Posted on 08/25/2016 11:01:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Two Catholic nuns were found dead inside their Mississippi home after they didn’t show up to work Thursday, according to police.
Both women had stab wounds, the Durant police chief told WJTV.
The nuns have been identified as Sister Paula Merrill and Sister Margaret Held.
Merrill worked with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky and Held with the School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee.
“These were the two sweetest sisters you could imagine,” Father Greg Plata told the Clarion-Ledger. “It’s so senseless.”
Authorities believe the women may have been victims of a robbery, according to the paper.
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth released the following statement:
“With great sadness we announce that this afternoon, we were informed that Paula Merrill, SCN, was found dead at her home in Durant, Mississippi. Police found both her and Margaret Held, SSSF, dead this morning after being called by personnel at the medical clinic where they ministered. The two had not come into the clinic this morning.
We have very little information at this time. There is an investigation underway. We have spoken with the parish priest, the chief of police, and the coroner’s office to confirm the deaths of Sisters Paula and Margaret.
As a community we have come together in prayer. SCN President Susan Gatz asks that all, “pray in gratitude for the precious lives of Sisters Paula and Margaret … they served the poor so well. Because we are gospel women, please also pray for the perpetrators.”
Please keep the families and religious communities of Sisters Paula and Margaret in your prayers, as well as those who work at the medical clinic where the Sisters were in ministry and the clinic’s many clients, and those involved in the investigation. Please also keep the community of Durant in prayer as well.
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth are an international Congregation in a multicultural world. Impelled by the love of Christ, in the tradition of Vincent de Paul and the pioneer spirit of Catherine Spalding, Sisters and Associates are committed to work for justice in solidarity with oppressed peoples, especially the economically poor and women, and to care for the earth. They risk their lives and resources, both personally and corporately, as they engage in diverse ministries in carrying out this mission.”
Murder a nun - when you absolutely, positively cannot be bothered to wait in line to get into hell.
Prayers.
I have the utmost admiration for ladies like that as most of the girls I knew growing up in Detroit went to Catholic schools.
Anyone wager a guess ?
Durant is country north central Miss near I-55 between Loess Bluffs of the Delta and the Black Belt quasi prairie to the east
I’m guessing Obama children robbing
Holmes County, a cesspool of drugs and crime. Scene of many horrible crimes.
I really no longer recognize this country or culture....it’s as alien to me as a circus freak show. Another sad story in an endless line of assorted butchery & debauchery that parades it self as another normal day in the USA. I don’t think anyone under 40 understands that this country was once a very different place from what it is today. RIP to those nuns....
I’m going to venture a guess here but I’d start looking into people she helped recently and see if anyone knows whether she kept a stash of money in her apartment anywhere and whether that info was public knowledge or not...
I was think that very thing; either Amish domestic or Amish foreign...
They were either judged to have too much unfair advantage, or too little Islamic advantage.
We have two groups inside the U. S. now making determinations on who deserves to live or not.
“Authorities believe the women may have been victims of a robbery, according to the paper.”
I’d say the poor defenceless women have been the victims of a murder.
But what do I know.
This is not a venial sin nor a mortal sin. This is a cardinal sin. St. Peter won’t even talk to you at the Gate. You go directly to hell.
May the Sisters find peace.
Because we are gospel women, please also pray for the perpetrators.”
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That would be hard to do.
Are there any Mosques in the area?
Pray AMerica is waking
Prayers up for the sisters and that the murderer(s) repent and ask God to forgive this terrible crime.
Evil is rampant. Look up!
Maybe, but heavy meth country too.
I’ll take your gangbangers and raise you a white trash family in a ‘76 Chevelle.
It will most likely be a person these nuns have helped out.
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