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  • Known as _homo superiors_, or "Superiors" for short, they are the result of a secret three-year program aimed at developing ...

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Or it is a nunnery, in which young girls are held against their will and fed upon the scraps from their sisters 'plates to teach them humility, and taught to lie before the altar, prostrate in the form of a cross, while their "Superiors" walk upon their bodies to impress the religious virtues.

    The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Or it is a nunnery, in which young girls are held against their will and fed upon the scraps from their sisters 'plates to teach them humility, and taught to lie before the altar, prostrate in the form of a cross, while their "Superiors" walk upon their bodies to impress the religious virtues.

    The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918

  • Libby Lawyers Hint He Leaked Plame on Orders of 'Superiors'

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Libby Lawyers Hint He Leaked Plame on Orders of 'Superiors' 2006

  • OpEdNews - Quicklink: Libby Lawyers Hint He Leaked Plame on Orders of 'Superiors'

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Libby Lawyers Hint He Leaked Plame on Orders of 'Superiors' 2006

  • Addressing the 2009 assembly of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men that the church should not be "a prisoner of sex scandals," nor should it be "a prisoner of the crisis of religious life," adding that he was "deeply convinced that the values and witness of religious life are extremely important for the renewal of the church."

    Joseph K. Grieboski: God's Diplomat Called Home Joseph K. Grieboski 2011

  • Addressing the 2009 assembly of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men that the church should not be "a prisoner of sex scandals," nor should it be "a prisoner of the crisis of religious life," adding that he was "deeply convinced that the values and witness of religious life are extremely important for the renewal of the church."

    Joseph K. Grieboski: God's Diplomat Called Home Joseph K. Grieboski 2011

  • In contrast, the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious site is filled with pics of women religious in habits.

    Paranoia. Identity Politics. Rebellion. Us vs. Them. 2009

  • The LCWR was quite unhappy about approval of the new Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, and complained to the Vatican that approving the alternate conference was “contrary to a primary function of leadership — to promote unity and understanding.”

    Paranoia. Identity Politics. Rebellion. Us vs. Them. 2009

  • "Superiors back it up, it's a morale booster over here."

    Sgt. 'Gaga' explains his spoof 2010

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