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‘Sister of No Mercy’
A French nun tackled an eco-protester on the construction site of a new Catholic religious center in Saint-Pierre-de-Colombier, France. From Fox News:
On Saturday, members of the eco-group Les Amis de la Bourges, which is translated to friends of the village, attempted to protest the building of a new religious complex in Saint-Pierre-de-Colombier. The construction was surrounded by a group of nuns from the Missionary Family of Notre-Dame forming a human chain around the area to stop the activists.
A spokesman for the eco-group Friends of The Village complained, or perhaps whined, that he expected more from the nuns that formed a human chain to prevent the interruption of construction and the smashing of piping for the new center.
“I didn’t expect that,” co-president of the association for the future of the Bourges valley Sylvain Hérenguel told public broadcast channel France 3. “I expected the nuns to be a little reasonable for the public order. The problem is that the religious people decided to resort to violence. I was attacked three times by five people, who snatched me, who wanted to throw me out there. They decided to protect the site with their actions and their bodies.”
Apparently, there is a plant in the area that, according to the ‘Friends,’ needs protection. Well, it appears that one nun decided to plant something, or someone herself.
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Published in Religion and Philosophy
Nun: 1, Nut: 0.
Now that was heart-warming.
[ Recalls scene in The Blues Brothers in which a nun swats Jake and Elwood with a ruler. ]
She could have gone straight for the legs, but she didn’t need to.
“I didn’t expect that,” co-president of the association for the future of the Bourges valley Sylvain Hérenguel told public broadcast channel France 3. “I expected the nuns to be a little reasonable for the public order.”
Or “I expected to be able to disrupt the public order and no one would get in my way.”
A classic
In regard to the Blues Brothers scene I attended a Catholic elementary school and we were never hit with a ruler. I do remember an incident in 3rd grade when one of boys decided to throw a tantrum. He lay on the floor kicking and screaming. The nun teaching the class left the room for a moment and returned with a bucket of water.
She emptied the bucket, the tantrum stopped, and he was sent to the office soaking wet. His mother was called and asked to bring another uniform to school. He was sent back to class in a dry uniform.
The lesson learned was tantrums would not be tolerated and you would not be rewarded with a day off from school for bad behavior.
Probably a better solution than school authorities recommending psychotropic medication.
Tackling sin is in their wheelhouse.
The secular have inferred RoE for the religious that do not conform to reality.
Yo the nun: you go girl!!
Sister Smackdown
Being a nun isn’t for wimps. When a local Bishop threatened to try to take over EWTN in its early days, Mother Angelica told him she would burn it down first. And no one looked more like a kindly old grandma than Mother Angelica.
Not a huge fan of Meryl Streep, but she carries off the Catholic school nun bit to a tee here (at 0:37):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSc0srYx9-4
Takeaway: Don’t mess with sister!
I am getting flashbacks to my elementary school days. We had Nuns like that-they were no-nonsense.