The woman in the background in white is dressed very much like one of my favorite teachers - Sister Mary Martin DePorres, a Dominican nun who in the early 50's took the name of Blessed Martin DePorres . The mixed race child of a Spanish Knight and a negro free woman, he was at first denied, then abandoned by his father, growing up as the poverty-stricken illegitimate mixed-race child of a single mother. Sister Mary Martin, whose face and hands were the only parts of her body seen in public, was a progressive inspired to take the name of Martin who became a Dominican Lay Brother and was eventually canonized.
But now the French, who ban the burka, see those who dress like nuns as expressing one Islamist vice or another. Over at Religiousleftlaw.com Patrick O'Donnell has an interesting introduction to the debate on whether bans on the veil violate the international law of human rights.
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