Using nuns and monks as human shields does sound like a tactic of Johnny Depp's swashbuckler Captain Jack Sparrow. In De Americaensche Zee- Roovers, author Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin accused English pirate Henry Morgan of using nuns and monks as human shields. Above: The book; right, its depiction of Morgan Johnny Depp seen as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of …
BUENOS AIRES — Several feminist groups are calling for protests Tuesday in support of a community of cloistered nuns who have caused shockwaves by accusing the archbishop of a northern Argentine province and other church officials of gender-based psychological and physical violence. “It’s historic in the feminist struggle for a bishop and other religious leaders to be warned in this …
PARIS — Designer Gabriela Hearst brandished her green mindedness by setting her Chloe show at Paris Fashion Week on Thursday inside a famous Parisian greenhouse. RICK OWENS BLOWS SMOKE From out of perfumed mist in the Palais de Tokyo runway, models with disrupted forms, elongated shoulders and long tubular arms shuffled out for Rick Owens’ latest fashion show — one …
The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Life magazine called them “The Pope’s Unruly Flock” in one memorable headline flashing across director Pedro Kos’s buoyant, collage-like telling, which assembles interviews, archival clips, verité, art, music cues and animation into whatever the opposite of a dry educational film is. An image from the documentary “Rebel …
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