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An official Vatican publication has exposed the widespread economic exploitation of nuns for cheap or free labor by the Catholic Church’s male hierarchy. It called for an immediate end to the servitude. ‘The (nearly) free work of the nuns’ was published in the March edition of Women Church World – the monthly magazine on women […]
The new ITV documentary sees a bunch of celebrities including Pam, Loose Women’s Linda Robson, former darts player Bobby George and ex-footballer John Fashanu, travel the United States to explore the legalisation of marijuana. And during the first episode, they visited the Sisters of the Valley who grow their own cannabis plants mainly to produce […]
The Little Hours is based on one of the tales found in The Decameron, a collection of 14th century novellas from Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. But even if, like me, you’d never heard of that author before (let alone read his work), all you really need to know about this film is that it features a […]
Melia Robinson Christine Meeusen, who goes by the name Sister Kate, grew up going to a private Catholic school and was taught by nuns. The sense of sisterhood and honorable work appealed to her. But these days, Sister Kate, 58, answers to a different, higher calling. Sister Kate is a self-proclaimed nun, though not of […]
With the rise of NPR’s popular Serial podcast, HBO’s riveting limited series The Jinx, and Netflix’s wildly addictive Making a Murderer over the span of a couple of years, the true crime genre had never been hotter. It’s cooled down a bit since 2015, but it seems like the public will always be intrigued by a murder mystery, […]
Last year, director Martin Scorsese brought us Silence, a pensive, harrowing story of 17th-century Portuguese missionaries, who embark on a perilous journey to Japan to find their missing mentor and struggle with the decision of renouncing their faith or suffering an agonizing death. This year, director Jeff Baena brings us a trio of raunchy, horny […]
The sisters caring for cognitively impaired elderly nuns in a Midwestern convent spoke to their care recipients in a strikingly different way, linguistic anthropologist finds. CBC | Health News
