« Letters to the Editor | Main | Televangelist Tries to Gag Gay Lover »
Italy: It seems there's something in the water in Montevergine that leads the clergy to follow their hearts. In 2002, Father Vitaliano della Sala got the boot for attending a gay pride march in Rome. But this week Sister Pompea has run off with a monk ten years her junior.
A mystical crisis,said the mother superior,that has obliged the nun to remove herself for an indefinite period and stay with her familiars.That was the explanation for Sister Pompea disappearing from her convent in Montevergine, east of Naples in Italy.
Her absence was noticed when she failed to arrive for teaching duties at a nursery last week.
Ottopagine, the local paper, claimed:The two religious people seem to have chosen to live this urgent and overwhelming love affair without subterfuge and without secrecy ... on holiday, like two ordinary lovers.
Mother Ildegarde, mother superior of Convent di Loreto, told the Corriere della Sera paper:I spoke to Sister Pompea and I found her worn out. She is still one of us, a sister with all that entails, and waiting to give us her decision. She still wears the habit.
I particularly enjoyed the comment that Sister Pompea was worn out, but I found it rather sweet to picture her taking a romantic stroll on the beach with the monk, both still in their habits. Somehow, I don't think that's quite what Mother Ildegarde meant.
Get thee from a nunnery: Italian Sister in illicit affair—Independent, 13th September 2004.
Posted in
Hypocrisy: Naughty Vicars
at 01:06. Last modified on May 31 2007 at 10:12.
Permalink to this entry | View blog reactions
Comments
1: Posted by: Arthur D. Hlavaty | September 14, 2004 1:57 PM
What do you call it when a Catholic priest has sex with an adult woman?
Progress.
2: Posted by: Brother Bimbo del Doppio Senso | September 15, 2004 7:53 PM
You know, in our Order, we'd be concerned if our Sisters were too 'worn out' to have sex with one another!
3: Posted by: James Emerson | September 16, 2004 12:02 AM
My understanding is that it's OK for nuns and monks to date, just as long as they don't get into the habit.
Evangelism, witnessing and similar activitites go by one name here—, and is no different from spam for viagra, penis enlargement products and pornography. We do not take advertising. If you want to advertise your imaginary friend, please spend your own money on your own web space to do so. Any attempts to use the comments section for advertisements will be deleted, and the perpetrator barred, unless they are particularly stupid, in which case I reserve the right to pinch an idea from Teresa Nielsen Hayden and delete all the vowels.
This is not a contacts site. If you are looking for help regarding a particular path, I suggest The Witches' Voice, which does operate a contacts service.
Allowed HTML:
a href, b, br, p, strong, em, ol, ul, li, blockquote, q, pre. If your name has accents in it, things will work better if you use the XHTML entities for those letters. The same applies if you are using a word processor to compose your comment, then copying and pasting the text—either turn off curly quotes and avoid using em-dashes, or edit your comment after pasting to get rid of them. Garbled comments usually get deleted.