"Harry F. Leopold" <hleopold@coxyx.net> wrote in message
news:0001HW.BEDB1899000D917CF0284550@news.central.cox.net...

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:28:59 -0500, Steve O wrote
(in article <3hloarFhjt62U1@individual.net>):

I would like to bring to your attention the activities of a sinister
cult,
who for some time now, amongst other atrocities, have been treating
women
disgracefully for many years.
The followers of this cult, who specificallly target vulnerable women
with
the promise of eternal life, have been fully documented to engage in
the following practices:
1. Strange and sinister ceremonies, which include shaving the
participants
head, and forcing them into compulsory silence for extended periods.
2. Forcing it's participants to wear strange and medieval clothing,
and marrying them in a bizarre ceremony to the long dead leader of
their strange
cult.
3. Compulsory and enforced labour, which includes sending the
participants
to dangerous parts of the world for the furtherment of the
organisation. 4. Encouraging the participants to separate from their
own families, and discouraging contact with their parents, sisters and
brothers. 5. Enforcing the participants into celibacy, and forbidding
them to marry,
bear children, or enjoy a normal sexual and loving relationship with
any man, other than their sham marriage to the dead cult leader.

Please, let's try and put a stop to this dreadful situation and help
these
women to escape the clutches of these evil cultists.
These unfortunate women are being brainwashed and strictly controlled
by the
following organisation:

http://www.vatican.va/phome_en.htm

Please contact this organisation and register your concerns with them
now!
Let's bring an end to this insanity!

.... brought to you by courtesy of the F.T.N.N.! ("FREE THE NUNS
NOW!) Organisation.

And an interesting, and related, news article that Diane brought to my
attention this morning:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw111909834191
8B265 Priest unrepentent after crucifying of nun

June 18 2005 at 02:46PM

By Laura Chiriac

Tanacu, Romania - A Romanian Orthodox priest who ordered the
crucifixion of a
young nun because she was "possessed by the devil" and now faces murder
charges was unrepentant on Saturday as he celebrated a funeral mass for
his
alleged victim.

"God has performed a miracle for her, finally Irina is delivered from
evil,"
Father Daniel, 29, the superior of the Holy Trinity monastery in
north-eastern Romania, said before celebrating a short mass "for the
soul of
the deceased", in the presence of 13 nuns who showed no visible
emotion.

He insisted that from the religious point of view, the crucifixion of
Maricica Irina Cornici, 23, was "entirely justified", but admitted that
he faced excommunication as well as prosecution, and was seeking a
"good lawyer".

Cornici was found dead on Wednesday, gagged and chained to a cross,
after fellow nuns called an ambulance, according to police.

Mihaela Straub, spokesperson for the police in the province of Vaslui,
said
Daniel and four other nuns had claimed Cornici was possessed and should
be exorcised.

Before being crucified she had been kept shut up for several days, her
hands
and feet tied and without food or drink, he said.

Cornici had entered the monastery just three months before, after
visiting a
friend who was a nun there, police said.

As her coffin entered the church of the monastery Saturday no church
bells were sounded while nuns cast distrustful glances at the
strangers, including
two AFP reporters, present at the ceremony.

Claps of thunder from an approaching storm were sometimes the only
sounds to
break the silence.

"This storm is proof that the will of God has been done," Daniel said.

"You see it?" said the priest, gesturing at the body, lying in an
annexe and
still showing the marks of the gag. One of the nuns, Sister Martha,
added, "She can't be laid in the church because she was possesed."

Daniel has lived for the past four years in the isolated monastery
located in
the hills of one of the poorest regions of Romania, without running
water or
electricity.

"Over there, in your world, the people must know that the devil exists.
Personally I can find his work in the gestures and speech of possessed
people, because man is often weak and lets himself be easily
manipulated by
the forces of evil," said the bearded young priest.

"I don't understand why journalists are making such a fuss about this.
Exorcism is a common practise in the heart of the Romanian Orthodox
church and my methods are not at all unknown to other priests," he
said.

A 34-year-old parishioner who had come to defend Daniel and gave her
name as
Dora, said Sister Irina " had to be punished, she had an argument with
the Father during a Sunday mass and insulted him in front of the
congregation."

Sociologist Alred Bulai said that corporal punishment was still
commonly used
in certain Romanian monasteries.

"It's happening particularly in the isolated monasteries, where the
superiors
have difficulty understanding the current realities and adapting
themselves
to modern life," Bulai said.

Since the fall of the communist regime in December 1989, the Orthodox
Church,
which represents 85 percent of Romania's 22

million inhabitants, is rated in many opinion polls as the most trusted
institution in the country.

Vitalie Danciu, the superior of a nearby monastery at Golia, called the
crucifixion "inexcusable",k but a spokesperson for the Orthodox
patriarchate
in Bucharest refused to condemn it.

"I don't know what this young woman did," Bogdan Teleanu said.

- Sapa-AFP

I saw that news article too, Harry, which prompted me to submit the
original, satirical post.
I find it amazing that some parents would throw their hands up in horror
if their daughter chose to join some weird cult like the Moonies or the
Children of God for example, but there are thousands Catholic parents
who would be overjoyed if their daughter announced that she wanted to
become a nun, which in my mind, is just as equally bizarre a choice of
lifestyle, but one which we have apparently come to consider as
reasonable. Your news article stresses the point precisely.

