22:00:12Z The star of Cooked is Sister Noella, a Benedictine nun with a PhD in microbiology. Michael Pollan: ‘I’m uncomfortable with the foodie label’ 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z A nun calls herself just another “hippie girl,” while a member of a guerrilla theater group boasts, “We struggle in our own humble way to destroy the United States.” Did They Wear Flowers in Their Hair? See the Happy Hippies in 1967 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Anna is an attractive young woman training to be a nun at a Catholic convent. Oscars 2015: The foreign language contenders 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z That led her to a spiritual reassessment of her life, and by her early 20s, she was a nun. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Nun With a Musical Gift, Dies at 99 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z "They're done by the `crochet sisters' - an order of nuns in Kenya that we've been working with for four seasons," she explained. Tough and soft make for an intriguing mix at Edun 2012-09-09T00:16:04Z She went to Catholic schools and asked the Blessed Virgin Mary for a sign that she should become a nun. Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z There are just enough oblique references to sermons and persecutions and nuns and limbo and followers to spark a thousand theses. Books of The Times: J. M. Coetzee’s ‘Childhood of Jesus’ Dissects a World 2013-08-28T21:20:05Z As long as we remember that “Sister Act” is an act, not a true reflection of the real American nuns among us. ‘Sister Act’ brings its roof-raising soul to Seattle 2013-08-15T19:19:13Z She was an associate producer for “Radical Grace,” a film that followed nuns who challenge the Vatican, which debuted at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto in April 2015. Laura Wilson and Toby Fallsgraff: A Mission From the President 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Is the character of Sister Ingalls — the nun who is a protester — close to reality? Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z I was pleased to learn about the area’s rich Christian history and to see so many monks and nuns. What a Trip: Georgian wine and the spirit of love on a vacation to the Caucasus 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z After she entered Buddhism and became a nun in 1973, she established her base in the ancient capital of Kyoto and regularly gave religious talks there and around the country. Japan’s outspoken nun and author Jakucho Setouchi dies at 99 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z After a break, about 20 people involved in the show assembled on pillows for a tea ceremony presided over by Kwan, the Buddhist nun, in the cavernous, silent exhibition hall. How Do You Stage a Global Art Show Now? In South Korea, Curators Press On. 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z True, mother is a little remote, and preoccupied with her best-friendship with a Roman Catholic nun. | 'The Talls': A 17-Year-Old Beanstalk From a Wholesome ?70s Family Is Eager to Go Far Out 2011-08-16T21:14:24Z For proof, look no further than this closing scene, in which he kills a nun. Clip joint: Bad Santas 2012-12-19T11:28:06Z Mary Johnson is a former nun who joined Mother Teresa’s order, the Missionaries of Charity, at age 19. Was Mother Teresa a masochist? 2013-04-30T16:04:00Z In the last room of the exhibit is Bocanegra’s staging of “Dialogue of the Carmelites,” a nineteen-fifties opera based on the story of a French convent where the nuns are executed by anticlerical French revolutionaries. Suzanne Bocanegra’s Haunting, Beautiful Clutter 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Visitors hear, at various times, the chanting of Tibetan nuns, an aria, a lullaby and a Russian war anthem commissioned by Stalin. ‘The Murder of Crows’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-08-09T15:11:07Z The monks and nuns would use egg whites to starch their habits and they had to do something with the yolks, so they began selling the pastries. Flaky Custard Tarts With Holy Origins 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Medieval monks and nuns sang Latin prayers at rigorously scheduled times of day, varying the routines only slightly, according to the season. Antiques: ‘Art Interrupted’ Exhibition Ends Tour in Georgia 2014-01-23T22:58:12Z "Rob was no more of an 'agent' for her than she is a Roman Catholic nun," he said to the Associated Press. Lady Gaga countersues in royalties war 2010-03-22T09:44:00Z And a nun offers Queenie a plate “with one soft, amber peach.” ‘The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy,’ by Rachel Joyce 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Gawain takes the nutty nun to a ditch and knocks her block off as Merlin looks on and declares, "There is no god." Camelot: episode 10 2011-08-05T21:01:01Z “She said I shouldn’t be scared of something 'transcendental' like reading and writing,” Levy writes of one early teacher, a nun in the South African city of Durban. Deborah Levy on the writer's inner life 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z I’m always being edited by my inner nun. George Saunders's Humor 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z “Call the Midwife Holiday Special,” in which the nuns of Nonnatus House travel to South Africa to save a free clinic threatened with closure, leads in at 7:30. What’s on TV Sunday: Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Richard III’ and ‘Doctor Mysterio’ 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Schnitzel, beloved of gambolling nuns, is one of those dishes that's mysteriously more than the sum of its parts. How to make the perfect wiener schnitzel 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z But many nuns are highly educated, well-traveled and sophisticated, not naive and cloistered. ‘Sister Act’ brings its roof-raising soul to Seattle 2013-08-15T19:19:13Z While “Dialogues” presents a community of nuns, each character is depicted with touching particularity. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z Yet as Aids did its dreadful work – this was the 1990s – I watched nuns offer compassionate care to the dying. I was an astrologer – here's how it really works, and why I had to stop 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Before the overture, aerialists dressed in yet more nun habits twirl high above the audience, a reminder that this space spends much of its time as a circus school. Review: In ‘Le Comte Ory,’ a Salacious Rossini Comes Through 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z “Women become nuns because they have a vocation and want to help those who are suffering or fragile, not to serve priests.” The Vatican editor who exposed the sexual abuse of nuns – and took on the Pope 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z For decades, tribal members had suffered extreme poverty, seen their language banned by the Catholic priests and nuns who oversaw the reservations, and lost their kids to the child-welfare system. The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Twice a week, one of the nuns would “wheel in a cart with a record player and records that she got from the Longines Symphonette Society,” he says. Creating the opera ‘Blue,’ about police violence against young black men, was hard yet hopeful work 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z In a relationship that calls to mind “The Miracle Worker,” a nun took Marie under her wing in 19th-century France, despite considerable obstacles. Amid Challenges, Humanity Arises 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z She was shattering during the prioress’s death scene, when this lifelong nun flails about with fear and fury and cries out that God has abandoned her. Review: ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites,’ Under Will Crutchfield, Finds Beauty Anew 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z At the Corpus Christi Monastery, temporary vows can be extended by one-year increments if a nun needs additional time before making solemn vows, which are permanent. Secrets of the convent: Will millennials become nuns? 2013-12-15T19:00:00Z That said, her bravery in speaking out against the church’s abuse of nuns does have echoes of the #MeToo movement. The Vatican editor who exposed the sexual abuse of nuns – and took on the Pope 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z "There were threats written in English saying that these nuns had to be killed," the newspaper reported, citing a person close to the matter. French nuns in music deal get death threat-report 2010-07-29T17:40:00Z Her mother died when she was 10: she prayed to God that if he spared her, she would become a nun. My 700,000 children 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z The ensemble was fully prepared for the great final scene, as the nuns face the guillotine, and their chorus is inexorably reduced, one by one, during Poulenc’s granitic setting of the “Salve Regina” prayer. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ by Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble 2012-08-26T21:03:45Z A silk dress that closed the show sprouted little wings at the shoulders that suggested a flying nun. Fashion Review: Kenzo, Carven and Isabel Marant Present 2012 Fall Collections 2012-03-06T00:30:53Z When monks, friars and nuns established their enclaves, they turned to gardens of herbs, wildflowers and vegetables to feed and heal themselves. Reviving monastery’s city farm, started a century before urban agriculture was cool 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The difference now is that Fabritze doesn’t see another nun ready to step in. She’s traveled 16 years with the circus, but she is not a performer. She’s a nun. 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z And though nuns run the hospice, the prevailing deity is cinema: movies provide the characters with role models and fantasy lives. | 'Aashayein': Handsome Guy Is Dying, but He Can Afford Care 2010-08-29T23:11:00Z As she puts it, “The idea is to send me to the nuns if things get ugly.” ‘Grandma, Do You Think You Were Good in Bed?’ and Other Questions 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z For the first half of that concert, she “looked like a nun,” she said, in a long black dress. Yuja Wang, Pianist and Fashion Plate 2012-04-08T03:23:10Z The nuns of the Convento de la Purísima Concepción in Marchena, for example, are happy to let you use their community as a base for exploring — they say so on their Web site. Q&A: Monastery Hopping in Spain 2012-10-12T18:42:31Z Tavener’s later, better-known works flowed from his conversion to Orthodox Christianity and his collaboration with Mother Thekla, a Russian emigre and Orthodox nun to whom he turned for support after his mother died in 1985. John Tavener, Composer and Seeker, Dies at 69 2013-11-12T18:20:35Z A thief and a nun are on the lam from — well, that’s the puzzle, and it takes way too long for them to piece it together. Neil Simon still says laugh! in the play ‘Broadway Bound’ 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z As the nuns make their way to the scaffold, singing “Salve Regina,” their voices, approaching exultation, drop out one by one with each swipe of the guillotine. Review: Poulenc’s Nuns, United by Faith, Return to the Met 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Edgar opts to wear the old-school habit and veil, and in the South Bronx in the 1990s, a habited nun is an appropriate image, she thinks. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z I couldn’t ask the nun if this applied to parents who were addicts, because my mother told me I was not allowed to out what she was to anyone. My mother, the drug addict 2014-03-31T23:00:00Z This chance meeting led Büttner to create her 2007 piece, Little Works, a short film about life in the nun's west London Carmelite convent. Andrea B?ttner: the habit of art 2011-03-14T22:00:01Z Greedy girl, she gathered up whatever the nuns were throwing down, French, Latin, Greek. When it comes to table manners royalty should be your benchmark 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z And if the nuns didn't get us it would be those conspiratorial reds at the BBC, or the unreliable French. Listening to Britain, edited by Paul Addison and Jeremy?A Crang 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z But that’s the beauty of a project like this: The nuns are learning just as much about millennial women as the women are learning about them. ‘The Sisterhood’: R U there, God? It’s me, without makeup. In Act II the count tries another tack, breaching the room where Adèle is secluded with her loyal women by impersonating a nun. A Lively, Stylish Met Debut For Rossini?s Last Comic Opera 2011-03-25T14:01:52Z Despite the holy outrage in some quarters, two nuns were spotted on Tuesday lunchtime going inside the fast food joint. McDonald's opens near Vatican, upsetting some purists 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The bicycle trek, from Nepal into India, is nothing new for the Drukpa nuns. 'Kung Fu' nuns bike Himalayas to oppose human trafficking 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z "You entertain, you evangelize and at the same time, it's also a vocation campaign for young audiences who want to become priests or nuns some day," Alviz said. Pope Francis takes centers stage in new Filipino musical 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The nun encouraged her to keep the baby, since she was about to marry anyway; Cornelia couldn’t tell her the real problem, that the child’s father was black. 