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Evanovich's sisters say they know what their brother was doing was wrong, but they say the police should have handled the response because they’re trained to deal with crimes in progress. Johnita Beal says the witness should have dialed 911, "Police could have been easily contacted, easily, and my brother would have been behind bars, or something like that, but no, he's gone now."

Sisters suing to get Social Security numbersThe sisters, who live in Laurel County, say their parents never sought birth certificates, vaccination records, or Social Security numbers for them. Posted: 11:04 AM Aug 4, 2011 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Raechel Colleen Schultz and her sister, Stephanie Marie Schultz, are looking for recognition by the government. The two women, who live in rural Lily, Ky., were born at home. They were home-schooled and their parents never sought birth certificates, vaccination records or Social Security numbers for them. Now, 29-year-old Raechel and 23-year-old Stephanie have sued the Social Security Administration in an effort...

CARA Reports on Religious Life Confirm TraditionBy: Msgr. Charles Pope On February 2 the National Conference of Catholic Bishops released a report on Religious life. The study was conducted by the very reputable Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA).The Bishops’ report is interesting and informative for what it says, but also has puzzling omissions in the topics covered, which seem to amount to ignoring the “elephant in the room.”  The “elephant” is the rather obvious fact that religious communities that preserve traditional elements such as the habit, common prayer, communal life, focused apostolates and strong affirmation of...

French Benedictine Sisters Top Pop Charts in UK New Gregorian-CD of Benedictines from Avignon is on the English Top 15 List -- The Gregorian Choir Speaks "to the Soul". Paris (kath.net) The French Benedictines of Notre Dame de l'Annonciation of Avignon have made a CD with their Gregorian songs and have stormed the UK Top 15 of the British charts. The album reflects with the songs to profession of the withdrawn lives of the Sisters: "The Gregorian Choir helps us to draw completely close to the Lord God. He doesn't speak to the senses, rather to the soul", explained a...

Secrets of the Habit – A Fascinating Video and Reflection on the Wearing of the HabitBy: Msgr. Charles Pope  The video at the bottom of this post is a fascinating little exploration of the traditional habit of Religious Sisters. The video does not make it clear as  to what Order the Habit belonged. There are many things I learned about a habit I never knew. Things like hidden “saddle bag” pockets, opening crucifixes, symbolism in the pleats, and the purpose of the outer veil. I hope you’ll take time an view a fascinating video.Sadly,  the sister who recounts the hidden...

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Politics is opportunistic; in the wake of the last three weeks unending coverage of the decades-old scandals in the Catholic church, Lisa Miller of Newsweek has decided that this is the time to push for the feminist interests.

The Sisters of the Visitation were the fruit of the spiritual relationship between two great saints – St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane Frances de Chantal. In 1601, Jane was a twenty-eight year old widow and mother of four small children. She took a vow of chastity and began a search for a spiritual director. In 1604, she met St. Francis de Sales. They became lifelong spiritual friends. He shared with her his dream of beginning a religious order for women. It would be different from other orders in that poor health or advanced age would not be a...

"On the importance of seeking knowledge" Monday, 18 January 2010 14:06 YounusAbdullahMuhammad SNIPPET: "This is a post from a new author here at RevolutionMuslim.com. Her name is Qismah bint Faisal. She was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, is currently a second year university student majoring in Neuroscience and Psychology and reports that..."" Quote - Snippet: SNIPPET: "Thus, the only solution that will remedy this ailment is a return back to the authentic teachings of islam. Culture must be expelled if it conflicts with islam. As one sister summed it up ever so bluntly, " If your culture goes against...

"The concept of 'one for all and all for one' can get pretty absurd," the late Jerusalem Post staffer and columnist Sam Orbaum wrote about his identical triplet daughters 14 years ago. Orbaum, who passed away in 2002 at the age of 46, went on in the column, entitled "The threeness of it all," to describe life as a father of identical triplets. Not only did he sometimes mix them up, Orbaum wrote in his well-known wry, comic style, but he was also constantly impressed by their tight bond - when for example they stood up for one another in...