"Harry F. Leopold" <hleopold@coxyx.net> wrote in message
news:0001HW.BEDB1899000D917CF0284550@news.central.cox.net...

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:28:59 -0500, Steve O wrote
(in article <3hloarFhjt62U1@individual.net>):

I would like to bring to your attention the activities of a sinister
cult,
who for some time now, amongst other atrocities, have been treating
women
disgracefully for many years.
The followers of this cult, who specificallly target vulnerable women
with
the promise of eternal life, have been fully documented to engage in the
following practices:
1. Strange and sinister ceremonies, which include shaving the
participants
head, and forcing them into compulsory silence for extended periods.
2. Forcing it's participants to wear strange and medieval clothing, and
marrying them in a bizarre ceremony to the long dead leader of their
strange
cult.
3. Compulsory and enforced labour, which includes sending the
participants
to dangerous parts of the world for the furtherment of the organisation.
4. Encouraging the participants to separate from their own families, and
discouraging contact with their parents, sisters and brothers.
5. Enforcing the participants into celibacy, and forbidding them to
marry,
bear children, or enjoy a normal sexual and loving relationship with any
man, other than their sham marriage to the dead cult leader.

Please, let's try and put a stop to this dreadful situation and help
these
women to escape the clutches of these evil cultists.
These unfortunate women are being brainwashed and strictly controlled by
the
following organisation:

http://www.vatican.va/phome_en.htm

Please contact this organisation and register your concerns with them
now!
Let's bring an end to this insanity!

.... brought to you by courtesy of the F.T.N.N.! ("FREE THE NUNS NOW!)
Organisation.

And an interesting, and related, news article that Diane brought to my
attention this morning:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1119098341918B26
5
Priest unrepentent after crucifying of nun

June 18 2005 at 02:46PM

By Laura Chiriac

Tanacu, Romania - A Romanian Orthodox priest who ordered the crucifixion
of a
young nun because she was "possessed by the devil" and now faces murder
charges was unrepentant on Saturday as he celebrated a funeral mass for
his
alleged victim.

"God has performed a miracle for her, finally Irina is delivered from
evil,"
Father Daniel, 29, the superior of the Holy Trinity monastery in
north-eastern Romania, said before celebrating a short mass "for the soul
of
the deceased", in the presence of 13 nuns who showed no visible emotion.

He insisted that from the religious point of view, the crucifixion of
Maricica Irina Cornici, 23, was "entirely justified", but admitted that he
faced excommunication as well as prosecution, and was seeking a "good
lawyer".

Cornici was found dead on Wednesday, gagged and chained to a cross, after
fellow nuns called an ambulance, according to police.

Mihaela Straub, spokesperson for the police in the province of Vaslui,
said
Daniel and four other nuns had claimed Cornici was possessed and should be
exorcised.

Before being crucified she had been kept shut up for several days, her
hands
and feet tied and without food or drink, he said.

Cornici had entered the monastery just three months before, after visiting
a
friend who was a nun there, police said.

As her coffin entered the church of the monastery Saturday no church bells
were sounded while nuns cast distrustful glances at the strangers,
including
two AFP reporters, present at the ceremony.

Claps of thunder from an approaching storm were sometimes the only sounds
to
break the silence.

"This storm is proof that the will of God has been done," Daniel said.

"You see it?" said the priest, gesturing at the body, lying in an annexe
and
still showing the marks of the gag. One of the nuns, Sister Martha, added,
"She can't be laid in the church because she was possesed."

Daniel has lived for the past four years in the isolated monastery located
in
the hills of one of the poorest regions of Romania, without running water
or
electricity.

"Over there, in your world, the people must know that the devil exists.
Personally I can find his work in the gestures and speech of possessed
people, because man is often weak and lets himself be easily manipulated
by
the forces of evil," said the bearded young priest.

"I don't understand why journalists are making such a fuss about this.
Exorcism is a common practise in the heart of the Romanian Orthodox church
and my methods are not at all unknown to other priests," he said.

A 34-year-old parishioner who had come to defend Daniel and gave her name
as
Dora, said Sister Irina " had to be punished, she had an argument with the
Father during a Sunday mass and insulted him in front of the
congregation."

Sociologist Alred Bulai said that corporal punishment was still commonly
used
in certain Romanian monasteries.

"It's happening particularly in the isolated monasteries, where the
superiors
have difficulty understanding the current realities and adapting
themselves
to modern life," Bulai said.

Since the fall of the communist regime in December 1989, the Orthodox
Church,
which represents 85 percent of Romania's 22

million inhabitants, is rated in many opinion polls as the most trusted
institution in the country.

Vitalie Danciu, the superior of a nearby monastery at Golia, called the
crucifixion "inexcusable",k but a spokesperson for the Orthodox
patriarchate
in Bucharest refused to condemn it.

"I don't know what this young woman did," Bogdan Teleanu said.

- Sapa-AFP

I saw that news article too, Harry, which prompted me to submit the
original, satirical post.

I find it amazing that some parents would throw their hands up in horror if
their daughter chose to join some weird cult like the Moonies or the
Children of God for example, but there are thousands Catholic parents who
would be overjoyed if their daughter announced that she wanted to become a
nun, which in my mind, is just as equally bizarre a choice of lifestyle, but
one which we have apparently come to consider as reasonable.
Your news article stresses the point precisely.