'The Knick' Recap: Dismay and Despair in Season 1 Finale 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Mary is resourceful, fearless and unapologetic, whether helping nuns build their mission, nursing the Mother Superior, opening her own restaurant, gambling, carrying a rifle, wearing pants or drinking in saloons. Comics That Dismantle the White Cowboy Myth 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z The watercolours she made of children and nuns, and of the relationships between them and the words of the service, are some of her most sensitive and private paintings. The 10 best watercolours 2011-04-09T23:05:56Z But some determined local residents — among them a devoted neighbor, an erudite nun and a real estate agent with a useful resemblance to Yeats — have worked hard to forestall the prophesy. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z And so we sit in on the combative sessions between the tough nun and the hardened young man, watching as they butt heads over his refusal to cooperate. | 'High': Kathleen Turner in Matthew Lombardo Play in Hartford 2010-08-09T21:57:00Z I even contacted an Iraqi nun living in Rome. Venice Biennale: Iraq's art world emerges from the ruins 2013-05-29T10:00:17Z He credits the nuns at the Catholic school he attended in Michigan for his aversion to what he calls “lickspittles.” Sucking up has always been part of Washington culture. In the Trump era, it’s a sport. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z She is not a veiled and wimpled mother superior type, like the Sister Aloysius character in “Doubt,” but a brassy, foul-mouthed, ex-alcoholic nun who works as an addiction counselor, bullying her patients into sobriety. Need a Broad? Call Turner 2011-04-03T02:14:35Z In “The Ninth Hour,” Alice McDermott has taken the risk of writing about nuns, and the risk has been more than worth it. In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Frank Whipple, whose whimsical paintings of nuns wearing the winglike headdresses of the Daughters of Charity found favor with a host of Hollywood celebrities, died on June 8 in Los Angeles. Frank Whipple, Whose Nun Paintings Drew Hollywood Fans, Dies at 93 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z There are richer ways to imagine one’s mortal, fleshly being, the nuns of Oby teach, and other strategies than denial for contemplating its inevitable end. Bad Bishops, Bloodletting and a Plague of Caterpillars 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z So far we’ve seen a sexual harasser eviscerated on the train, spontaneous combustion, a series of murders in preparation for a demon-summoning ritual, and an old gang of exorcising nuns. 'The power of Christ compels you': a pop culture guide to the perfect exorcism 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z SAT-SUN Karaoke version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, wearing lederhosen, nun costumes or a few of your favorite things encouraged, 2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-03-20T21:57:25Z The nuns have no financial help from the Diocese of Birmingham. Nuns who inspired Call the Midwife forced to sell their home 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The film’s energy is most colorful in its corners, where minor characters dance in blue mohawks and romp around make-out parties dressed like mermaids and nuns. ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ Review: The Epistolary Novel as Instagram Feed 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The scene in which the nuns re-enact the rout of Cyrano's company is played with a simple piety that becomes incredibly moving. Cyrano de Bergerac – review 2013-07-23T17:11:00Z In those days, Montmartre was blanketed with grape vines, reverentially tended by the monks and nuns of a large abbey. The back streets of Bohemian Montmartre 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Stripped of their habits and dressed in plain clothes, the nuns, having received their death sentence in a prison cell, circle around Goerke’s Lidoine for a laying of hands. Review: Poulenc’s Nuns, United by Faith, Return to the Met 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Also in attendance were the cast of Sister Act dressed as nuns, doing the can-can. Dancing with the Stars Week 6: Maks Loses His Cool 2011-10-25T13:25:49Z The historically self-supporting nuns have started a fundraiser for the $4 million renovation project dubbed "New Horizons." Nun famous for kissing Elvis prays for miracle 2011-12-24T04:08:04Z It is a layer cake so rich that the self-abnegating Albanian-born nun, whose work with India’s dying poor led to a Nobel Prize during her lifetime and canonization after, would surely never touch it. Review: Mother Teresa Sings, in Drag and With Doubts 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The fake handmaids in white bonnets were not to be confused with the real nuns in white habits. Summer’s over, and things are back to bonkers. Here’s the view from Crazytown, D.C. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Despite having no ties to the Catholic Church, she dubbed the group the Sisters of the Valley and fashioned herself as an "anarchist, activist nun." Higher education: Here are 5 of the best documentaries about weed out now 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The ventriloquist and the nun sip coffee as they discuss the purpose of the congregation’s prayer at Mass. She’s traveled 16 years with the circus, but she is not a performer. She’s a nun. 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Indeed, “The Sisterhood” is most fascinating when it delves briefly into the past lives of the habit-wearing nuns who are eager to share the joy and satisfaction they’ve found in their vows and communities. ‘The Sisterhood’: R U there, God? It’s me, without makeup. My mother was taught by strict Catholic nuns at an all-girls high school, which undoubtedly influenced her own parenting style. The Chinese home I never knew 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z In Quebec City, the 17th-century monastery Le Monastère des Augustines provides rooms in the original cloister, breakfast served in silence, workshops in painting and opportunities to hear the nuns singing vespers. Your Next Trip Might Change Your Life 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The conservatives are backing the patriarch of Venice, whose laundry-list of throwback reforms starts with re-prescribing the Latin Mass. A dozen or so other cardinals, along with a few nuns, play leading roles. The election intrigue of Robert Harris’s ‘Conclave’ 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Morgan comes into court dragging Arthur's sword behind in a way that really sets your teeth on edge and the crazy nun pretends to have the brilliant idea of electing Morgan as Camelot's new queen. Camelot: episode 10 2011-08-05T21:01:01Z There’s a lot of silence involved in being a nun and, of course, there are the vows: poverty, obedience and celibacy. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z In Rome, as the bleeding worsened, she was sent to Sister Rose, a real-life nursing nun, to research her part. She confided in the nun, who, without judgment, sent her to the hospital. In the 1950s, Patricia Bosworth acted with the best, married the worst, and lost those she loved 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z But not during today’s thoroughly enjoyable show, in which each look was revealed as the model altar boys removed the nuns’ habits one by one. On the Runway: Thom Browne's Convent 2011-02-14T23:45:56Z Mother gets his kicks running nuns off the road. How to Think About Bill Cosby and ‘The Cosby Show’ 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z And the nuns throw themselves about as a unit, whether in prayer or possession, in serene harmony or atonal cries. Review: ‘The Devils of Loudun’ Offers No Escape From Horror 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z He apparently found his vocation after an epiphanic encounter with an angel at the factory where he worked but shares little of his inner life with the nuns who both fear and worship him. Beyond the Hills – review 2013-03-17T00:05:37Z Eugène Green's stylised work features a French actress, in Lisbon to shoot a movie, who becomes intrigued by a kneeling nun. Nine of the best films for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:11Z The neighbors with boats, the nuns with chain saws, the complete strangers who stepped up to help rebuild. Stephen Colbert’s Full Monologue, Transcribed 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The current president, Marie Taylor, is a former nun who spent 35 years in a convent. Quilts With a Sense of Place, Stitched in Oakland 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z About the only thing “Desperate Measures” hangs onto is the premise behind a nun’s being asked to bed a tyrant in order to free her brother. Making Shakespeare Their Own, Serious and Silly 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z “We’ve got more dough than Rockefeller,” one of the nuns quipped. Walter Nicholls, Washington Post Food section reporter, dies at 64 It also describes how Catholic nuns risked their lives hiding Jewish children at a Warsaw orphanage. Poland bids to reclaim forgotten past as haven for Jews 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Keegan explores that dark thread in an oblique way, through the eyes of a merchant, who has daughters at home and is shaken when he discovers that nuns are abusing girls in their care. Claire Keegan Harnesses the Power in Brevity 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z He is given a cross by a nun with a face as “grooved as a peach pit.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Other nuns teach the girls biology, physics and mathematics, along with weaving, painting, poetry and theater, and eventually child care and midwifery. Review | In ‘The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls,’ a tidal wave strikes, and a small town must pick up the pieces 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z From wearing see-through nun habits to suggestively swallowing a rosary, the pop star, who was raised a Catholic, has consistently prodded her faith’s strict sexual conventions. Noticed: For Catholics, Open Attitudes on Gay Issues 2011-04-22T19:37:06Z After it was published, she heard from nuns who were relieved to see the Church acknowledge that women’s subservience was a violation of divine prescription. Lucetta Scaraffia Is Trying to Fight Catholic Patriarchy from the Inside 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z As a teenager, he worked in the Spalding library, cleaning the building and charming the nuns. Muhammad Ali, my father and me 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Brave French nuns, protected by faith, walk through live fire; a clergyman loses his communion cups and linens in a stream, fishes them out, and goes to work. A Forgotten D Day Film 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z When I am assigned a cell in Medical, my first step to permanent housing, I make a fast walk of it for the bottom bunk, heeding the nun’s advice. “My synagogue was a jail cell”: My miracle happened behind bars 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z They have riffed on nuns’ habits and the cloaks of friars, the red vestments of cardinals and the simple cassocks of priests. Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z In this season, the nuns and midwives of Nonnatus House will deal with leprosy, stroke, more complicated pregnancies and other ailments afflicting the people of Poplar. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Purge’ and ‘Call the Midwife’ 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z She is a sort of wimple-free nun, the Smile Mart her convent. ‘Convenience Store Woman’ Casts a Fluorescent Spell 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The nuns said statistics showed that sexual exploitation rose 30 percent in connection with the World Cup in Germany in 2006 and 40 percent at the World Cup in South Africa in 2010. Nuns, backed by pope, warn of human trafficking at World Cup 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z As she moves from the spiritual alliances of early nuns to the vigorous and lively friendships of modern women, the academic dryness of her prose becomes more noticeable. 'The Social Sex' is an entertaining but uneven history of female friendships 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z In a different version, the actor playing villain Angelo says his lines in a rap style and grabs a "victim" from the audience to be dressed up as a nun. Fair and foul: Shakespeare in many guises at Edinburgh Festival 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z At the hearing in a grand committee room, opponents of the sisters’ plan stepped up to a dais while three nuns, wearing habits and seated in the second row, looked on. Soup kitchen run by nuns and funded by self-help guru approved in California 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z She asks the younger nun, who cannot bring herself to believe anything so horrific, to keep her eyes open. 1st Stage puts on taut drama ‘Doubt’ 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The nun carves toys out of ivory soap to entertain little Sally, but these are a worry for her mother: When the child rubs her eyes with fingers coated with soap, wild tears ensue. In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Her adventures reached the small-screen in the CBS program "Death Valley Days," in which she was portrayed saving a man from a lynch mob in an episode called "The fastest nun in the West." Sainthood possible for New Mexico nun who faced down Billy the Kid 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z “When it comes to spending a lifetime in the ballet, it’s like being a priest or a nun,” he said. ?A Very Young Dancer? and the Life That Followed 2011-11-17T12:00:00Z Drugs are prescribed, but mostly the nuns are urged to give her rest, rest and peace. Beyond the Hills: A Neorealist Exorcist 2013-03-08T13:00:06Z But the nun’s words also spoke to a basic skill that many of us in Cannes were having to suddenly relearn: that of being outside, in a body, in the world among all its perils. Falling Back in Love With Cannes 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z A group of crows is a murder; pandas, an embarrassment; nuns, a superfluity — a term that dates to the Middle Ages, when nunneries were overcrowded, lice-ridden and destitute. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z The “Lonesome West” story kicks off just after the funeral of Coleman and Valene’s father, who in life was frequently arrested for screaming at nuns. ‘The Lonesome West’: Irish brothers seeing red turn the comedy deliciously black 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z When a band of soldiers returns to the convent while she is there, her quick thinking saves the nuns from another harrowing round of assaults. Review: In ‘The Innocents,’ Not Even Nuns Are Spared War Horrors 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The Abbey of Regina Laudis has retained a steady number of nuns and new postulants, including two starting in the next few weeks, but that can't continue if the housing and other facilities keep eroding. Nun famous for kissing Elvis prays for miracle 2011-12-24T04:08:04Z So in place of “pregnant,” the nun who is helping Margaret start her women’s clinic suggests “gravid.” Boardwalk Empire Watch: A New Jimmy? 2012-10-08T12:00:35Z Carmelite nuns were asked to remember their most mystical Christian experience while undergoing functional scans. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z The obstetrician, he claimed, had informed him in front of appalled nurses and nuns that Lenore had had to have a Caesarean because she had herpes. Perspective | Pat Conroy said he was ‘the most falsely open man’ I’d ever met. He was right. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z As I stand in Medical Module, waiting to process to my first locked cell, I remember one piece of advice a nun gave me before my jail sentence began. “My synagogue was a jail cell”: My miracle happened behind bars 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z “One day I just said, ‘I don’t know about being a nun. Olivia Hussey, star of Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet: 'I was wild' 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The orphanage plot — tough nuns, smart-aleck kids, accidental fire — quickly merges with an equally clichéd boxing plot involving a crusty trainer, his con artist son and gambling debts. | 'Knucklehead': He?s a Big Man on a Mission 2010-10-21T22:59:00Z Gallorini and a staff of three women, including one nun, work in a small, cramped room where cardboard boxes labeled by language are strewn on the floor and on desks. You've got mail, Pope Francis 2014-01-31T11:57:43Z If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, send a message to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk Films portrayals of nuns usually play on stereotypical perceptions of the holy sisterhood. Clip joint: nuns 2012-11-14T15:27:04Z They saw “The Odd Couple,” “Romeo & Juliet,” “The Love Bug,” and they also watched Rosalind Russell play a nun who comes face to face with the counterculture in “Where Angels Go … Trouble Follows.” Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Even Bonnie Aarons – the actress who plays "the nun" in the film – responded to the tweet, wishing the little girl a happy birthday. 3-year-old goes viral for terrifying 'The Nun'-themed birthday party 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z And clearly there’s something about nuns that brings on the giggles for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. ‘Sister Act’ brings its roof-raising soul to Seattle 2013-08-15T19:19:13Z Many of the women I started with decided life as a nun just wasn’t for them – they moved away, got married. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z However, Federico finds himself falling for the nun as well, and as she inconveniently survives one test of witchhood after another — drowning, branding — his loyalties are severely tested. At Film Comment Selects, Period Pieces Lead the Way 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Philippe de Novare, in the early 13th century, on why girls shouldn't learn to read or write unless they are going to be nuns, "since they might write or receive amorous missives". The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack – review 2012-07-05T07:00:01Z His only reference point for female religious leaders were nuns. The Bride and Groom Met at a Wedding 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z When one of the young nuns wakes him in the night looking to be initiated into sex, Don Juan rebuffs her: “I feel nothing,” he says, unnerved at his inability to respond. Theater Review: ‘Don Juan Comes Home From Iraq’ by Paula Vogel 2014-03-28T22:10:08Z Kent was an activist, artist and Catholic nun who shaped a generation of young artists as a professor at the now-closed Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. Object Lesson: Wild Corita Kent biblical print has Eames chairs, no 'shampoo-ad Jesus' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The quirky alternative: “Fraulein Maria’s Sound of Music Bicycle Tour,” run not by a singing nun but usually by a burly young man named Rupert. Quirky European sights, from Lennon ‘love wall’ to salt mines 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The nuns will be raising awareness of the dangers of human trafficking and other crimes connected to the World Cup through their blog gritopelavida.blogspot.com.br/, their Facebook page here and other social media. Nuns, backed by pope, warn of human trafficking at World Cup 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z The nun’s body was found on a rubbish dump two months later. Who murdered Sister Cathy? Netflix takes true crime to the next level 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Cavalier, who won the Critic’s Prize in 1986 with his luminous “Thérèse,” about a young nun, is a pioneer, a New Wave breakaway who created his own system. Movies: Cannes Festival Rolls Out a Very Red Carpet 2011-05-10T12:00:06Z It’s about nuns in 18th-century France, finding their faith and their lives threatened by the revolution outside their walls. Creating the opera ‘Blue,’ about police violence against young black men, was hard yet hopeful work 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Beyond the track, one friend praising the nun’s inner fire as awe-inspiring. Chicago nun runs marathon on treadmill, raises $108K for charity 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Her character’s transformation into her life as a nun is the focus of the story, which was adapted from a novel by Kathryn Hulme. What’s on TV Sunday: A Tribute to Elvis and ‘Last Week Tonight’ 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z Last week, Nia Jones selected clips on the subject of nuns. Clip joint: dead or alive? 