Nun Saved From Death

Hi neildc, That is very sad! I never thought there are congregations as authoritative as that... I have a close friend, my colleague who decided to enter the congregation last August! She was pretty and very young, 24 years old! So, before August, we were really asking her is she is ready the life inside since it is totally different. No freedom to visit her family, she can't call anytime also, they are given like 1 hour every month to talk over the phone and a lot of rules..But, she was very decided.. In her first month, she was adjusting very very much! But, she said their superior told them that if anyone will get sick inside and the reason is because they can't handle the life there, they will be advised to back out and live the normal life which is very good! Anyway, sorry to bore you! I hope this superior will be open-minded and will leave according to what they are preaching, and that is to have a good heart to everyone!

Hi Neil, I was brought up a catholic and I have met many nuns in my time and I still say it is against nature and that goes for the priests to locked away from from everything and think is disgusting to the church not to release that nun and she wanted to take her life.Is it a prison or the convents a choice? I get very angry with the rules. Tamara

Really weird. I know that a nun is only a human being and she can also commit mistakes, but this situation is not acceptable. I have a second degree cousin whose into monastery(I didn't if that's what they called it), she was allowed to go outside the monastery once or twice in her nun's lifetime. As far I a know, she came home at the time of her mother's burial. And I don't know when will she came back. At least, giving her a little vacation and time would make her think otherwise.

Well those are for Catholics and I am happy I am not one. I believe I can serve the Lord and live and constantly pray and meditate in his words even without going inside a monastery. Why sacrifice for an undertaking that is not even encouraged by the word of God. The Bible created women first and foremost to become a helpmeet for her husband and then become a mother. Being a nun or sister, whatever... deprives a women of this wonderful opportunity to function as what God created her for. I know many faithful married Christians who have lots of children but can also serve the Lord faithfully. So, in my own opinion, if someone wants to become a Nun then is should be up to her but if she wants to go out of the vocation, she should be deprived because that is her right.

Sometimes I have to wonder if the catholic archdiocese is allowed to get away with way too much, if the same thing that was done to this nun was to be forced on a person by a non-denominational faith the people would be considered evil for doing it, yet these mightier than though people feel that they have the right to do it just because they are with a so called recognized religion, I think it is time for these people to come out of the dark ages and just be happy that there are still people who want anything at all to do with spreading the word of God and stop trying to dictate what these people have to do in order to be allowed to do so. Priests in my opinion not being able to marry and have children is actually an abomination that should be ended as well.

I would say its not her time yet.I think she has given a chance to live more to serve the people and the church.Perhaps by now she had already thought of why she still alive.Perhaps it would mean her mission in life is not through yet.

What a tragic story, about a nun who tried to take her own life by taking muriatic acid! Gosh, and that stuff smells so nasty, that the odor will practically kill a person. Something here doesn't sound quite right. I mean, I thought people of the cloth could decide for themselves if they wanted to leave their spiritual work behind them and return to "normal" life. Anyway, this was an interesting discussion, neildc. Thanks for sharing.