{"id":26282,"date":"2011-02-25T12:33:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T16:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/oscars-2011-and-a-nun\/"},"modified":"2011-02-25T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T16:33:50","slug":"oscars-2011-and-a-nun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/oscars-2011-and-a-nun\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2011 and a nun"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dolores<\/a>Not surprising that many people are interested in sensational stories like “Mother Dolores Hart: The Nun Who Kissed Elvis Presley<\/a>.” I guess kissing Elvis is akin to winning the jackpot. Each to his or her own! Thom Geier’s story is exactly titled such on EW.com. I have to admit, however, I am fascinated –to a degree– by this woman’s gesture of following a vocation that had in mind her eternal destiny and not just money, fame and power. Hart’s life and enduring witness to Christ at the Abbey of Regina Laudis<\/a>, Bethlehem, CT, is inspiring. Who wouldn’t be inspired by a beautiful woman giving her life to God through monastic consecration!<\/span><\/p>\n


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The following gives a flavor of Geier’s article: “Over the course of nearly half a century as a Roman
\nCatholic nun, Mother Dolores has had many jobs: choir member, baker, and coffin
\nmaker. She’s served as prioress, the convent’s second in command, for nine
\nyears. But for the past two decades, she has spent a good deal of time each
\nwinter on another assignment that harks back to her earlier, pre-monastic life:
\nOscar voter.”<\/span><\/div>\n

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Mother Dolores’ autobiography ought to be out soon.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not surprising that many people are interested in sensational stories like “Mother Dolores Hart: The Nun Who Kissed Elvis Presley.” I guess kissing Elvis is akin to winning the jackpot. Each to his or her own! Thom Geier’s story is exactly titled such on EW.com. I have to admit, however, I am fascinated –to a … Continue reading Oscars 2011 and a nun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[32089,1778,1796,1724,2164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}