In return, they will be allowed to stay and be provided with medical care and spiritual support from a priest.
I didn’t realise Jesus taught “provide care and shelter, but only under arbitrary oppressive conditions”.
Fucking organised religion showing its tendency toward corruption as usual.
As an atheist, I still don’t give a flying fuck
Yeah, fuck those poor old women, they’re religious…
Idk, regardless of my thoughts on religion and organised religion especially, I can see that these people are human. They seem to be oppressed and haven’t done anything to deserve that. We should be able to feel sympathy for them, and appreciate that their story being shared is the attention they need to have extra protection at the very least.
They’re not really being repressed though. Keep in mind, as nuns, they were technically employed by the church.
The church was (and still is,) faced with several problems- the aging building (a castle built in 1877), dwindling numbers of nuns (which means not enough people to care for the grounds or provide the kind of work that allows the nuns as a whole to do whatever kind of work they’re doing (a school, in this case.)
From the article, the church closed the nunnery down, and offered the three existing nuns the right to live there as long as their health was still good.
That declined, so they moved them to a care home.
The nuns didn’t like that so they ran away (sister act vibes, ngl.) and got some previous students to help and broke back in. Then, they began a social media campaign to pressure the church to let it go.
The church caved and said “fine”- they’re now taking the much more expensive option of live-in help, but on the condition they knock off the campaign that they feel makes them look bad.
It doesn’t seem terribly unreasonable, except in the whole “your employer controls your entire life”, but that was something that they more or less agreed to when they became nuns.
The reality seems like, maybe the church doesn’t care so much about dwindling numbers of nuns (and monks,) since this is actually a wonderful recruitment campaign… or could be. If Provost DipShit didn’t have a stick up his but.
