Pope Francis has reaffirmed the reprimand of American nuns issued by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, and endorsed the plan to have three bishops supervise an overhaul of the nation's largest umbrella group of American nuns.
Nuns lamented the passing of "nun". The issue wasn't just the removal of words reflecting a bygone pastoral Christian monarchy ("monarch_": gone).
But this summer, one Indian nun forced the issue into the open.
He helped a Roman Catholic nun resolve tax issues.
Novitiate (Dir: Maggie Betts) A young trainee nun struggles with issues of sexuality, faith and the changing church.
And as he slept, with an attendant nun alert beside him, issues were resolved: where everyone would sit, or stand; which of his many, varied thrones the pope would sit on; and whether Monika Henschel, the quartet's violist, would or would not play in a mantilla.
As the first full-length biographical study of a premodern Japanese nun, this book incorporates issues of gender and social status into its discussion of Bunchi's ascetic practice and religious reforms to rewrite the history of Buddhist reform and Tokugawa religion.
The verdict on the nuns group was issued by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is now led by an American, Cardinal William Levada, formerly the archbishop of San Francisco.
Even though The Opposite of Hallelujah is more explicitly about religion and science working together to help us understand the world there are characters who are actually priests and nuns and the issues are tackled head on—I would say that Tandem and the other books in the Many-Worlds Trilogy are struggling with those issues just as much, if not more, as Hallelujah.
He senses he's being followed; he's receiving peculiar unsigned letters, to which he is expected to respond; and from time to time a nun, Sister Clotilde, pops up to issue a cryptic warning.
To stop political activists from becoming nuns or monks, the authorities now issue permits to those seeking to join religious institutions.