The uncloistered sisters are being checked out and they don’t like it. While I’ve only met a few religious sisters, based on my interactions with one of them, her lack of orthodoxy in word and deed, I’m not surprised these women are worried. My guess is that the sisters who wear habits are more orthodox than these folks.In this article, the Church is characterized as misogynistic and distrustful of religious sisters not under direct, ecclesiastic control; my understanding is that the orders are authorized by a Bishop to begin with and said Bishop has control. What am I missing...

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20090526.htm#head6 Book says young women attracted to orders whose members wear habits DENVER (CNS) -- While the last 40 years have seen an overall drop in the numbers of women entering religious life, a new book released by the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious says orders that are more visibly countercultural seem to be flourishing. The council represents the superiors of more than 100 religious communities of sisters whose members wear an identifiable religious habit. A canonically approved organization founded in 1992 to promote religious life in the United States, the council notes that the average age of...

CAMP STRIKER, Iraq, May 5, 2009 – Some soldiers turn to friends within their unit for the support they need during a deployment. Others are lucky enough to have a family member serving with them. Army Staff Sgt. Melodie A. Hunt, left, and her sister, Army Pfc. Mallorie A. Hunt share a moment during their lunch time. The Hunt sisters are deployed to Baghdad. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Jasmine N. Walthall   (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Army Staff Sgt. Melodie A. Hunt and Army Pfc. Mallorie A. Hunt, Lumberton N.C. natives, are sisters who are currently...

Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia greet each other after a Mass at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville, Tenn., in this 2007 file photo. Though the Nashville order is growing, the debate continues on why there has been a 50-year decline in the number of women religious worldwide. (CNS/Theresa Laurence, Tennessee Register) By Cindy WoodenCatholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Statistics leave no doubt that the number of women religious has dropped sharply over the last 50 years, but there is an ongoing debate over the reasons for the decline. The question surfaced recently when L'Osservatore Romano,...

Sad news from the pages of this morning's New York Times: Behind the red-brick walls encircling the Convent of Mercy in Brooklyn, generations of nuns have taught the illiterate, sheltered the homeless and raised orphans. They are known as the Walking Sisters, ministering in the community as well as inside their convent. Now, after 146 years, it is time for the small band of sisters, most of them retired, to walk away from the convent. The leadership of their order, the Sisters of Mercy, decided to shutter the place and scatter the sisters to other homes and nursing facilities after...

According to a friend, among the Anglicans now considering a corporate leap to Rome is a group of religious sisters called the All Saints Sisters of the Poor, who are located near Catonsville, Mayland about 10 miles from Baltimore.Their website introduction is refreshingly simple and straightforward:All Saints is a traditional Community desiring to uphold orthodox Christian faith and morality and to support the Apostolic tradition in ministry and practice. We are united by our common commitment to the One Lord Jesus Christ, and by the desire to live for Him. With that unity, and made possible by it, there...

If this picture of a U.S. Marine training an Iraqi woman to shoot doesn’t warm your heart, you’re not a real conservative:

DNA reveals sister power in Ancient Greece 02 Jun 2008 University of Manchester researchers have revealed how women, as well as men, held positions of power in ancient Greece by right of birth. Women were thought to have had little power in ancient Greece, unless they married a powerful man and were able to influence him. But a team of researchers testing ancient DNA from a high status, male-dominated cemetery at Mycenae in Greece believe they have identified a brother and sister buried together in a richly endowed grave, suggesting that she had as much power as him. The team,...

The Eparchy of St. Maron of Brooklyn takes the historic step this June of establishing the first congregation of active religious sisters of the Maronite Church within the United States. Called the Maronite Servants of Christ the Light, these sisters will assist parish priests throughout the eparchy in a variety of pastoral work, ranging from directing religious education programs, to working with families, youth, and the elderly. Statement from Bishop Gregory J. Mansour The contribution made by consecrated women in the Church is beyond measure. The Maronite Church is no exception. The time has come for the Eparchy of Saint...

