The Cut:
A Southern California Catholic school recently discovered that two of its nuns were low-key bon vivants who embezzled approximately $500,000 to go gambling and take vacations — a clear violation of that whole vow of poverty thing.
Although church leaders were shocked to discover the sisters had been embezzling from tuition and other school funds, BuzzFeed News reports that past and current families connected to the school have been writing social-media posts about how they’re not all that surprised to learn of the nuns’ behavior, as their beloved pastimes of traveling and gambling — both of which require a decent amount of money! — weren’t exactly secret.
“Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned…” indeed. You just know there’s a Hollywood screenwriter working on turning this into a movie as we speak.
I think they taught me at Our Lady of Perpetual Motion.
Gambling nuns? That sounds like a bad habit.
Catholicism is the most fun of all the major lies.
I *knew* someone would make that joke. 🙂
I think Asimov nailed it.
I have heard some religious are gambling these days to shore up collection plate deficiencies. Could this be what they were doing?