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From left to right, Martin Sheen, Mother Teresa and Joe Cosgrove after Mass. The celebrant is on the far right. It was a quarter-century since the beginning of World War II when Pope Paul VI spoke to the U.N. General Assembly and pleaded with the world to leave its violent ways aside and follow the path of peace. “No more war, war never again!” he exclaimed. Another quarter-century later, that message had all but dissolved as war exploded in the Persian Gulf. In response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, the Western powers had assembled a ground and aerial combat force the size of which ha...

Former art studio of Sister Mary Corita, LA’s ‘pop art nun,’ spared from demolition for now The art studio of the late Corita Kent, known as LA’s “pop art nun,” is now a dry cleaner and had been slated for demolition to make way for additional parking.  Artist Corita Kent’s former Hollywood art studio on Franklin Avenue in Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Corita Art Center/Immaculate Heart Community December 17, 2020 LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The former Hollywood art studio of a Roman Catholic religious sister who was known for her pop art covering racism, poverty and m...

Corita Kent, known as Sister Mary Corita, in front of some of her artwork. (Courtesy of Corita Art Center/Immaculate Heart Community) Los Angeles — The former Hollywood art studio of a Roman Catholic religious sister who was known for her pop art covering racism, poverty and misogyny appears to have been spared from the wrecking ball after all. The art studio of the late Corita Kent, known as LA's "pop art nun," is now a dry cleaner and had been slated for demolition to make way for additional parking.  To prevent this, the nonprofit Corita Art Center and the Los Angeles ...

who knows that we're all living toward dying -- that is, that we live every day against the horizon of the fact that we're going to die -- i hope people will be able to enter into what in many ways was the exhilarating and inspiring albeit painful experience of being at death's door and being brought back. c-span: what year was this? >> guest: in 1993, january 10th, was when it all began. c-span: where? >> guest: new york city, where i live. and it was the kind of thing that ought not to have happened .. medical people. a number of lawyers have told me that i have a great malpractice...