“Jack,
get me more Drop Dead Coffee. I
need to finish this article. Damn,
I wish there was something juicier.”
Frank
was frustrated. I could tell he
just thought there were too many unanswered questions to the story.
“Jack,
read back my last version.”
Here
is what Frank had me read back.
Nuns
Perform Mass Resignation
by
Frank Huntington
Sixteen
nuns in the small backwater Convento
de Santa Clara in
the town of the same name in Spain have suddenly all quit the Catholic
Church. Each has renounced her
faith in God including the Mother Superior. It all happened on November 15 in the
early morning hours when the nuns were supposed to go to morning prayer. The nuns quickly realized that each and
every one of them did not feel like praying to her God above. Soon the spirit of freedom from religion
brought out a revolutionary fervor and the nuns went on a French Revolution
style rampage and smashed, burned, and defaced all the religious symbols in the
convent and the church.
The
sisters tried to spread their non-religious revolution to the townspeople and
were quickly rebuked by these traditionally minded Catholics. It was public pressure that resulted in
the Church and local politicians to have the sisters bodily removed from the
convent.
They
sought refuge in a rented villa outside of the town. With money from illegally selling gold
and silver objects from the church they live as a sort of atheist commune. According to both Monsignor Angelo
Pietro and one of the sisters this reporter interviewed, they are fearful of the
future and drawing emotional support from one another.
What
is fascinating about these new atheist feminists is that their conversion is
strictly emotional. It is not
because one of them infiltrated the convent with contraband books by Dawkins,
Hitchens, or Ingersol. They are
ignorant of the rich atheist tradition in disproving the claims of
religion.
This
lack of philosophical foundation has led the former sisters to feel an
existential emptiness. This is
especially evident in the suicide on December 7 of the former Mother
Superior. According to Monsignor
Angelo Pietro, a spokesman for the Catholic Church, it is like the sisters were
stricken with “religious amnesia.”
The Monsignor is in charge of trying to clean up the mess that the
sisters left the convent and the church in. He says the Church will reopen the
Convent, but has no idea when that will happen.
No decisions have been made by
the Church on pursuing civil charges against the former sisters for the damage
and thefts of the five hundred year old buildings.
“That is as far as you have
gotten, Frank.”
“Thanks Jack. I think I have got the gist of it
done. Can you put in more quotes by
the Monsignor for me and come up with an ending for me? Read back what you come up with.
“Okay, Sir. The next paragraph reads, “Former nun Maria Lopez who was originally from . . . “
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