This stigma of the "unnatural" beleifs of catholicism always has mystified me. While repainting the old nuns quarters in Spokane washington my father, a painter, told me about finding boxes of rubbers with in the furniture & between mattress's they had to move so they could paint.
Years later in 1971 while I was an apprentice painter & assigned by my boss to the new Sacred Heart hospital being built I was shocked to see nuns, several times, smoking cigarettes while driving in cars.
1980 took the cake tho. While waiting for my girl friends lunch break out side the basement door at Mt. St. Josephs nursing home two middle aged nuns came thru the door, walked down the wall about ten feet & casually lit up cigarettes. A third nun came thru the door not two minutes later & fired up a cigarette not two feet from me. I asked her "I didn't know nuns smoked". She replied "sisters enjoy lifes simple pleasures also". This was a younger nun, say early thirties. Go figure!
2006-09-18 08:56:05 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
go figure ... interesting
2006-09-18 08:58:21 · answer #1 · answered by jack jack 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And you answered your own question. Give yourself 2 points.
I don't know any nun (priest, rabbi, monk, pope) anywhere that is not a person first, nun (whatever) 2nd.
The walls of the catacombs in Rome were lined with corpses of dead babies. And there are tunnels under lots of priests' houses to the nunneries. So smoking doesn't surprise me.
There was a good-looking priest and nun at my (catholic) high school who later left the service and got married! We were happy for them.
I think the hypocrisy is the part I find so distastedful. I think they would do the world a serivce to show that it is hard to be "perfect" even when that is your job.
But instead they hide and back each other up, so abuse and deceit are common. Pedophiles are the result.
I am a recovering catholic, been an atheist for 40 years, but I don't know exactly what "unnatural beliefs" you are talking about.
Often, people decide to forego the luxuries and headaches of the physical world, to try to devote themselves to the "invisible." Results vary as much as people do.
What I want to know is "boxers or briefs"?
2006-09-18 09:40:52 · answer #2 · answered by Lottie W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a) ""unnatural" beleifs of catholicism" - Not all nuns are catholic, also each of the orders have their own vows, rules, traditions, etc.
b) "finding boxes of rubbers" - Few people, in my experience, live up to their commitments. Personally it's hard for me to imagine swearing off sex without going insane so it doesn't surprise me.
c)"smoking cigarettes while driving in cars." - I wasn't aware of smoking being prohibited, keep in mind most of the rules they live by are quite old and smoking wasn't vilified until the 70s at the earliest (when people started realizing the significance of their negative health impact). And again each of the orders maintain their own rules and vows.
Also your seeming discomfort with nuns is fairly common, clowns bother me the same way :).
Take it easy,
Armus
2006-09-18 09:04:46 · answer #3 · answered by Armus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no specific prohibition against smoking.
There is a vow of chastity. Nuns are human, though. People take vows of fidelity all the time when they get married - and look how many actually keep thier vows...
2006-09-18 08:59:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
smoking has never been considered a sin. it's stupid, but being stupid isn't a sin either, obviously. and since when is driving considered a sin?
and i seriously doubt they found boxes of rubbers in a convent that housed only nuns, especially pre-1971.
you better sit down for this one: they can drink alcohol, too! woooooo scaaaaarrrryyyyy...
who cares?
2006-09-18 09:09:18 · answer #5 · answered by buffysummers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So,
All Christians are supposed to be Saints on earth?
Tough crowd.
As far as sex, they take a vow of celibacy, they are not supposed to, I doubt many do.
But there are always some who break their vows.
People are human, even Nuns and Priests.
Peace!
2006-09-18 09:00:27 · answer #6 · answered by C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I went to catholic school. Yes, nuns smoke and drink. I never witnessed nun-sex, and I'm not interested, but I guess I wouldn't be surprised if they did that too =)
2006-09-18 09:00:38 · answer #7 · answered by ♥Mira♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-17 05:32:29 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uhuh! Strange this post came up. I was just telling some one about the documents I used to have of a church that was torn down and they found skeletons of new borns with evidence of the umbilical chord still attached.
Here's one of my old files that may be of interest to you.
2006-09-18 09:00:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Huh, and I always thought they weren't allowed to smoke. Go figure. But everyone else made an excellent point, they are human after all.
2006-09-18 09:14:45 · answer #10 · answered by horselover1416 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they don't but there have been stories of nuns hiding babies in the walls, it must drive a person mad...
2006-09-18 09:00:35 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