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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5510721/Nun-says-shes-left-legal-fight-Katy-Perry.html
Question: where did the nuns get all that money in 1972 to buy this stunning property? It says they "...pooled their money together, and paid £431,000 in 1972 and paid it off over three years."
That was a lot of money in 1972! How did a little group of nuns get so much dough?
And this:
"According to Sister Callanan, he started 'sending us to retirement homes, one by one, separately, so we weren't a unit.' She says all their bank accounts were closed - they each had upwards of £215,000 in their accounts."
So the Archdiocese recently confiscated huge bank accounts from these nuns. But the journalist is stunningly incurious about how the nuns got so flush in the first place. Where is all this money coming from? I thought nuns took a vow of poverty.
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Who knows the rights and wrongs and legalities of this, but I'd be kinder on the nuns here.
Firstly, the convent was the property of the Catholic church, and the nuns were presumably given it. Secondly, some of them are in a bad way with breast cancer and illnesses. Thirdly, it's the church that is selling it, not the nuns who own nothing personally as far as I see. So it's not a nice one. The church might legitimately want to sell, to free up funds for 'good work', but they have a responsibility to the sisters.
Not to get cheap gossip-column ad hominem here (ad feminam?) it's interesting that some people in the papers would side with Ms Perry, even as they did over her Russ Brand 'divorce by text' thing. Brand is now happily married with a family, very active not just in his original career as a comedian, but highly involved in activism, studying at uni (a proper one) and writing on addiction, with truly excellent hour-long (often 90 minutes) web interviews with leading philosophers and thinkers in science, religion, psychology and politics. He's a work in progress, and always growing. He's upfront about narcissism and ferociously honest. And fun.
Why mention him? (He'd not thank us for introducing him here)... well, if HE'd bought the house, he'd probably say, 'I'd not want to make those nice spiritual nun ladies destitute: that's not the deed of a cosmically aware geezer who eschews materialism: I shall find some other dwelling place, there's room for us all'.
Plus, who knows what acts of charity the nuns have done regularly?
I'm not a Catholic, by the way, lest any conspiracy theorists put two and two together and run with the cliché.
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