2012-11-21T16:38:02Z That said, you have to love seeing nuns shouting basketball strategy from courtside. | 'The Mighty Macs': Carla Gugino and Ellen Burstyn in ?The Mighty Macs? ? Review 2011-10-21T02:09:35Z And he does indeed find trouble, first in the form of the nuns outside in support of Sister Ingalls. 'Orange Is the New Black' Finale: It's Almost Like 'Thelma and Louise' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z There was no time to change, so we literally sprinted to the White House in full nun costume. Perspective | She dreamed a seal was the leader of the free world. What could that mean? 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The child, who later became famous as Mabel Mercer, was raised by her grandmother at first, while her teenage mother toured, then by convent nuns. Review: ‘Mabel Madness,’ a Singer’s 20th-Century Journey 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z While Charles at first sympathizes with the nuns, particularly the girlish Sister Alice, he begins to doubt their story. Review: In Ken Urban’s ‘Sense of an Ending,’ Lives Are Caught Between Truth and Tale 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Soon after the incident, one of Reagan’s top foreign-policy advisors, Jeane Kirkpatrick, told a reporter for The Tampa Tribune, “The nuns were not just nuns. The nuns were also political activists.” The diplomat and the killer: Death squads, dirty war and the untold story of H. Carl Gettinger 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Bran’s mom, in classic West Coast boomer fashion, runs off to become a Buddhist nun. In Nell Zink’s ‘Avalon,’ a Young Woman Is Too Busy for Revenge 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z The Catholic Church may consider for sainthood a nun who helped set up schools and hospitals across the American southwest in the 1800s and faced down the region's notorious outlaws, including Billy the Kid. Sainthood possible for New Mexico nun who faced down Billy the Kid 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z She went to Thailand for three months to meditate with Buddhist nuns, sometimes for 36 hours at a time without sleeping or eating. Music: Beth Orton Releases ‘Sugaring Season’ 2012-09-29T23:43:03Z At first, Mathilde is a little irritated by the Benedictine nun in her old-school habit — a creature of the old Europe, in Mathilde’s eyes — and her mysterious tale of a sister in dire peril. “The Innocents”: A powerful fable of rape and rebirth in a Polish convent 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “Ida” is set in the early 1960s, as a young woman about to become a Catholic nun is sent to meet her only relative before taking her vows. Oscars 2015: 'Ida' wins for foreign-language film 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z It imagined the class of ’65 in 10 years, and depicted Hillary as a nun named “Sister Frigidaire.” Always running, always prepared: Hillary Clinton as a high school politician 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Catholic priests and nuns were ubiquitous public servants, tending to the French population, largely subsidized by provincial taxes and dominating Quebec’s French universities, hospitals, and social agencies, as well as the public schools. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Then the nuns got wind and called the police. Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot 2011-01-19T21:31:00Z Priests are generally well-meaning but incompetent in this genre, but nuns are to be avoided. Joe Queenan's guide to horror film cliches 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z At the convent across the street he launches into an impromptu duet with a nun, who like his father, who died in 1988, is from the Apulia region of southeastern Italy. With Turturro, Italy Knows No Bounds 2010-03-03T00:09:00Z The expected eccentric nun recollections are never merely amusing character sketches. Review: Reliving a Childhood Interrupted in ‘The Tricky Part’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z By middle age, she is competing with other nuns for arrests. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: 'Go Ahead, Girls, Take a Break From Your Values' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z After his parents are brutally murdered on the night, Billy suffers more abuse from nuns in an orphanage, psychological damage which will cause Christmas to be a trigger for him. A ranking of bad Santas, from naughty to vice 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z We received a great education from the nuns. George Saunders's Humor 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z She told the nuns she would come back as soon as she had the means to provide for him. Britain’s child migrants: ‘I was told I was going on a picnic’ 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Former nun Mary Johnson is the daughter of one such 1960s mother: Zika & family planning: Will Latin American Catholics really have to choose between the well-being of their children and the well-being of their souls? 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z It may be that some nuns have gotten pregnant. Gloria Steinem meets Gloria Allred: ‘Donald Trump has made us woke’ 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z A much-loved nun has died and her former students have gathered to mourn her. 9 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Previously, Büttner has spent time observing Carmelite nuns in London, giving them a camera so they could film themselves making crochet baskets and little religious figures. Andrea B?ttner wins the Max Mara prize for women artists 2010-03-23T22:05:00Z A colorful cast of Lego characters populates the square, including a nun with a selfie stick and a bespectacled figurine of Simon. A Lego version of the pope’s home is on exhibit at a Philadelphia museum 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z He had been raised in a family with several priests and nuns and a fondness for Merton’s work. The Mystic, the Monk and the Play Brought to You by Powerball 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z A pale white nun