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  2. The Lilies of the Field (novel) - Wikipedia

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    While the nuns attend Mass, he takes the opportunity to get a "man’s breakfast" at the café. The owner tells him that the nuns came from East Germany, as the property was willed to their Order by potato farmer Gus Ritter, whose sister was a nun with the Order. The owner and townsfolk do not believe the nuns can succeed in their endeavors.

  3. Maria Monk - Wikipedia

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    The book is considered by scholars to be an anti-Catholic hoax. [1] [2] Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk was published in January 1836. In it, Monk claimed that nuns of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph of the Montreal convent of the Hôtel-Dieu, whom she called "the Black Nuns", were forced to have sex with the priests in the seminary ...

  4. Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy

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    The book is a study of the life of Sister Benedetta Carlini, a 17th-century Italian nun who was accused of lesbianism and other "immodest acts". [5] [6] The book explores the cultural, social, and religious context of the time and the consequences faced by Sister Benedetta as a result of her alleged actions.

  5. Rebecca Theresa Reed - Wikipedia

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    Rebecca Theresa Reed (1813-1838) was an American escaped nun and author of the memoir Six Months in a Convent, which influenced the first of many anti-Catholic waves. [clarification needed] Reed’s book vividly describes her experience in an Ursuline convent and has sold thousands of copies.

  6. White Noise (novel) - Wikipedia

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    In White Noise, not even Catholic nuns believe in God." [34] However, Professor Majeed Jadwe countered with, "White Noise begins and ends with a ritual. The first is the convoy of station wagons arriving for the new school year, which Jack describes as an event which he has not missed in 21 years. It ends with the public ritual of self-hood ...

  7. La Religieuse (novel) - Wikipedia

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    La Religieuse (novel). La Religieuse (also called The Nun or Memoirs of a Nun) is an 18th-century French novel by Denis Diderot.Completed in about 1780, it was first published by Friedrich Melchior Grimm in 1792 (eight years after Diderot's death) in his Correspondance littéraire in Saxony, and subsequently in 1796 in France.

  8. Benedictine College Nuns Condemn Harrison Butker Commencement ...

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    Chris Unger/Getty Images The nuns of Benedictine College have made it clear they do not approve of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s commencement address. Butker, 28, delivered the ...

  9. Venus in the Cloister - Wikipedia

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    The entire story can be considered as a “whore dialogue” [4] in which the elder nun trains the younger one in matters of sex. Sister Angelica is the older and more experienced nun who had come to the convent at the age of thirteen. She has been a part of the House for almost seven years now while Sister Agnes is younger and new to the place ...