WASHINGTON, March 25, 2008 – In 1967, Robert Hutchinson was a young soldier serving in the jungles of Vietnam. He was concerned that the men in his unit weren’t getting enough mail from home. Members of 4th Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, pose for a photo while serving in Vietnam. They were part of the unit adopted by San Mateo, Calif., in 1968. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Sgt. Joe Artavia’s letter home to his sister, Linda Patterson, asking her to find a city to adopt his unit made a...

Marine Corps News Sisters of Fallujah help to protect city March 2, 2008; Submitted on: 03/02/2008 11:32:56 AM ; Story ID#: 200832113256 By Sgt. Nathaniel C. LeBlanc, 1st Marine Division A Sister of Fallujah, searches a woman’s bag of canned tomatoes at Entry Control Point 1 in Fallujah, Iraq. She searches every woman, child and their belonging at the ECP before entering the city; looking for any suspicious items that could be harmful to the public such as bomb-making material. A Sister of Fallujah, searches a woman’s purse at Entry Control Point 1 in Fallujah, Iraq. She searches every...

SACRAMENTO, CA (CNS) - Rosalind Moss, an author who is an Eternal Word Television Network TV host and one of the network's radio hosts, announced Feb. 13 that she is starting a new community of sisters in the Archdiocese of St. Louis with the permission of Archbishop Raymond L. Burke. The new group will be called the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel's Hope, she told an audience of more than 200 at the Catholic Breakfast Club of Sacramento. Moss, 65, said she hopes to move to St. Louis within a few months, intends to fulfill as many of her...

Dr. Eileen Clifford, left, with her patient Mary Ferraro at the St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson. Eileen M. Clifford was twice denied admission to the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey -- so she started medical school in Mexico.  Now at 67, she is director of care management for St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson and Wayne, and an internist in private practice in Fair Lawn. Clifford, who lives in Clifton, is also a Sister of Charity who started her career wearing a habit and performing nursing duties at St. Joseph's Hospital.   Much has...

KIRKUK, Iraq, Aug. 17, 2007 – Twin sisters and fellow Army Spcs. Sarah and Angela Andrews helped promote their brother, Ryan McCarty, to sergeant here earlier this month. Ryan McCarty (right), of 2nd Squadron, 6th U.S. Cavalry Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, gets pinned with sergeant rank by his twin sisters, Spcs. Sarah (center) and Angela Andrews (left), both soldiers with 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, at Forward Operating Base Warrior, in Kirkuk, Iraq, Aug. 10. McCarty’s sisters traveled from Forward Operating Base Warhorse, in Baqubah, for the event and brief family reunion. Photo by Sgt. Mike Alberts, USA  (Click...

Fr. Francis Mary welcomes the The Community of Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal was Established in 1988 under the auspices of John Cardinal O’Connor of New York, with Fr. Andrew Apostoli, CFR, as Founding Father. The aim of the Community is to live the Gospel values in simplicity according to the ideals of Saint Francis as handed on by the Capuchin tradition. The spiritual values uniting the sisters are personal and communal commitment to Jesus Christ through contemplative and liturgical prayer (daily Mass and Divine Office), daily Eucharistic adoration, Fridays as a special day of prayer, a time set...

Band of Sisters Plays Key Role in Iraq Security Female Seabees volunteer to help with searches. By Petty Officer 2nd Class Judith OwenNaval Mobile Construction Battalion 28 Public Affairs CAMP AL ASAD, Iraq, May 18, 2007 — Three women from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 28 took the Navy in a new direction in the war on terrorism when, on May 3, they returned to Camp Al Asad, Iraq, as the first Seabees trained in a Marine Corps program called Lioness. "These women have volunteered to execute this difficult mission because they recognize the importance of what the Lioness program...

SIERRA VISTA — When 10-year-old Katrina Tillman-Neff learned that her “adopted” Grandma Winnie’s manufactured home had burned down in Whetstone on March 30, she was distressed. So was her sister, Aryanna Hiatt-Neff, who is just 7. The girls are students at Town & Country Elementary School, and both wanted to do something to help Winnabel Sinz, 70, a dear family friend who escaped unharmed but lost everything in the blaze. When Katrina told her fourth-grade teacher, Patricia Stickler, what had happened and how badly she felt for Grandma Winnie, an idea just seemed to pop. So on Friday beginning at...

