Naughty nuns
Naughty nuns

Author: Rhys Ryan Evans

Publisher: Rhys Ryan Evans

Published: 2023-04-09

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1979989265

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Twins joined at birth, mother died during it, Father serving in the Irish rangers, They grew up with their uncle, their father left their mother a long while back, The twins had a special power, they could communicate with each other without talking, through their minds, The other kids in the foster school thought they were strange and the twins were bullied, But not for long though, They grew up and did some naughty things, Their father lost his younger brother, he blamed himself, He started to drink and make mistakes, he left the army feeling abandoned, 5 He made friends with not so friendly people, IRA recruited him, Dirty work, He ended up in prison, Went to the lord for help in the prison chapel, He converted and became the chapels father, His good work was noticed, the prisoners loved him too, Father Murphy was the connection to bring in things that were not allowed, He served his time and stayed on as the prison father, The new warden found out what was going on, He was expelled from the chapel and the prison, Michael found himself a position in a far-off church, 6 the head padre befriended him a long time back in the prison on one of his visits, he met Michael a long way back when he paid a visit to his barracks when he was a soldier, Fate played its part, The twins became nuns or go to prison or the army, Sent to a secured convent, Their father, now father Michael Murphy landed a position thee too, A special friend of Michael was also there, Sister Sarah, She befriended the twins straight away, Her naughty nuns she used to call them, Time went on, Father Murphy’s past caught up and caused some deep damage, 7 The twins had a plan, Sister Sarah took care of the problems in the convent, Bishop and his murdered by the IRA, Cardinal involved, Police want to call in the army, The monastery boys from next door up to no good with the young nuns, Financial problems need to be covered up, The twins discover money laundering on the computer, Father Murphy kidnaped, The twins know what they must do, they want their father back and they do

Veiled Desires
Veiled Desires

Author: Maureen Sabine

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2013-08

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0823251659

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Ingrid Bergman's engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a modern woman who had a "complete understanding" of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this vibrant and mature nun figure come to be viewed as girlish and naive? Why have she and her cinematic sisters in postwar popular film so often been stereotyped or selectively analyzed, so seldom been seen as women and religious? In Veiled Desires--a unique full-length, in-depth study of nuns in film--Maureen Sabine explores these questions in a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study covering more than sixty years of cinema. She looks at an impressive breadth of films in which the nun features as an ardent lead character, including The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Black Narcissus (1947), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Sea Wife (1957), The Nun's Story (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), Change of Habit (1969), In This House of Brede (1975), Agnes of God (1985), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Doubt (2008). Veiled Desires considers how the beautiful and charismatic stars who play chaste nuns, from Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn to Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep, call attention to desires that the veil concealed and the habit was thought to stifle. In a theologically and psychoanalytically informed argument, Sabine responds to the critics who have pigeonholed the film nun as the obedient daughter and religious handmaiden of a patriarchal church, and the respectful audience who revered her as an icon of spiritual perfection. She provides a framework for a more complex and holistic picture of nuns on screen by showing how the films dramatize these women's Christian call to serve, sacrifice, and dedicate themselves to God, and their erotic desire for intimacy, agency, achievement, and fulfillment.

Dilemma
Dilemma

Author: Albert Cutie

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1101475293

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He was a Roman Catholic priest whose love affair became headline news. Now, he shares his explosive story-in his own words... In this deeply personal and controversial memoir, Father Albert Cutié tells about the devastating struggle between upholding his sacred promises as a priest and falling in love. Already conflicted with growing ideological differences with the Church, Cutié was forced to abruptly change his life the day that he was photographed on the beach, embracing the woman he would later call his wife. Once a poster boy of the Roman Catholic Church-loved and admired by millions-Cutié found that he was not happy and able to live as a celibate priest, especially having to defend the number of positions he was no longer in agreement with. For years he kept his relationship a secret, while he soul searched and prayed for answers. The love that he deemed a blessing was bringing him closer to God, but further from the Church. In Dilemma, Cutié tells about breaking that promise, reigniting the very heated debate over mandatory celibacy for Catholic priests, beginning a new way of life and discovering a new way of serving God.

The Loud Silence of Francine Green
The Loud Silence of Francine Green

Author: Karen Cushman

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Published: 2008-09-09

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0375841172

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In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.

