Old bags.
Elderly nuns chain themselves at protest.
I know! Sisters, you have to go through the proper channels, don’t make a spectacle of yourselves! Oh! Those silly Italians. Story here.
“Two elderly Italian nuns chained themselves to a lamp post outside the Vatican on Sunday claiming they had been wrongly expelled from their cloistered convent and wanted Pope Benedict to help them return.
The two women, Sister Albina Locantore, 73 and Teresa Izzi, 79, remained in locks and chains on the edge of St Peter’s Square for several hours, including the some 20 minutes while the pope delivered his weekly message and blessing.
The two women told reporters they had left their convent of Carmelite nuns in central Italy for several months for health reasons but when they returned the mother superior refused to let them back in the cloistered convent.
The mother superior accused them of disobedience and banished them, the nuns said.” - Source
One of the nuns held up a placard reading: “Your Holiness, we are neither prostitutes, nor violent, nor thieves, nor mentally infirm”. All rightey then.
Imagine - at their age, trying to singularize themselves!
June 9th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Drama Queens in Carmel yet!
June 9th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Now if they were men, and priests, and wanted to say a TLM, the Vatican and every Trad in the white part of the world would be jumping to their aid.
Poor dears.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:16 am
I have no idea of what that is about. They look fairly harmless and I’m trying to figure out what terrible thing they have done.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Adrienne - the photo isn’t of them, if that is what you mean.
June 9th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I love Fr. Mark’s comment!
If it gets their case heard, I’d say it was worth the drama. Hadn’t St. Therese gone before the pope to plead her case?
June 9th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
The religious in the photo (the gentleman in the hardhat excepted) are 4 Ladies of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) and 2 Poor Religious of the Mother of God. I wonder where they are today, God love them! Looks like a wartime photo in England. Roehampton maybe?
June 9th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Sorry father - I found the real image on Fr. Blake’s blog so I took my photo down - but thanks for the info.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Those poor old dears! Protesting and living on the street at their age. Italians are sooo dramatic.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:54 am
Thom’s right, on this one. There’s a double standard.
Odd for nuns to be just thrown out at that age. The Church owes them something.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Jeffrey and Thom you are right again - someone is being a bitch in that monastery.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Did they go AWOL and not tell the Superior?
Good to know they’re not prostitutes, violent, thieves or mentally infirm…what happened to “Hell no, we won’t go!”