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Article: 'Sister Rose's Passion' up for Academy Award.(Movies)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- February 18, 2005
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A short film about now 84-year-old Dominican Sr. Rose Thering and her work to fight anti-Semitism is one of five films nominated for the 2005 Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary Short. "Sister Rose's Passion" chronicles Sr. Thering's struggle to help the Catholic church change its relationship with Jews.
According to a news release put out by the Racine Dominicans, when Sr. Thering was growing up on a dairy farm near Plain, Wis., she did not know any Jews. "I only knew them from what we read in our religious textbooks," she's quoted as saying. After entering the Sisters of St. Dominic, she taught for years in elementary and high schools and then ...