The Miracle Detective
The Miracle Detective

Author: Randall Sullivan

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 649

ISBN-13: 1555847447

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The Rolling Stone reporter’s “fascinating . . . globe-trotting, first-person spiritual odyssey” into the Catholic Church’s investigations of reported miracles (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). In a tiny, dilapidated trailer in northeastern Oregon, a young woman saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in an ordinary landscape painting hanging on her bedroom wall. After some skepticism from the local parish, the matter was placed “under investigation” by the Catholic diocese. Investigative journalist and Rolling Stone contributor Randall Sullivan wanted to know how, exactly, one might conduct an official inquiry into such an incident. So began his eight year immersion into the world of “Miracle Detectives.” Sullivan set off to interview theologians, historians, and postulators from the Sacred Congregation of the Causes for Saints, men charged by the Vatican with testing the miraculous and judging the holy. Sullivan traveled from the Vatican to the village of Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where six visionaries had seen apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Then, on a more personal turn, he traveled to Scottsdale, Arizona, to visit the site of America’s most controversial Virgin Mary sighting. In prose that “often reads like a spiritual whodunit,” The Miracle Detective takes you along Sullivan’s eight-year investigation into apocalyptic prophesies, claims of revelation, and the search for a genuine, direct encounter between man and god (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

The Redemption
The Redemption

Author: Howard Rubens

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2009-09-03

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1426980477

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Strangled by fits of madness, Marjaneh fell from royalty to the depths of society. Becoming a slave to the king of Arubara, she lost all hope due to her uncontrolled outrages. No chance for happiness came her way until the one-eyed stranger, Sleuth Tau, arrived. Sleuth and his one-legged brother, Alexander Tau joined the navy to fight off the pirates that killed their father and brother, enslaving their sisters. Among their tactics, they began a massive slave uprising, hoping to defeat the slavers that raided the coasts. Their fame as warriors spread along the pirate coast as they sought to end piracy, but Alexander disagreed with the methods used by his brother in bringing about this end. Do the ends really justify the means, or can the method corrupt the ideal? Argument over this issue eventually destroyed what remained of their family. In exile, Sleuth is recruited by Marjanehs owner to defend his besieged and corrupted city against certain doom. Can Sleuth Tau find redemption in Arubara, or is he lost to the violence of the sea forever?

Stealing from Angels
Stealing from Angels

Author: Brian Dullaghan

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 0595339573

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'I thought about the files I had read in London. The Vatican had assisted the Nazis. They believed that communism was a greater threat than any Adolph Hitler posed.' Stealing from angels is the story of a young Irish man who leaves his hometown to escape a life of petty crime only to stumble into a life of major crime in New York. When he meets Maria, life takes on new meaning. Together they move to Italy, to Maria's hometown, in search of legitimate success but become irrevocably connected to the murder of Pope John Paul and the third secret of Fatima. When his relationship with Maria becomes strained, he finds himself in possession of the world's most sought after secret and with no one in the world to trust. What unfolds is the story of one man's struggle with faith, success, and corruption.

Horrible Histories: Smashing Saxons
Horrible Histories: Smashing Saxons

Author: Terry Deary

Publisher: Scholastic UK

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1407133373

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Readers can discover all the foul facts about the SMASHING SAXONS, including who got cow pats as Christmas presents, why wearing a pig on your head is lucky and how to make a dead Saxon happy.

The Camp 100
The Camp 100

Author: Simon Doonan

Publisher:

Published: 2024-09-10

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0711289964

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The Camp 100 is the supreme collection of everything CAMP, a flamboyant manifesto that defines this mysterious, glittering quality in the modern cultural era.

My Journey to Grace
My Journey to Grace

Author: Dr. Lynn Carey

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2020-09-20

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 1982255145

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This is the story of one woman's journey to grace from early depression and despair. Dr. Carey has learned to heal herself physically, mentally, spiritually and financially. She shares her views from her own healing journey and from her eighteen years practicing as a chiropractor. She's concluded that the mainstream narrative and living in the rat race is causing sick and disempowered individuals. This book is to remind people of their individual power, to take it back and to use it to create their desired lifestyle!