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• BBC Abandons Ballet With Deformed Rapist Pope (why was it even being considered?!?!)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  The BBC has abandoned plans to screen a ballet featuring a deformed Pope who rapes nuns that it had announced as one of the highlights of its Christmas schedule. Last month the corporation said it would televise "In The Spirit Of Diaghilev" from Londons Sadlers Wells Dance Theatre as part of a season of ballet ...
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• I Think The Vatican Has Its Answer

  
  Acts of the Apostasy — Authority: 560
  From the National Catholic Distorter: Women Religious Not Complying With Vatican Study The vast majority of U.S. women religious are not complying with a Vatican request to answer questions in a document of inquiry that is part of a three-year study of the congregations. Leaders of congregations, instead, are ...
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• Nun Has VD

  
  Daily Cow — Authority: 503
  Mother Superior called all the nuns together and said to them, “I must tell you all something. We have a case of gonorrheae in the convent.” “Thank God,” said an elderly nun at the back. “I’m so tired of chardonnay.”
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• Women religious not complying with Vatican study

  
  SANCTE PATER — Authority: 539
  By Thomas C. Fox (National Catholic Reporter) The vast majority of U.S. women religious are not complying with a Vatican request to answer questions in a document of inquiry that is part of a three-year study of the congregations. Leaders of congregations, instead, are leaving questions unanswered or sending in ...
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• Soft Targets

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 154
  OK, here’s the thing Connecticut burglars, anyone worth their salt knows stealing from nuns ain’t going to net you any great worth, secondly it’s just nasty. Thieves broke into the Sister’s of Mercy in Hartford, Connecticut and took off with a book bag and a Toyota Corolla. You guys are going to hell!
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• ‘Twas the Month Before Christmas…

  
  Londonderry NH net — Authority: 142
  She came running into the room, her voice rushed and just a bit higher than usual. “No, no, no…turn it off.  Turn it off!”“What?  What?”  I asked my wife, surprised at this outburst.  “What did I do?”“Just find another station!” she said.  So I did.  I spun the dial to our usual talk radio ...
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• Vocations, Vocations, Vocations

  
  Contemplative Horizon — Authority: 414
  The Harvest is Plentiful and the Laborers are Few Professionalese has crept into religious life. The person in a monastery of nuns or a congregation of sisters who receives inquiries from those considering a vocation to religious life is called the vocation director. The person who is responsible for ...
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• Beatitudes [Lives Of The]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 813
  Sister Maria Alfonsina Danil Ghattas , a Palestinian nun whose Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Jerusalem continues her work of educating Arab girls, has been beatified. [ MSNBC ]
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• A spiritual gift

  
  Gender Masala — Authority: 112
  Patriarchal in all senses. By M. Sayagues What drives a 17-year-old girl to enter a monastery? Today she is 30, and still happy about her choice. Her eyes sparkle and her laughter comes easy. She exudes peace. I will call her Gabra (gift, in Amharic), for our conversation was private. I met her at a monastery ...
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• As Prosecutors Say That Charles Taylor Was Not Honest With United Nations Panel of Experts, Taylor Admits That Liberian Rebels and Government Shared Information With The CIA

  
  The Trial of Charles Taylor — Authority: 466
  As the cross-examination of former Liberian president Charles Taylor continued into a second week, Prosecutors this week told Special Court for Sierra Leone  that the former Liberian president was “not honest” with the United Nations Panel of Experts set up to investigate his alleged dealings with Sierra Leonean ...
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• A Rogue of a Weekend

  
  Yo Mama For Obama — Authority: 124
  Since you have a lot of serious reading for this weekend, I thought I would provide you with some comic relief.It is truly amazing that people who aren’t supposed to know certain things, really do know about them.  Thank Heavens we have this back-up!“Going Rogue” is a many-layered proposition.  Our Sarah has ...
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• Save The Dead Compilation

  
  Punk Not Profit — Authority: 417
  This 80s comp. integrates bands across the U.S., from Florida to Michigan to Idaho, from Texas to Chicago and the list just keeps on goin... Nice hardcore punk noise compiled on tape for your sonic rediscovery. Tracklist: Side A: 1) Stevie Stiletto "Point Of View" 2) Stevie Stiletto "Food For Flies" 3) Maggot ...
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• BLESSED PHILIPPINE DUCHESNE: ‘The-Woman-Who-Always-Prays,’ SACRE COEUR French missionary sisters: Religious of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis + Nouvelles Orleans, Nov. 18, 1852

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 431
  NOVEMBER 18 1852 Bl. Philippine Duchesne, who left France at forty-nine and founded, mostly in the vicinity of St. Louis and New Orleans, the first American houses of the Religious of the Sacred Heart. Because of her long hours before  the Blessed Sacrament, she is best characterized by the name given her by ...
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• The “Living Single” Attitude: Should Visitors to Dating Sites Run Into It?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Soon after the Singled Out was first published, I got a call from an editor at the online magazine called Happen. She said she loved Singled Out and wanted me to write for her magazine. Then she added that Happen was the magazine associated with Match.com, and I just laughed. I thought this was the start of ...
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• Prosecution Reads Statements By The International Community Condemning The Actions Of Charles Taylor’s Rebel Group In Liberia

  
  The Trial of Charles Taylor — Authority: 466
  Prosecutors spent much of today’s cross-examination of former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, reading out statements by other West African leaders condemning Mr. Taylor Liberian rebel group for crimes committed against Liberians and members of international humanitarian agencies, including American Catholic nuns ...
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• Gifts for the hard-to-buy-for

  
  LifeLock — Authority: 110
  Shopping for the kids on your list is definitely more fun, but you can’t put it off any longer: it’s time to figure out what to buy for all those hard-to-buy-for people on your holiday shopping list. Well, lucky you, I have some tips on what to buy—and perhaps more importantly—what not to buy. I know that ...
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• Monks, Nuns Gather Donations for Burmese Refugees

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
  More than 200 Buddhist monks and nuns asked for alms donations in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Monday to send to Burmese refugees who live in camps along the Thailand-Burma border. The project was supported by the International Network of Engaged Buddhist (INEB), the Friends of Burma and other civil society groups that ...
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• Know Your Nuns - Sunday Funnies Edition

  
  Is Anybody There? — Authority: 444
  FAUX REAL NUN Sr Donna Quinn OP (L) Sinsinawa Dominican Supports abortion, womens ordination, Rainbow Sasher All arround dissident towards authentic Catholic teachings REAL FAUX NUN Sister Mary Of The Cave (AKA: Vir Speluncae Catholicus ) Defender of the Faith USMC (Retired) Worst ...
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• Underground Reading: Murder in a Nunnery by Eric Shepherd

  
  pornokitsch — Authority: 126
  First published in 1940, Murder in a Nunnery is a charming, traditional whodunnit set in an unusual location.* It is also - oddly & enjoyably - the least tense thriller in the history of the genre. Combining a sly sense of humor with adorable characters, this book is less about the gory business of solving a ...
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• Who Can We Trust?

  
  As You Like It — Authority: 112
  Neurontin might not be a drug for sexual problems, but this weeks controversy surrounding it speaks volumes for the concerns I have about a number of the drug studies that I read in medical journals. These are journals I should be able to trust, but trust does not always run deep when so much of a journals revenue ...
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