posted on September 19, 2003 07:01:34 PM
Have we really gone overboard?
Officials Say Cloistered Nuns Are Security Risks
CLEVELAND, 7:21 p.m. EDT September 19, 2003 - Two Cleveland nuns pray day and night, but it may not be enough to keep them from being deported.
NewsChannel5 reported that the Department of Homeland Security is ordering two Korean sisters out of the country, saying they don't qualify for visas. But the cloistered nuns are hoping a higher power will intervene.
The women live as cloistered nuns with the order of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland. Inside, the nuns pray for the entire world 24 hours a day. They never leave the church except for when they need medical care, and they have almost no contact with the outside world.
But on Friday, they spoke with NewsChannel5 behind steel bars in the visitors' parlor. The bars are a symbol to their commitment to God, prayer and their separation from society.
Sister Mary Cecilia and Sister Mary Catherinia, of Korea, must now deal with the outside world. The Department of Homeland Security said the sisters are security risks. Both Korean sisters may be deported because the U.S. Immigration Service said they don't qualify for religious worker visas.
"I think it's very sad," said Sister Mary Joseph, a cloistered nun. "They're not going to hurt anyone at all."
But the immigration service said it is only following policy. The security policy applies to everyone, including cloistered nuns.
The Poor Clares have filed an appeal and are praying that help from above will intervene.
"Oh, we pray (that the) sisters will get their papers," Mother Mary James said.
The nuns will find out within the next three weeks whether they will be deported back to their home country of South Korea. They have written to President George W. Bush hoping they will be granted the visas. The story made the front page of Friday's Wall Street Journal.
posted on September 19, 2003 07:31:20 PM
My guess is Twelve turned them in!!!
The sleazy foriegners are taking the place of American nuns. They're probably being silent for less rice than American nuns therefore dispacing them.let them be silent back in Korea or wherever they come from if you get my drift.
Republican, the other white meat!
[ edited by davebraun on Sep 19, 2003 07:34 PM ]
posted on September 19, 2003 09:53:32 PM
John Ashcroft and Orrin Hatch will have to do their duty and fisk each and every one of them for hidden weapons. Such patriots!
-------------- sig file ----------- President John F. Kennedy said, "There are three things which are real: God, human folly and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension, so we must do what we can with the third."
posted on September 20, 2003 05:11:21 AM
What I find funny (and I mean ha ha funny) is the article's title. I never thought of cloistered nuns as security risks.
posted on September 20, 2003 06:34:55 AM
"I think it's very sad," said Sister Mary Joseph, a cloistered nun. "They're not going to hurt anyone at all."
