| Those Dominican religious who vandalized some equipment at a missile base have been convicted; their sentence is jail time and restitution. But they’ll get even: if the US doesn’t do away with its nuclear weapons, they’ll cow the government into submission with those fierce expressions. |  |
| They only dress Puritan when on scowling duty. Here’s their usual habit: |  |
Here they are, engaging the culture with the riches of the Catholic intellectual tradition:
they spilled containers of their own blood into shapes of crosses on the tracks and on the wall of the missile silo.
“I’ve been tested. I don’t have AIDS,” Gilbert told the court. “We brought the blood in baby bottles. ”
Then, with the bloody crosses drying in the autumn sun, the nuns sang a song about the sacred Earth and chanted, “Oh God, teach us how to be peacemakers in a hostile world.”
After about 40 minutes of this, several soldiers driving Humvees crashed through the fence and, with their weapons drawn, surrounded the gray-haired women and handcuffed them.
This is irresponsible. How long will the US military go on tolerating stupid peace songs? I’d have cuffed ’em after 5 minutes.
Update: Occasionally they do wear something more conventional. Fr. Sibley spotted them in their decontamination suits.
I do find Archbishop Chaput’s comments naive in that someone could easily have gotten hurt as a result of this stunt.
This is a military installation. Trespassing is serious business. Under some circumstances, people may have orders to shoot first and ask questions later.
I too was surprised at Abp. Chaput’s statement. He’s normally pretty sensible – although it wasn’t as bad as what he said about Scalia and the death penalty, which was truly ridiculous.
St Dominic and St Catherine would not be happy with these so-called “Dominicans,” I think. St Vincent Ferrer, even less so. How long, O Lord?
Actually – the odd thing that struck me was the statement that the sister had been tested for HIV and is clean. If you’re consecrated to Christ, I assume you’re not having casual sex or sharing drug needles – why would you need to be tested? I know that transfusion is also a means of getting HIV, but the statement strikes me as odd.
They could not have gotten their own blood without mutilating themselves, forbidden as per CCC 2297.