Rebel(s) Without A…….

……Convent. A court in Poland has issued an eviction notice to a group of, believe it or not, rebel nuns. The habit-ual offenders have illegally occupied their former convent for two years, rejecting the Vatican decision to replace their mother superior. Along the way, they have also ignored their expulsion from their religious order and taken up recreational stoning of reporters trying to interview them.

The 64 nuns took over the building in 2005, rejecting the Vatican's decision to replace their mother superior, who had taken decisions she said were based on religious visions and had upset other nuns.

The nuns and their superior in the southern city of Kazimierz Dolny have also ignored their expulsion from their order, the Sisters of the Family of Bethany.

But court officials said eviction notices had been sent to the nuns last week. A Franciscan friar who has been suspended for disobedience is also staying there with them.

"We will not wait any longer," Ewa Stepowicz-Lizut, the lawyer of the convent's order, told Reuters on Monday.

The building's electricity was cut off in April, but sympathisers from the town have continued to provide food and water under cover of darkness. The nuns have on occasion thrown stones at journalists trying to speak to them.

Well, we certainly concur with their opinion of the media, but their obedience could use a little work. I see real movie potential here, though! Heck, they've already staged a live version of the Jets versus Sharks rumble in a convent in Cyprus! We have a real trend in delinquent nuns.

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  By Lars Walker, Monday, 2 July , 2007 @ 1:42 pm

  Let him who is without sin stone the first broadcast.

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