Ban on elderly nun’s habit in retirement home went too far

Chrystal-J · Nov 22, 2019

Dijon, France, Nov 22, 2019 / 10:35 am (CNA).- An elderly nun in France has received an apology from a French mayor after retirement home staff wrongly rejected her, citing a strict ban on religious garb and “ostentatious” signs of religion.

The rules would have barred the nun from wearing her religious habit and veil at the publicly funded home.

Alain Chrétien, the mayor of Vesoul in the Haute-Saône region, apologized to the nun and offered to help her find public housing.

“This error of judgment is very regrettable,” he said, according to the New York Times.

The mayor said that the retirement home’s staff had made a “big blunder.” He said state employees are sometimes “paralyzed” by issues of secularism, and worried that “everyone has their own definition” of the term.

Link: Ban on elderly nun’s habit in retirement home went too far, French mayor says

Michie · Nov 22, 2019

Lord have mercy. The days of "Big Brother" are upon us.

Chrystal-J said:
Dijon, France, Nov 22, 2019 / 10:35 am (CNA).- An elderly nun in France has received an apology from a French mayor after retirement home staff wrongly rejected her, citing a strict ban on religious garb and “ostentatious” signs of religion.

The rules would have barred the nun from wearing her religious habit and veil at the publicly funded home.

Alain Chrétien, the mayor of Vesoul in the Haute-Saône region, apologized to the nun and offered to help her find public housing.

“This error of judgment is very regrettable,” he said, according to the New York Times.

The mayor said that the retirement home’s staff had made a “big blunder.” He said state employees are sometimes “paralyzed” by issues of secularism, and worried that “everyone has their own definition” of the term.

Link: Ban on elderly nun’s habit in retirement home went too far, French mayor says

Chrystal-J · Nov 22, 2019

This comment stuck out to me: He said state employees are sometimes “paralyzed” by issues of secularism, and worried that “everyone has their own definition” of the term.

Paralyzed is the correct word.

Michie · Nov 22, 2019

Chrystal-J said:
This comment stuck out to me: He said state employees are sometimes “paralyzed” by issues of secularism, and worried that “everyone has their own definition” of the term.

Paralyzed is the correct word.

And that's it right there. It stifles people so much they either over react to cover their backsides. Those that attempt to do the right thing are painted as villains and bigoted haters. Let the elderly nun wear her habit without turning everything and everyone into a target!

pdudgeon · Nov 22, 2019

There is a very long history behind this that goes all the way back to the French Revolution, especially as it was fought in the Vendee'.
War in the Vendée - Wikipedia
"The historian FranÃ§ois Furet concludes that the repression in the VendÃ©e "not only revealed massacre and destruction on an unprecedented scale but also a zeal so violent that it has bestowed as its legacy much of the region's identity ... The war aptly epitomizes the depth of the conflict ... between religious tradition and the revolutionary foundation of democracy."

Beloved2018 · Nov 23, 2019

Shouldn't a convent take her in? I hate to think of any religious man or woman having to be cared for outside the Church.

Michie · Nov 23, 2019

Beloved2018 said:
Shouldn't a convent take her in? I hate to think of any religious man or woman having to be cared for outside the Church.

Ideally but not all convents are equipped. I know there was a monk I visited weekly that was in the nursing home as well.

Beloved2018 · Nov 23, 2019

God bless you for doing that! That is just so sad.

Michie said:
Ideally but not all convents are equipped. I know there was a monk I visited weekly that was in the nursing home as well.

Michie · Nov 23, 2019

Beloved2018 said:
God bless you for doing that! That is just so sad.

It is sad. I got to know him by bring communion there every week. He has since went to be with God.

Beloved2018 · Nov 23, 2019

What was his name?

Michie said:
It is sad. I got to know him by bring communion there every week. He has since went to be with God.

Michie · Nov 23, 2019

Beloved2018 said:
What was his name?

Matthew.

charsan · Nov 23, 2019

Beloved2018 said:
Shouldn't a convent take her in? I hate to think of any religious man or woman having to be cared for outside the Church.

Absolutely agree

Michie · Nov 23, 2019

charsan said:
Absolutely agree

Not all convents are equipped for medical care. Especially if it requires intensive care. That does not mean they are forgotten or neglected.

charsan · Nov 23, 2019

Michie said:
Not all convents are equipped for medical care. Especially if it requires intensive care. That does not mean they are forgotten or neglected.

True

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