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To: Gamecock
[ex-nun's true story]

Since she never took her temporary let alone final vows she never became a nun so your comment is both wrong and inappropriate. I'll bet that that's a fact that Seinfeld has never covered. Too bad she bailed out so early in the process but the system worked as it is designed to.

However, when she left I wish she would have taken people like Chittister, Prejean, Gebara, Bujak, Dwyer, Kopin, Byrne, Ferder, Johnson, Kane, Coston, Hobday, Mananzan, Velasco, Schäfer, Gramick and a host of others with her.

9 posted on 03/27/2008 11:28:52 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: A.A. Cunningham
As she stated in this letter, she used the term "nun" in the broad sense of the term.

As far as you wishing she had taken others with her...why should that be her burden or duty?

If these whom you list are so bad, why wish them upon others? Out of bitterness towards her? Is that it?
For all we know, she may wish to avoid them or whatever their ideas are, as much as you seemingly do. If that were the case, then you and she would have things in common, other than joint recognition of the basic tenets of Christianity?

13 posted on 03/27/2008 11:47:17 AM PDT by BlueDragon (here's the thing; do recognize the bell of truth when you here it ring, c'mon and sing it children)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
Since she never took her temporary let alone final vows

Yeah, I was wondering where she found a "conservative" order in which novices don't take simple vows (though it's unclear that she knows the difference between postulants and novices) . . . oh, well, any stick is good enough . . .

15 posted on 03/27/2008 11:55:44 AM PDT by maryz
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To: A.A. Cunningham; Gamecock
"Since she never took her temporary let alone final vows she never became a nun so your comment is both wrong and inappropriate..."

I agree she used a technical explanation to explain how she could call herself a Nun. However, there seems to be no clear cut "rule" in the Catholic Church of who is or is not a Nun notwithstanding your personal understanding.

I suggest you find one simple "official" definition of Nun and post it.

You could read the following for some sort of definition though I suspect you'll have no more of a clear cut understanding than you do at this moment:

Catholic Encyclopedia - Nun

45 posted on 03/27/2008 2:55:46 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

She lived her life as a nun. Does saying the words only make it so?


235 posted on 03/30/2008 10:54:49 AM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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