(Keenesburg, Co.) - Flora Zimbelman says it all started 54 years ago when she put an uncooked hot dog in her sister’s suitcase. "I don’t know what made me do it. The devil I guess," she said. Flora’s sister, Rose, found the hot dog when she opened the suitcase back up in Idaho, where she lived at the time. "She mailed it back to me telling me to keep my garbage at home," said Flora. The game was on. In the years that followed, Flora would find a way to sneak the hot dog back into Rose's life. And Rose...

One woman donated her sewing skills. A local electrician gave manpower. A group of musicians offered up a concert. Since learning of the financial concerns of the nuns who occupy the 66-year-old Benedictine Monastery in Midtown, support has come from all over Tucson. The deeply humble nuns, who aren't accustomed to seeking assistance, or even passing a collection plate at their services, have successfully forayed into fundraising the past year, too. "Somehow God is working by putting all these people in our lives," said Sister Lupita Barajas, prioress of the rose-colored monastery at 800 N. Country Club Road, home to...

10/6/2006 - EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AFPN) -- Eighteen children from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Fairbanks, Alaska, met Airmen from the 355th Fighter Squadron and received an up close and personal look at an A-10 Thunderbolt II when they visited here Sept. 30. "The 355th FS not only wanted to help (Big Brothers Big Sisters) in that regard, but they also wanted to honor the 'Bigs' for their dedication and time they give to these children, the community, and quite honestly, the nation," said Lt. Col. Quentin Rideout, 355th FS commander. Once at the squadron, the Big...

Who are the moles? The question was like a parlor game for employees of State Farm Insurance Co. after Hurricane Katrina, one they nervously played during coffee breaks or in the parking lot after work. Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, a prominent lawyer of tobacco litigation fame, created a stir by announcing in March that two "insiders" were helping him build cases against insurers for denying claims for Hurricane Katrina losses. Their identities remained a mystery until the day in early June when Cori and Kerri Rigsby — employees of a company that contracted with State Farm — told a supervisor they...

AL ASAD, Iraq, Aug. 25, 2006 -- When two sisters from Jefferson, Ga., walked into a Marine Corps recruiting station and decided to join, they had no idea the entire experience of a four-year enlistment would be spent together. Cpls. Leenorta and Renorta Washington are electrical equipment repair specialists with the Utilities Platoon of Marine Wing Support Squadron 274, Marine Wing Support Group 37 (Reinforced), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, and have not been separated once since leaving home for recruit training. “We joined the Delayed Entry Program on the same day,” said Renorta. “We worked to get into the...

NEW YORK (July 18, 2006) -- Laura Landro has the Marines in her blood, literally. Landro was told by her doctors that she had developed leukemia and had little more than two years to live. The cancer specialists told her that only one thing could save her life. If she could defy the odds, find a suitable match with another person’s genetic composition, and receive a bone marrow transplant, she would live. The odds were slim and time was not on her side. "Leukemia is a formidable cancer,” said Landro from her office at the Wall Street Journal in N.Y....

Hamas leader's three sisters live secretly in Israel as full citizens By Tim Butcher in Tel Sheva (Filed: 02/06/2006)Ismail Haniyeh: Visited family Israel regards Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian Hamas prime minister, as an enemy of state. But three of his sisters enjoy full Israeli citizenship, having moved 30 years ago to the desert town of Tel Sheva. Some of their offspring have even served in the Israeli army, the force responsible for decades of Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank, an occupation that the Islamist movement, Hamas, was founded to fight.The Daily Telegraph tracked down the Haniyeh sisters,...

