Posted on 05/06/2007 8:58:28 PM PDT by BGHater
It's a David versus Goliath battle heating up in the Hill Country — a group of nuns from Boerne is taking a stand against Wal-Mart.
The corporate giant reportedly labeled the nuns a security threat after they raised questions about Wal-Mart's business practices.
Sister Susan Mika is part of the Benedectine Sisters, which is part of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. The center has been questioning Wal-Mart's business practices for years.
"We've been raising questions with them for about 17 years, so it's not like they don't know it," Sister Mika said.
Now, the sisters find themselves on Wal-Mart's security threat list. Sister Mika said the group has been wrongly labeled.
"In no way have we ever been a threat to the company in that sense. We might be a threat in the kind of question that we're asking, but not a security threat," Sister Mika said.
The sisters have raised questions on wages, human rights, health care and the pay disparity between CEOs and workers. They believe that's why Wal-Mart has launched a surveillance operation on the small church group.
"We wanted to find out more about what was actually happening, and did they do any surveillance on us, either personally or as a community, and to let us know what that would be, and to apologize to us," Sister Mika said.
Calls from KENS 5 to a Wal-Mart spokesperson went unreturned.
The nuns say they want an apology and will continue to raise concerns and issues until someone launches an investigation into thousands of allegations against Wal-Mart.
I am extemely jealous that I did not think of that name first, for my funny names list.
LOL! You're not too far off. I have seen the Boerne Benedictines, and they were greatly influenced by the hip 60's. I thought the only thing they still did was run a day care.
I'm sure it'd make them happier greeters, though. LOL!
So how are they “labeled a security threat”? What does that mean, anyway? I’d label them a handful of irrelevant nuts.
From the Boerne Nuns website:
. . And so Omega stands as a school for God’s service. As Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB, reminds us,the spiritual life takes discipline.
When I see nuns quoting Joan Chittister, I throw Holy Water on myself, and run like heck to get away from them. Talk about the dark side.
Sister Rosetta Stone is from an old Cheech and Chong routine. I understand it sounds even funnier if you’re stoned, but I wouldn’t know since I never used illicit substances.
As a Catholic, I heartily agree!
No, but have you ever gotten thrown over the knee of a nun with your head deep in the pitch-black folds of a habit and spanked? Happened to me. First grade. Sr. Mary Evangeline. Nearly scarred me for life! LOLOL!!
No denomination is without its freakshow fringe, is it?
Think of terrorists in Iraq dressed in American uniforms. They may look like Americans, but are not.
Similarly, we have been in close communion with our Bendictine order friends in France for many years, real Benedictines as down through the centuries, a traditional order, and they are the diametric opposite of these pretenders. Nun of them could possibly imagine such folly.
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