[PDF] The Nun And The Guns eBook

Author : Eddie Doherty
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1789120675

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THIS is the story of a rare human being, a dynamo of a woman who devoted her life, joyfully, humorously, expertly, uniquely, to others. Orphaned at 3, brought up by the Sisters of Charity in Nevada, a nun herself at 20, Sister Stanislaus, after several months of nurses’ training in Baltimore, was sent to work in New Orleans. She never really left. Her first, last, and only assignment was Charity Hospital, New Orleans. In time, the two became virtually synonymous. She spent over fifty years there. When she arrived, Charity Hospital comprised one antiquated building; modern medicine was in its swaddling clothes; nursing was an even more hit-or-miss affair. When she left, Charity Hospital was one of the finest in the land and nursing had become a highly professional career. Sister Stanislaus played a large part in the development of both. She brought to nursing a great and joyful zeal, an originality, and a love which affected everyone she came in contact with. Constantly perfecting herself as a nurse, she became one of the best known nursing-sisters in the country. But she did not stop there. Changing, innovating, wheedling money from a string of politicos—from Huey Long and his predecessors by Earl Long—she built Charity Hospital into the great modern institution it is. Yet her fame and her influence were not a result of her public achievement; they were based upon something more immediate, more spiritual. They grew from her all-embracing charity, her lifetime of devotion to the sick and the troubled. She was beloved as a person; the rest, an incredible array of activities and duties, accomplishment and concern, simply happened. Or so she pretended. An extraordinary personality merges from this brisk, expertly written biography, a lively and highly original nun, nurse, and human being, full of surprises but indefatigably on the job, bringing relief and consolation to thousands who passed in and out of a great hospital.

Author : Dennis E. Chase
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781432793722

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"Luci Swenson, frightened by experiences as a teenager, becomes a nun to escape and find herself. Twenty years later, still unsettled and unsure, she returns home to the small town of Crossville, Missouri, to help her sisters deal with family problems. [...] Just days after returning home, a private investigator visits and, despite herself, Luci begins to fall in love. Charles Adams, known as 'Clyde' because of his size is that Private Investigator. He resists involvement, but he finds himself attracted to Luci. They become a team as they try to solve the mysteries"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Theresa Keeley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 27,70 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501750763

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In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns, Theresa Keeley analyzes the role of intra-Catholic conflict within the framework of U.S. foreign policy formulation and execution during the Reagan administration. She challenges the preponderance of scholarship on the administration that stresses the influence of evangelical Protestants on foreign policy toward Latin America. Especially in the case of U.S. engagement in El Salvador and Nicaragua, Keeley argues, the bitter debate between U.S. and Central American Catholics over the direction of the Catholic Church shaped President Reagan's foreign policy. The flash point for these intra-Catholic disputes was the December 1980 political murder of four American Catholic missionaries in El Salvador. Liberal Catholics described nuns and priests in Central America who worked to combat structural inequality as human rights advocates living out the Gospel's spirit. Conservative Catholics saw them as agents of class conflict who furthered the so-called Gospel according to Karl Marx. The debate was an old one among Catholics, but, as Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns contends, it intensified as conservative, anticommunist Catholics played instrumental roles in crafting U.S. policy to fund the Salvadoran government and the Nicaraguan Contras. Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns describes the religious actors as human rights advocates and, against prevailing understandings of the fundamentally secular activism related to human rights, highlights religion-inspired activism during the Cold War. In charting the rightward development of American Catholicism, Keeley provides a new chapter in the history of U.S. diplomacy and shows how domestic issues such as contraception and abortion joined with foreign policy matters to shift Catholic laity toward Republican principles at home and abroad.

