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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
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