The Fightin' Nuns of Kazimierz Dolny

Rumple Foreskin

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Rebellious ex-nuns evicted in Poland
By MARCIN ZOLTOWSKI, Associated Press Writer


Court officials backed by 150 police pushed their way into a convent in eastern Poland on Wednesday to evict about 65 rebellious ex-nuns and a monk who have occupied the complex illegally for two years.

The women had taken over the building in a rebellion against the Vatican, which had ordered the replacement of their mother superior, Jadwiga Ligocka.

"They were disobedient," said Mieczyslaw Puzewicz, a spokesman for the Lublin diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. "They didn't recognize the authority of the mother superior."

After a locksmith forced open the gate to the walled convent in the eastern Polish town of Kazimierz Dolny, police in riot gear pushed forward, encountering an onslaught of verbal aggression from some of the ex-nuns from the Sisters of Bethany order, police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski said.

"They were swearing at policemen," Sokolowski told The Associated Press from outside the complex. Others, however, were cooperating with police who were trying to remove them, he said.

Police also found a woman with an 8-month-old baby whom they took to a hospital. Sokolowski said the mother of the child appeared to be a relative of one of the holed-up ex-nuns.

Reporters at the site were not allowed into the convent, but TVN25 ran video taken by police that showed them negotiating with nuns in black habits, trying to convince them to leave the nunnery.

The church has refused to give many details about the rebellion two years ago, but Polish news media have reported that Mother Jadwiga was a charismatic figure who had had religious visions, and was attempting to transform the convent into a contemplative order.

The Lublin diocese hinted at that in a statement on its Web site, which says that "Mother Jadwiga's private revelations and the fact that she made it a guideline to stick by them caused unease to the Congregation."

Puzewicz, who was at the convent site, said the ex-nuns were reacting to the eviction attempt with verbal aggression and by chanting religious songs, and said that they were acting "as if they are being manipulated." He did not say who he thought was manipulating them.

In 2006, the Vatican formally expelled the nuns from the Bethany order, but the women refused to leave the building, cutting themselves off from the outside world. A former Franciscan friar lived with them.

The church eventually sought legal action to remove them, and a court in nearby Pulawy ordered the eviction — a step they had previously resisted. The convent's electricity was cut off earlier this year, but local residents sympathized with the ex-nuns' plight and secretly funneled them food in the night.
 
This is a very interesting story, Rumple! Thank you for bringing it here.


Um... do you search the net for "swearing nuns"? ;)
 
cantdog said:
This is a very interesting story, Rumple! Thank you for bringing it here.

Um... do you search the net for "swearing nuns"? ;)
You think I'd invest that much effort for a Lit post? No, it was one of the headline articles on Yahoo News. Just seemed too good to pass up.

Rumple Foreskin :cool:
 
"The women had taken over the building in a rebellion against the Vatican, which had ordered the replacement of their mother superior, Jadwiga Ligocka."

I suspect that the real reason is far darker than anyone wants to admit. The Vatican sacked the mother superior because 'Jadwiga Ligocka' was too difficult to spell and official correspondence was hampered. If so, "SHAME!"
 
I'm just concerned about this mysterious, anonymous monk, Right Reverend. Can you confirm that this anarchic bunch of swinging sisters weren't under the control of a guy in a brown terrycloth robe with a hood and a Texas accent .

Does that thing about 72 virgins being the reward apply here?
 
elfin_odalisque said:
I'm just concerned about this mysterious, anonymous monk, Right Reverend. Can you confirm that this anarchic bunch of swinging sisters weren't under the control of a guy in a brown terrycloth robe with a hood and a Texas accent ?
I suspect that the monk was actually a decoy. It was Mother Jadwiga who had the Texas accent...and probably a small beard :devil:
 
I read about this one today...nuts. Can't have someone incharge with religious visions though.
 
Jagged said:
I read about this one today...nuts. Can't have someone incharge with religious visions though.
May I join you in rolling my eyes on that one :rolleyes: When will they ever see the irony?
 
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