Posted on 08/27/2016 5:09:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man has been arrested in the stabbing deaths of two nuns whose bodies were found in their home in rural Mississippi, authorities said.
Margaret Held and Paula Merrill, both nurse practitioners, failed to show up for work Thursday at a clinic in Lexington, where they served one of the state’s poorest counties.
Authorities believe the killer took the victims’ car, a blue Toyota Corolla, which was later found on an abandoned road less than a mile from their home. But nothing was taken from the house, according to a law enforcement official who has been briefed on the investigation.
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Where’s the media outrage with this horrific crime..remember the IMAM in New York who was shocked, his fellow Muslims went on TV blaming Donald Trump..not a peep about this except on Fox News this morning..just calling it a “Random act of violence”
Will obama have a press conference and call it a hate crime?
is he a muslim?
Nun lives matters.
Those aren’t nuns, they are sisters.
Nuns wear habits and take vow of chastity, poverty and obedience.
Despicable and cowardly punk!
Obama and Hillary are to blame for this by creating a climate of hate.
A blind guess for motive ... drugs, probably thought as nurse practitioners that they had drugs (which they don’t).
Really bad karma for Rodney.
oh gee its a black guy.
Kinda thought so - and thin I scrolled down and there ya go...
Nuns wear habits and take vow of chastity, poverty and obedience.
From another source:
The two nuns [sic] provided almost all the care at the clinic and cultivated relationships with drug company representatives, who often left extra free samples, according to clinic manager Lisa Dew.“I think their absence is going to be felt for a long, long time. Holmes County, it’s one of the poorest in the state,” Dew said. “There’s a lot of people here who depended on them for their care and their medicines. It’s going to be rough.”
Authorities didn’t release a motive and it wasn’t clear if the nuns’ religious work had anything to do with the slayings.
Police Chief John Haynes said officers were canvassing the area and trying to look at video from surveillance cameras in town to see if they spot anything unusual.
The Catholic community in Mississippi is relatively small. Of nearly 3 million people, the diocese said there are about 108,000 Catholics.
Held had been a member of the School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee for 49 years “and lived her ministry caring for and healing the poor,” a statement from the order said.
Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki said whoever killed Held “robbed not only the School Sisters of St. Francis, but also the entire Church of a woman whose life was spent in service.”
Merrill had worked in Mississippi for more than 30 years, according to the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky. She was from Massachusetts and joined the order in 1979.
Two years later, she moved south and found her calling in the Mississippi Delta community, according to a 2010 article in The Journey, a publication by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.
Merrill saw children and adults, and helped in other ways.
“We do more social work than medicine sometimes,” Merrill told The Journey. “Sometimes patients are looking for a counselor.”
After Hurricane Katrina left much of the town without power for weeks in 2005, the sisters allowed people to come to their house to cook because they had a gas stove, neighbor Patricia Wyatt-Weatherly said.
They were skilled in stretching resources, and routinely produced amazing dishes out of what seemed like a very small garden at their home, said Sam Sample, lay leader of St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lexington, where the sisters were members. The small congregation called off its weekly Bible study and meal Thursday night.
“They would do anything for anybody. Folks in Holmes County don’t realize the impact it will have without them being here,” Sample said.
Execute this POS...NOW !!!
Sudden Jahadie Syndrome?
Another 0bama family member; a scholar, no doubt!
This was a routine black on white random act of violence so it will receive little press exposure and no notice from the White Hut.
This was a routine black on white random act of violence so it will receive little press exposure and no notice from the White Hut.
Well, one was a decades long member of the School Sisters of St. Francis, and the other was a decades long member of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky.
So clearly, they were members of Sister organizations.
The official Catholic difference is:
A Catholic nun is a woman who lives as a contemplative life in a monastery which is usually cloistered (or enclosed) or semi-cloistered. Her ministry and prayer life is centered within and around the monastery for the good of the world. She professes the perpetual solemn vows living a life according to the evangelical counsels of poverty, celibacy, and obedience.
A Catholic sister is a woman who lives, ministers, and prays within the world. A sister’s life is often called “active” or “apostolic” because she is engaged in the works of mercy and other ministries that take the Gospel to others where they are. She professes perpetual simple vows living a life according to the evangelical counsels of poverty, celibacy, and obedience.
Whatever, this animal killed them both.
Why the silence....why the crickets? From Obama, Hillary, and others who are foisting the “Black Lives Matter” Mantra on us, genning up racial hatred?
Barack Obama and his cohorts have done more to hurt the cause of race relations in this nation and set itt back 30 years, than any individual or small groups of White Supremacists that may still be found here and there. Most of them have gone completely t ground.
Yet Obama...and Hillary, and the Sharptons and Jackosns of this world are intentionally telling lies and striving to cause race hatred. All for their political and personal power agendas.
But I believe a lot of our black brothers and sisters are waking up to it.
These dems and the establishment Rinos have pushed trillions of dollars at them in an attempt to ensnare them in the “projects” and yet their life, their livelihood, their families, and their personal self worth have been destroyed in the process.
...and that has been the plan all alng. Get them dependent on them, and then snag them with the lie that they must vote for those liars, scalawags and scheisters if they want to keep getting “helped.”
Help like what they offer is a satanic lie meant to ensnare them and Trump is finally one at the top of the tcket who is calling t for what it is.
He was planning to go to medical school, no doubt.
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