Colorado nuns get higher fence to avoid harassment

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Colorado nuns get higher fence to avoid harassment

By Keith Coffman
April 22, 2016

DENVER (Reuters) - An order of cloistered Roman Catholic nuns won approval from a Denver suburb to build a higher fence to prevent people from entering their property to harass them, the Sisters' advocate said on Friday.

The Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Colorado asked the city of Littleton to add two feet to a six-foot fence after several incidents in the last two years of people scaling the walls and trespassing on the monastery grounds, said Mike Kisting, who made the request on behalf of the Sisters.

In one instance, a man clambered over the fence onto the 13-acre property, which the order has owned since 1947, and chased one of the nuns who had to flee and seek refuge inside a building, Kisting said.

"I can't fathom why a person would want to do that," said Kisting, the founder of a Catholic hospice, who volunteers to help the nuns. "He was lucky I wasn't there that day."


Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/colorado-nuns-higher-fence-avoid-harassment-021114045.html?nhp=1

[rpannier]

1. Lots of crazy people out there

Lucky no one has gotten hurt

[PatrynXX]

2. hopefully it wasn't some wingnut Lutheran

some don't get along


most Lutherans believe either The Pope or the office of the Pope is the anti Christ. that was one thing I rather disagreed with them on I'm a mix of WELS and LCMS

[marble falls]

4. We had a Lutheran nun assigned to my church in the sixties and a Lutheran monk to my church in the..

https://experiencewts.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/lutheran-nuns/


Lutheran Nuns
January 14, 2013 · by dbqwts · Bookmark the permalink. ·

Lutheran what?

Yes, Lutheran Nuns. And Monks Here in Germany there is an order of Lutheran Sisters and Brothers that was founded in 1949 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany in North-Bavaria. They call themselves the Community Christusbruderschaft Selbitz. Their organization is similar to the Franciscan order of the Catholic Church. The live under vows of chastity, poverty, and service. There are fewer brothers than sisters. The brothers all live near Halle and many of the sisters live together in Selbitz. However, there are also some who live in city communities. In Wittenberg, the city that we are currently visiting, houses three sisters.

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[IronLionZion]

7. Wow, I didn't know Lutherans were so militant

I'm Catholic but knew many Lutherans and went to their services and didn't find it militant or hateful at all. I was even impressed that they had a female minister. Yikes, I would hope they don't think the current pope is the anti-Christ. Some of the more conservative popes in the past maybe.

[LiberalElite]

8. My Catholic brother married a Lutheran girl

who had a Lutheran mother and Catholic father.

I had a Catholic cousin married to a Lutheran too.

[sulphurdunn]

10. Most Lutherans believe nothing of the kind.

[Yo_Mama]

15. I've never known a Lutheran who believed anything like that.

I don't know where you get that. I had one couple in my family (uncle's family) and I knew and went to school with quite a few. Never, ever even HEARD that.

[Dont call me Shirley]

18. i was raised Lutheran. Too many hypocrits. I don't believe in or use organized religion anymore.

[MrsMatt]

19. If you're a mix of WELS and LCMS

that explains your narrow view of what Lutherans believe.

http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/30096/what-are-the-primary-differences-between-these-lutheran-denominations

Signed, an ELCA Lutheran

[Demonaut]

3. we have a nunnery in Littleton?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Any crazy person who can climb a six-foot fence ...

... can probably climb an eight-foot fence.

Perhaps some holy concertina wire ...

[Vinca]

6. Wonder what the taxes might have been on a 13 acre property in Denver.

It sounds like the sisters require city services to protect them, but don't contribute to the tax base.

[sulphurdunn]

11. That's the problem.

I believe, that unlike most other tax exempt entities, churches are also exempt from reporting where their money comes from or how it is spent. This exemption also applies to some other organization that might surprise you. It did me.

https://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Annual-Exempt-Organization-Return-Who-Must-File

[MisterP]

12. the "Discalced" means they're not exactly rolling in it

[Vinca]

13. If the Catholic church can afford millions in settlements to victims of pedophile priests,

surely it can cough up a few bucks for the cloistered few who must think they have a hotline to the Almighty.

[MisterP]

14. you probably don't even know what a nun DOES, do you?

[Vinca]

17. Other than leech off the taxpayers? No and I'm not all that interested.

Religious organizations should be paying taxes - local, state and federal.

[LanternWaste]

20. The best mechanism to validate our biases is to claim disinterest in something we criticize.

The best mechanism to validate our biases is to claim disinterest in something we criticize. One simplistic premise is more than enough for the minds of many people to grasp.

[hunter]

21. I thought that was WalMart...

[TipTok]

22. Same thing many others do except tax free and the threat of eternal hellfire...

[Yo_Mama]

16. They are building their own face - this was about the permitting for that fence. n/t

[mrmpa]

9. Growing up I had a friend........

whose Aunt was a Discalced Carmelite Nun, who was in a cloistered convent in San Francisco (I think on an island in the bay?). Every year, her parents and her brother went out to visit. This was back in the '60's & '70's. I can't imagine anyone harassing women who stay unto themselves & not wanting outside contact.

[yellowcanine]

23. That guy is lucky one of the nuns didn't smack his hand with a ruler.