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Nun who gave birth in Italy 'unaware of pregnancy'
BBC ^ | 17 January 2014

Posted on 01/17/2014 2:41:03 PM PST by Gamecock

A nun who gave birth to a baby boy in the central Italian city of Rieti, said she had no idea she was pregnant, local media report.

The 31-year-old was rushed to hospital with abdominal pains, which she thought were stomach cramps.

The young mother, who is originally from El Salvador, reportedly named her newborn Francis after the current Pope.

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1 posted on 01/17/2014 2:41:03 PM PST by Gamecock
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To: Gamecock

She’s a couple a thousand years late, no?


2 posted on 01/17/2014 2:43:05 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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I am not an expert in Roman Catholicism, but I’m pretty sure the actuvity that led to the nun being with child is not smiled upon.


3 posted on 01/17/2014 2:43:59 PM PST by Gamecock (Celebrating 20,000 posts of dubious quality.)
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To: theKid51

Surprise?


4 posted on 01/17/2014 2:44:25 PM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Mastador1

There is a joke here somewhere that I am missing.


5 posted on 01/17/2014 2:44:52 PM PST by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Mastador1

Yeah except for frogs and Komodo dragons (who birth only female clones ) you don’t see many virgin births these days.


6 posted on 01/17/2014 2:45:32 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Gamecock

This one never gets old;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Of5_u64YPw


7 posted on 01/17/2014 2:46:08 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Fai Mao

Something about playing squat tag in the asparagus patch is one.


8 posted on 01/17/2014 2:47:28 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Gamecock

I AM wondering how long she has been in the nun business.

I can’t escape the feeling that the bast part of the story hasn’t been reported on. Just sayin’.


9 posted on 01/17/2014 2:51:40 PM PST by Mad Dawg (In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
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To: Gamecock

I wonder if she will get excommunicated?


10 posted on 01/17/2014 2:52:14 PM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: castlegreyskull

It may have been immaculate.


11 posted on 01/17/2014 2:52:51 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Gamecock

geeee, wonder how that happened?


12 posted on 01/17/2014 2:55:08 PM PST by faithhopecharity (C)
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To: Gamecock

She had “no idea” she was pregnant. O K A Y, of course she doesn’t know. She just “fell pregnant” as the Brits like to say.


13 posted on 01/17/2014 2:55:20 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Mad Dawg

Poor woman. It’s possible that she is very sheltered and innocent, or she may be mentally challenged. Or both.


14 posted on 01/17/2014 2:58:20 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Gamecock
no virgin birth here...wasn't it an (medieval) R/C practice to have rich, (childless)
celibate priests; to help finance the order....but, they too are human.

15 posted on 01/17/2014 2:58:44 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
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To: faithhopecharity

geeee, wonder how that happened?

Naa, just not as convincing as Mary.


16 posted on 01/17/2014 2:58:49 PM PST by munin (MSNBC?)
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To: Vaquero

If you did see a virgin birth in a human the child would always be female, a clone of the mother.

It is theoretically possible that this has happened due to some freak occurrence - an ovum being hit by naturally occurring radiation or some such - but the child would always be a girl. It is the male that supplies the gender of the child.

It is interesting she named the baby after the Pope at least she didn’t name it Francis Junior.

All laughs aside. I am glad mother and baby are OK. Sin is sin and all sin forgivable. she is not the first nun to have a moral lapse. I’ve certainly had my share of those


17 posted on 01/17/2014 2:59:14 PM PST by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: munin

She’s a slut.


18 posted on 01/17/2014 3:00:18 PM PST by novascotianative
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To: gorush

It may have been immaculate.

Naa, just not as convincing as Mary


19 posted on 01/17/2014 3:01:30 PM PST by munin (MSNBC?)
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To: munin

yes, she’s not as convincing as Mary.......a Jewish friend says that Virgin Births only happen to Jewish women (because, he says, they don’t like sex)

:)
:)


20 posted on 01/17/2014 3:02:34 PM PST by faithhopecharity (C)
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