U.S. Air Force Capt. Jeremy Holmes 1st Lt. Jordan Holmes  B-52 Pilot Takes on Fuel from Little Sister’s Plane over Afghanistan By Master Sgt. Scott King 40th Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, April 12, 2006 — Over the skies of Afghanistan, during a combat mission, one B-52 pilot got a surprise of a lifetime – “hooking� up with family. “I was surprised to hear her voice,� said Capt. Jeremy Holmes, 40th Air Expeditionary Group B-52 aircraft commander. “To make absolutely sure it was her, without throwing out any names over the radio, I asked if there...

Three eco-terrorists were sentenced Friday to federal prison for a series of firebombings that put towns in the Sierra foothills on edge. Ryan Daniel Lewis, 22, the alleged leader of the group, was sentenced to six years, and two sisters - Eva Rose Holland, 26, and Lili Marie Holland, 21 - were each handed two-year prison terms. Prosecutors alleged Lewis recruited the Holland sisters and Jeremiah Dean Colcleasure, 24, on Christmas Eve 2004 to help him burn down two unoccupied upscale homes in Lincoln, a Sacramento suburb, in the name of the Earth Liberation Front. The FBI calls the ELF...

  U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Aurelia Garza Senior Airman Patricia Maghanoy Sisters Share Career Field, Squadron, Flight By Tech. Sgt. Kevin Williams 20th Fighter Wing Public Affairs SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C., March 9, 2006 — Twins obviously have a lot in common, but for Senior Airmen Patricia Maghanoy and Aurelia Garza, twins, the similarities don't end there. These 20th Component Maintenance Squadron aerospace propulsion journeymen also share the same career field, squadron and flight. Born Jan. 30, 1984, in Yakima, Wash., the twins began their Air Force career together Jan. 18, 2002. "They didn't know (we were...

MILWAUKEE -- A Milwaukee mother woke up Thursday morning to find an intruder in her house, but she was more than equipped to defend herself, her children and her little brother. The man went through a window into the woman's house. Her first instinct, she told 12 News, on hearing the breaking glass downstairs at the front door was to call 911, which she did. However, with her young son and teenage brother downstairs, she decided she couldn't wait and had to take things into her own hands. At 6 a.m., she was awakened by the sound of broken glass,...

U.S. Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer 3 Lauren LaVine signs the enlistment contract for his two daughters, Nicole and Shannon, after they were sworn into the Marine Corps Jan 23, at Naval Station, Pearl Harbor. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Ryan E. Ohare U.S. Marine Corps Shannon and Nicole LaVine Sisters Carry on Family Tradition By Sgt. Ryan E. Ohare Marine Forces Pacific CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii, Jan. 25, 2006 — The United States Marine Corps is a service rich in tradition and customs. For centuries, sons and daughters have followed in the footsteps of their parents and...

U.S. Army Spcs. Elizabeth and Juanita Rodriguez Sisters Make the Most of Deployment By Spc. Laura E. Griffin Task Force Devil Public Affairs CAMP CHAPMAN, Afghanistan, Nov. 2, 2005 — U.S. Army Spcs. Elizabeth and Juanita Rodriguez are sharing more than the same laugh, the same job, and the same last name these days. They are also sharing an experience that has brought them closer as sisters; they are both stationed at Camp Chapman, Afghanistan, during their deployment for Operation Enduring Freedom VI. The Rodriguez’s, both National Guard automated logistics specialists with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 142nd...

WASHINGTON, July 24, 2005 – A group based here at Walter Reed Army Medical Center here has stepped forward to help families of wounded servicemembers with expenses to stay in the area while their loved ones recover in this high-cost area. Out of concern for the overwhelming number of family members of war-wounded servicemembers showing up at the hospital's doorstep needing financial assistance, the Walter Reed command asked the Walter Reed Society to help. "So on March 19, 2004, we created the Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom Family Support Fund," said retired Army Sgt. Maj. Daniel J. Bullis, the society's...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland - A Belfast man was charged Friday in the IRA-linked knife slaying of a Catholic man outside a pub earlier this year, the first breakthrough in a case that has overshadowed Northern Ireland's peace process for months. A 49-year-old man will face a charge of murdering Robert McCartney, while a 36-year-old man will be charged with the attempted murder of his friend Brendan Devine, who was seriously wounded in the Jan. 30 attack, police said. The arraignment was set for Saturday in Belfast Crown Court. McCartney's sisters - who have taken their campaign to the White House...

