To: Petronski
Did you read the article? Here;
" Some people have asked me why I call myself a former nun when I never made vows.
According to "The Catholic Encyclopedia," if a monk or a nun has been accepted by a religious order (which I was)
and has been given a religious habit (which I wore), then he or she is a monk or a nun in the broad sense of the term.
[Note 1] So I refer to myself as a former nun."
No lies in evidence, there. Perhaps you should apologize to her?
36 posted on
03/27/2008 1:58:27 PM PDT by
BlueDragon
(here's the thing; do recognize the bell of truth when you here it ring, c'mon and sing it children)
To: BlueDragon
has been given a religious habit Nuns (even in the broad sense; properly speaking, there's a difference between nuns -- largely contemplative orders, I think -- and sisters, those in the more familiar teaching an nursing orders) don't get the habit without taking vows. Postulants don't take vows. After the six-month or so postulancy, they take simple vows (i.e., for the length of the novitiate) and actually get a habit -- "take the veil," as it were, though novices generally wear white veils instead of the black. After the novitiate, they take solemn vows -- for life. But simple vows are real vows.
39 posted on
03/27/2008 2:34:53 PM PDT by
maryz
To: BlueDragon
She’s wrong.
Anyway, do you have any theories how would I apologize to a fictional character?
41 posted on
03/27/2008 2:36:39 PM PDT by
Petronski
(Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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