Word: conventionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...been in this boat before," Wittrup said. "Two years ago, we proposed a plan for a similar type of hospital on the Convent site, and the information was released too soon and the hospital was never bulit because...
...When I entered the convent, I never expected to be fashionable again. However, I now find I'm in the avant-garde of the Longuette look [Sept. 14] in my religious habit...
Recruiting Stopped. Such misrepresentation and the lack of training appear to have been the most serious injustices. With only three weeks of language instruction, the novices from India found convent life even more difficult because they could not communicate. To complicate the problem, not all the girls wanted to become nuns: many wanted to learn teaching or nursing and hoped eventually to be sent back to their homeland. Still others apparently wanted only to escape from the problems of Kerala...
...nervous breakdown of one of Puthenpura's recruits finally brought some limited Vatican action. When Novice Mary Kutty was hospitalized in Florence in 1969, her language teacher fought for her return to India. Puthenpura failed to respond, but the convent finally sent her back and she promptly recovered. Last February papal Secretary of State Jean Cardinal Villot ordered all recruiting to stop. In June papal nuncios in Europe were ordered to interview every Indian novice; Rome's investigation is still going...
What is remarkable is the fact that more nuns have not complained and that many of the young Indian girls have adjusted well to convent life. The Vatican weekly, L'Osservatore della Domenica, this week published a story on happy Indian novices, including some ready to take their vows. But others are still disillusioned. In a letter released to the press, Anna E.T. Elakattu, a novice in Italy, described the details of her drudgery. "They tell us they bought us for 6,000 rupees," she added dramatically. "What can we slaves do?" The letter made big news in Italy...