It is more Christian, I think, than the shrieky attempts by his rivals to push their beliefs on everyone else through the long arm of the law.

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Adrianne Pieczonka brought warmth to the role of Madame Lidoine, the Second Prioress, though both she and Irina Mishura, as the tough Mother Marie, tended to sound shrieky when loud.

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