emerged from a modest building. High in the Mountains and Monasteries of Georgia 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Barbe also designed the beautifully colorful, campy costumes worn by the debauched Alexandrians, a vivid contrast with the austere robes of the nuns and monks. Music Review: George Manahan Conducts ‘Thaïs’ at Manhattan School of Music 2012-12-10T22:50:19Z She uploaded her first TikTok video Joined on June 10, 2021, and describes what it’s like to be an Episcopal nun. Nun's skincare routine goes viral on TikTok and it only has 3 steps 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Decades later, when they were all in their seventies, my grandmother confessed her secret to one of the nuns, whose mouth stretched into a wry smile. The autumnal apple stack cake is rich in flavor and Appalachian folklore 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z In what has become her third and, she hopes, final home with her second religious family, Sister Maria Benedicta feels affinity for the older nuns in her community. Secrets of the convent: Will millennials become nuns? 2013-12-15T19:00:00Z Lady Gaga, she of the nuns' habits, human hair suits and meat dress, chose a silver gown by Brandon Maxwell that was as old school as her album of standards with Tony Bennett. Grammys fashion: Even Katy Perry, Beyonce and Rihanna play it safe 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Her ministry departed only after training local nuns to run the Catholic schools where Fabritze once taught. She’s traveled 16 years with the circus, but she is not a performer. She’s a nun. 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Janet Weber went to the Royal Ballet school and studied theatre before becoming a nun. Edvard Munch was my grandfather, says Surrey-born nun 2012-08-27T15:51:00Z The film is about a Catholic nun in the 1960s who discovers she’s Jewish and takes the painful journey to retrace her family’s lineage. Oscars 2015: Foreign language film nominees led by 'Ida,' 'Leviathan' 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Some of the only times women without offspring have garnered respect might be when they have formally devoted their lives to a god, and to celibacy: nuns, vestal virgins. More women like me are choosing to be childfree. Is this the age of opting out? 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z He buttonholes Bennedith and tells her a story about the time he was wronged by an evil nun with a maimed hand. In ‘Carnality,’ a Wild Ride Fueled by Rash Decisions 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The musical "Sister Act," which prominently features singing nuns and a salvation storyline, is due to close in August. ArtsBeat: 'Scandalous,' Musical About Aimee Semple McPherson, Sets Broadway Opening 2012-07-19T16:29:39Z Then I'd walk back to where we were living – a rectory haunted by nuns, allegedly – and put my chilled feet up on the fender, thus developing chilblains. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z He asks if there are people with a similar background in the audience, and proceeds with anecdotes — about schoolteacher nuns and priests, both censorious and inspirational — he presumes will be familiar to them. Review: Reliving a Childhood Interrupted in ‘The Tricky Part’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Practicing what he preached, Luther married a former nun with whom he had several children. How well do we know our heroes? A new book shows the darker side of Martin Luther 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z As I’ve written before, the nuns’ employees are going to be deprived of comprehensive healthcare regardless of the outcome of the appeal. Supreme Court grants Little Sisters temporary exemption from contraception mandate 2014-01-24T22:06:00Z She’s estranged from her dying father, and admits she became a nun halfway to spite her mother, a semifamous feminist whom she couldn’t forgive for staying with her father. ‘Grand Concourse,’ by Heidi Schreck at Playwrights Horizons 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z After a chilly welcome from the housekeeper and Angelica’s sister, a nun, the photographer sets to work and is jolted by what seems to be a hallucination. Movie Review: In Remote Corner of Portugal, a Photographer Finds More Than He Expects 2010-12-28T23:04:34Z They ask if I like women, or if I’m a nun. I Quit Dating Entirely 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Their conversations are subtitled while those of their white captors, mainly abusing nuns, sound like alien gobbledygook. From "Suspiria" to Final Girls, "Reservation Dogs" director on putting a '70s spin on Native horror 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z He is now more like the nun with a racy past who lectures the rest of the convent about the meaning of sex: not much fun for anyone. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z During the melee, a falling gargoyle clocks a nun, killing her. Fictional Glimpses of the Past: From the Tudors to the Czars 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Visitors stepping into the lobby find a one-way mirror and a spinning cupboard that hides the nuns from view. Europe’s convents offer tranquillity — and treats 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Chef and Buddhist nun Hue Phan reportedly prays and meditates in the kitchen at Blossom Vegetarian Restaurant in hopes of imbuing each dish with positive energy that will pass on to happy diners. Blossom Vegetarian dishes come with meaty flavor 2012-06-28T20:16:04Z What's not yet clear is how her prize, a recording contract with Universal, might conflict with the modest lifestyle of a nun. Singing nun Sister Cristina Scuccia wins Italian 'Voice' 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z She appears alongside an egotistical activist nun, a trans woman feeling her family on the outside slip away from her, an inmate happily carrying a guard’s baby. SAG Awards: “Orange Is the New Black” cast award is a big win for women 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z In the video “Ciao Bella,” which she produced in 2001, Ms. Rose portrays various feminine roles, including a nun, a mermaid and Marie Antoinette, playing out an intense, intriguing narrative. Tracey Rose, Artist and Provocateur, Gets a Major U.S. Retrospective 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The nuns of fiction can teach us to do away with reconciliation. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z I began cooking ever more, working with the nuns in the school kitchen during recess, because food and its aromas brought me right back to the memories of that secure place with grandma. The legendary Lidia Bastianich on the deep importance and myriad contributions of immigrants 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z A Conflicted Novice in the Shadow of the Guillotine Poulenc’s solemn, shattering 1957 “Dialogues des Carmélites” is about a novice in an order of Carmelite nuns doomed by the anticlerical extremism of the French Revolution. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ by Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble 2012-08-26T21:03:45Z Whether staying overnight, enjoying a quiet convent garden or indulging in a taste of pastry or confections from smiling nuns, a European convent may inject a peaceful energy into your travels. Europe’s convents offer tranquillity — and treats 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z They gently rebel against their school’s disciplinarian nuns, like Sister Michael, and their devoutly Catholic parents who are waiting for them at home. Watching "Derry Girls" in a violent America 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z She had been in a religious order of nuns, but had left three years prior to our meeting. I Quit the Priesthood 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z So I thought about Santa Teresa” — the 16th-century Spanish Carmelite nun — “and her memoirs. And he said, ‘Yes! An Insider’s Account of Manolo Blahnik 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z "Was it the crazed nun who reached through the portrait of Saint Barnabas to strangle Sheridan Smith?" Game of Thrones; Jonathan Creek – TV review 2013-04-02T06:00:03Z Although Yama recalls having once considered becoming a Buddhist nun and is shown chanting prayers, “Summer Pasture” also sidesteps religion. | 'Summer Pasture': A Life Herding Yaks, Modernity on the Horizon 2011-08-14T23:21:49Z She was arguably just as good, or deliciously bad, in Season 2, subtitled “Asylum,” when she played Sister Jude, an imperious Boston Irish nun in charge of a Massachusetts mental hospital in 1964. It’s Jessica Lange’s Show on ‘American Horror Story’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Like other Sicilian pastries, cannoli were at one time made and sold by convent nuns as a way of supporting their religious life, though the pastries are now an Italian bakery staple. Nobody doesn’t like cannoli — unless they’ve had a soggy one 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z McDermott’s nuns insist on showing up for those who suffer, and insistence might be the unspoken fourth vow of sisterhood, after poverty, chastity and obedience. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z In the late 19th century, European settlers brought sheep, knitting needles, early Fair Isle patterns and nuns who taught knitting. Sweater weather transports this writer to places like Scotland, Ireland and Norway 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z I love the iconography of the nuns, it's very striking. Ben Affleck: 'It's in the hands of the movie gods' 2010-09-23T21:00:00Z That slapstick is hardly stinted: The production, running through Saturday at the packed-to-the-gills Muse warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn, makes much hilarity, for one thing, of men scrambling for pink nun habits. Review: In ‘Le Comte Ory,’ a Salacious Rossini Comes Through 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z The list of designers who have considered the nun’s habit is long. Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z He recalled his chaotic childhood as the son of alcoholic parents, and the beatings he received at school from priests and nuns. Joker in the pack 2010-06-21T13:52:00Z Do you think she is typical of nuns of that era? This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Back in my drinking days, I used to be a little more promiscuous, but now in sobriety, I’m like a nun.” At Home With Moby: A Castle for the King of Techno 2011-04-28T03:00:42Z Formalist drama with spiritual overtones, in which an actor's fascination with a Lisbon nun fuses with her portrayal of one. This week's new films 2011-01-22T00:06:21Z So while there is an overarching narrative, that of the commission and creation of the tapestry, work is paused while each nun tells a story related to her work. tapestry by Philip Terry – review 2013-05-28T10:36:05Z When the family returned to Calcutta, she was enrolled in Loreto House, an elite Roman Catholic school run by an order of Irish nuns. Bharati Mukherjee, Writer of Immigrant Life, Dies at 76 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z “Everybody’s talking about it,” she said, mentioning her Upper West Side neighbors and a friend who is a Catholic nun as well. Netflix’s ‘Shtisel’ Is Binge-Worthy TV on a Strict Form of Judaism 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z It is ironic that I found holiness inside Lynwood, where a nun, who also told me “never make friends with those people” would have me believe I’d find depravity. “My synagogue was a jail cell”: My miracle happened behind bars 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Known locally as the home babies, the children lived in secrecy behind the dark, high walls of the home run by nuns from the Bon Secours order. Amateur historian 'blew open locked doors' by exposing Irish babies' mass grave 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “What is God if not the possibility of loving other people?” his sister, a former nun, asks him, but Rios’s take on things is earthier. A Gay Mystery Novelist Who Chronicles the Aftermath of AIDS 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z He was educated by nuns and considers himself as social justice Catholic; his three children attended Catholic schools. Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Jacob has barely begun a clandestine courtship when Orito's father dies and she is whisked off to a shady monastery where monks have formulated a bizarre ritual that turns nuns into sex slaves. 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet': David Mitchell's Japan-set historical novel 2010-07-16T22:43:00Z And by no means were all illuminators monks, nuns and clerics, nor did they all work anonymously. Fitzwilliam Museum Celebrates the Birth and Glory of Color Manuscripts 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “Take the bottom bunk if you can,” the nun said. “My synagogue was a jail cell”: My miracle happened behind bars 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z This New Age tinge extended to the music, a characteristically wide-ranging, flamboyantly reflective mixture that included the music of the medieval nun Hildegard von Bingen, Janis Joplin and a world premiere. Maya Beiser and Bang on a Can at the Jewish Museum 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Maybe this is God’s way of telling you that you should be a nun, after all.” Modern Love: Signs, Wonders and Fates Fulfilled 2010-02-20T06:33:00Z |
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