In memory of our fallen brothers and sisters, there will be no posting over the Memorial Day Weekend. Postings will resume on Tuesday, May 31st. "“They stand in the unbroken line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom might live, and grow, and increase its blessings. Freedom lives and through it, they live in a way that humbles the understandings of most men.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The sisters' once-promising lives had spiraled down into drugs and arrests. LAKELAND -- In the late 1980s, twin sisters Jennifer Rowse and Charlotte Johnston were police officers patrolling the streets of Tampa. Friday, seemingly a lifetime later, the sisters turned up dead inside a Lakeland motel room. Early on, the investigation offered few clues about the deaths of the 44-year-old sisters. The motel manager found them -- one on the bed and one on the floor -- after forcing open the door to Room 223 at the Days Inn on East Memorial Boulevard. The door was locked from the inside....

WOODBRIDGE, N.J. -- Charges were dismissed Monday against a 69-year-old nun who had been accused of threatening to knock out the teeth of a student she was disciplining for leaving class without pernission.Louis Faccone, whose 11-year-old son was sent to see Sister Catherine Iacouzze, the assistant principal and disciplinarian at St. Cecelia School, withdrew the harassment charge he had filed against the nun in munincipal court.The Diocese of Metuchen fired Iacouzze in December."Being a woman of faith, I firmly believed that in the end, truth would triumph over treachey," she said after the hearing had concluded, declining further comment.'snip'"The phrasing...

WHEN Chloe Riley, 14, arrived home from school to find her mother had walked out and left her to fend for herself, she set out to do just that. For a fortnight she carried on as normal, keeping up her schoolwork and telling no one that her mother, Stephanie, an IT teacher, had disappeared. But when she returned home to find the locks changed, she had to accept that she had been abandoned. Her mother had cancelled the tenancy on the council house they had shared in the Wirral and moved in with her lover. For two months the girl...

The Immaculate Heart of Mary sisters of Michigan have donated $200 to a pro-abortion-rights political action committee that works to get like-minded women elected to office. The donation to Emily's List, says the nuns' vice president, was simply meant to help women in the political process. "We weren't making a political statement in terms" of abortion, Sister Mary Katherine Hamilton told the Detroit Free Press. The Roman Catholic Church is staunchly opposed to abortion and leaders have called for the censure of Catholic politicians who support the procedure. The donation, made in August 2003, may get the sisters in hot...

ROME (AP) — Italian police are trying to learn if a document-forging operation in Turin served as a logistical base for al-Qaida, authorities said Monday. The document center, an apartment in a Turin neighborhood populated by many illegal immigrants, was raided in December, said Luciano Nigro, a Turin police precinct chief, and investigation into its operations have been going on since. On Monday, La Stampa, a Turin daily, reported that police believe the place furnished documents for recruits for al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. ``I don't have proof,'' Nigro told The Associated Press, but ``we are investigating.'' Nigro said...

FIVE adult sisters who have spent their lives longing to “correct” their sexual identities are having operations to become men in Saudi Arabia. But the doctor carrying out the surgery insisted he was not performing sex-change operations, which are forbidden in the Islamic kingdom. “It’s a sex correction, not a sex change,” Yasser Jamal told The Times. “They were born with the appearance of females but their chromosomes are male and their gonads are male. Just their external organs showed as female.” Their condition was known as “male pseudo hermaphrodite”, he said. The term refers to someone born with male...

The secret language of Chinese women Tongue devised by 'sworn sisters' came down through centuries Edward Cody, Washington Post Sunday, February 29, 2004 Pumei Village, Hunan Province, C -- Nowadays, it would be called empowering women. But back then, centuries ago, it was just a way for the sworn sisters of this rugged and tradition-laden Chinese countryside to share their hopes, their joys and their many sorrows. Only men learned to read and write Chinese, and bound feet and social strictures confined women to their husband's homes. So somehow -- scholars are unsure how, or exactly when -- the women...