Roman Catholic nuns in Poland who mounted an occupation of their convent in a protest against the appointment of a new mother superior are refusing to leave the building, despite being expelled from their order by the Vatican – writes Jonathan Luxmoore for Ecumenical News International.
The dispute erupted in August 2005 at the Kazimierz mother-house of the Sisters of the Family of Bethany, when the superior, Mother Jadwiga Ligocka, was dismissed by a Vatican delegate but she occupied the convent with other nuns.
"Let us pray for these lacerated, lost and highly strung sisters," Archbishop Jozef Zycinski of Lublin told Poland’s Catholic information agency KAI on 6 December 2006. "There are no private religious orders in the Catholic Church where everyone can set their own rules."
Under a decree from the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life, dated 28 October, the nuns were expelled from the order, which was founded in 1930 and has about 100 members.
Somehow I don’t think "Let us pray for these lacerated, lost and highly strung sisters," came across very well in translation from Polish.
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On the contrary, I thought that translation came through loud and clear. Obviously lost, lacerated as in they cut themselves off from the faith and they do seem a bit high strung. Or perhaps he meant they should be strung highly
Wounded might be the better word in English than lacerated, as would tense for high-strung.
I was in Kaziemierz during the days of Solidarity, it seemed such a peaceful quaint little town then. . .
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