Author : Seth Kaufman
Publisher : Sukuma Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0986096520

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Out-of-control producer Rick Salter wants to get married, make movies and leave reality TV behind. But it's not easy. Rick's fiancé may be deported, his dropout son wants to be a gossip, embarrassing tape from his past has surfaced and a conservative group is trying to woo away his biggest star, Sister Rosemarie, for a show promoting firearms. When a senseless murder touches his life, Rick knows exactly what to do -- enlist Sister Rosemarie to make his own TV series called Nuns with Guns, about four nuns competing to collect the most weapons and get them off the street. Protests and death threats pile up as the sisters travel the country running gun exchanges. Propelled by the show's spirited stars and crazy stunts -- and the frightening shadow of death that looms over every episode -- the series becomes a smash hit. As Rick pushes the envelop, trying to save America from itself, the question emerges: who will save Rick?Nuns with Guns addresses an explosive national issue with an ingenious mix of comedy, anxiety and insight.

Author : Jon Lang
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2018-03-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781980693420

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Dark secrets plagued the Town with No Name and fear lived in the hearts of its people. That was before the nun appeared on the horizon like a mirage on a hot sunny day. A well-used pistol swung from her hip while a rosary crucifix dangled loosely from her closed fist. She came with no horse, no wagon and no donkey. Only the two legs given by the Lord propelled her into our little desert home. But was she here to save us or was she here to bring justice to those that deserve it?

Author : Ken MacGregor
Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2020-05-21
Category :
ISBN :

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Nuns With Guns. Nuns. With Guns. I challenged folks to give me a story with that as their theme. Here are nearly twenty authors who answered that crazy call, ranging from fantasy to science fiction. Modern. Historic. Urban fantasy and gritty realism. Come with us now on an amazing journey into other lands and other minds, as we explore what it means to first become a nun, and then to take up the sword. Or the gun. ---- Part of the Blaze Ward Presents anthology series, be sure to pick up An Interpretation of Moles and I Like My Science...MAD! wherever you get your books.

Author : Daniel Mason
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 11,17 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316477583

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The epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of North Woods and The Piano Tuner is "a dream of a novel...part mystery, part war story, part romance" (Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See). Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains. But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon's scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever. From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, The Winter Soldier is the story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and finally, of the mistakes we make, and the precious opportunities to atone. "The Winter Soldier brims with improbable narrative pleasures...These pages crackle with excitement... A spectacular success." —Anthony Marra, New York Times Book Review

Author : Maureen Kelly
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 2008-05-28
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780761150411

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Hallelujah, it's a book! After proving itself to be the "funniest calendar of the year" (according to Gene Shalit), "irresistible" (USA Weekend), and "habit-forming" (Maxim magazine), the Nuns Having Fun calendar has inspired Nuns Having Fun, a book of endearing nuttiness. Catholic kitsch doesn't get any funnier. Written by Maureen Kelly and Jeffrey Stone, pitch-perfect co-authors of the nuns calendar and the New York Times bestseller Growing Up Catholic, Nuns Having Fun features hundreds of sisters in full habit, cutting loose and having a hoot. Here are nuns in the surf ("This is even more fun than walking on water"), nuns in bumper cars ("We brake for Jesus"), nuns in a beer hall ("Ale Marys"), and nuns in the museum, huddled in front of a study of nudes ("It's okay to open your eyes. Sister Wendy says it's art"). There are nuns on skates, at bat, at the theater, skeet shooting (nuns with guns!), even hitting the slots (you know it's for a good cause). The 125 images are from the 1950s and '60s, black-and-white and possessing a pure retro charm; the written material is all-new. Drawing on their years as parochial school students, the authors explore the lore and legends surrounding nuns, including Favorite Punishments from Nuns, Nuns Say the Darndest Things, How to Recognize a Nun After Vatican II, a Wimple Watch, and List of People Who Could Have Been Nuns. As Sister says, "To err is human. To laugh is divine."

Author : Jon Gray Lang
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2018-09-27
Category :
ISBN :

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Dark secrets plagued the Town with No Name and fear lived in the hearts of its people. That was before the nun appeared on the horizon like a mirage on a hot sunny day. A well-used pistol swung from her hip while a rosary crucifix dangled loosely from her closed fist. She came with no horse, no wagon and no donkey. Only the two legs given by the Lord propelled her into our little desert home. But was she here to save us or was she her to bring justice to those that deserve it?