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Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters, which won the top prize at last year's Venice Film Festival, is set in Dublin in the '60s, when girls who had committed no crime more serious than naive sauciness, or who had been raped or impregnated, were sent to convent Borstals run by some very nasty nuns. "Here," one sister tells a girl, "you will be saved from eternal damnation." In fact, the place is a hell on Eire. The nuns, using their charges as unpaid laborers in a sweatshop laundry, flog the girls, make ribald fun of their naked bodies, allow...
...relatively new arrival. Twenty-two years ago, when a group of Granada's Muslim converts launched their project with the purchase of a vacant plot on the crest of the Albaicín hill, they ran into opposition. Even though the mosque site lay between a church and a convent of cloistered nuns, the local authorities suddenly designated the area as residential and scotched the plans. Legal battles ensued and tensions mounted, not just in Granada but elsewhere in Spain, where antipathy towards mainly Muslim immigrants from North Africa is never far from the surface, even though the country likes...
...Sister María, a nun visiting Granada from her home near Madrid. But her more cloistered sisters in the adjacent Convento de las Tomasas don't seem to be on the same wavelength. Ruiz points out that they have raised the height of the wall that divides the convent from the mosque and topped it in part with a metal grill. "We shall ignore it," says Ruiz, who sees the new mosque and its associated Islamic cultural center as a place where understanding between the two religions can be improved. There's much work still to do. Many...
Over the past year and a half, Law has tumbled from his position as an archbishop and one of the most influential figures in the American Catholic church to a chaplain in a small convent in Clinton, Md.—and a place in American infamy...
...years after he graduated from Harvard, Law has left the public eye for a small convent in Clinton...