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First picture of nun who had baby when she didn't know she was pregnant
Daily Mail ^ | 1/18/2014 | Daily Mail

Posted on 01/19/2014 11:09:43 AM PST by Dallas59

This is the first picture of nun and new mother Roxana Rodriguez.

The 33-year-old woman, a nun with the order of the Little Disciples of Jesus, stunned her mother superior and local church chiefs after giving birth last week to a baby boy which she has called Francis, in honour of the current Pope.

Sister Roxana initially claimed to have no idea that she was pregnant and thought her labour pains were 'stomach cramps' when an ambulance rushed her to hospital in severe pain after being called by fellow nuns when she collapsed at her nunnery.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
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To: Las Vegas Ron
No disrespect for or to Catholics, I just don't get it.

A mechanism imposed to keep legitimate heirs to clergy from claiming church property as inheritance.

41 posted on 01/19/2014 11:54:32 AM PST by Professional Engineer (I am not cynical. /s)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Thanks for your reply, Joe. I'm going to abstain from comment as I know from past experience hoe these threads turn out.

It's a shame too as I have many questions I would like to ask, just so I could learn and understand.

42 posted on 01/19/2014 11:55:58 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: vladimir998
It wasn’t nonsense to Christ, however. That pretty much settles the matter then.

Not exactly. There is supposed documentation that Christ consorted with known prostitutes. It is "biblical", by the way.

43 posted on 01/19/2014 11:57:27 AM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Dallas59

How nice of her to name the baby after the Pope. If she’s enough of a Catholic to name her baby after the Pope, why didn’t she obey her vows?


44 posted on 01/19/2014 11:58:45 AM PST by Nea Wood
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To: vladimir998
Celibacy in service to the kingdom of God is voluntary and praised by Christ Himself.

Celibacy is praised by Christ Himself

Really...?

I find that hard to believe...

Chapter and verse please...

45 posted on 01/19/2014 11:59:00 AM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I think everything in your post makes perfect sense.


46 posted on 01/19/2014 12:00:37 PM PST by Tax-chick (I don't want to set the world on fire.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

I don’t have all the answers, by any means, Ron, and this isn’t the Religion Forum, so stuff could get pretty ugly out there.


47 posted on 01/19/2014 12:02:10 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Innovative

She didn’t break her vows. She took her vows in September. She was already pregnant at the time.


48 posted on 01/19/2014 12:03:45 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: elkfersupper; vladimir998

The Bible says he allowed a known prostitute to wash his feet.

Not sure about the “consorted” as that implies sexual relations. If you’re going to engage in blasphemy you might want to try better then “supposed documentation”.


49 posted on 01/19/2014 12:05:05 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Aliska
It's based on Jesus words/teaching when asked by a widow which of her seven dead husbands would be her husband in heaven. Jesus answered her that she knew not (more words), those that are counted worthy of that life neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angels in heaven."

This is one reason why I hope that there is no heaven or hell.

The last place I would want to spend eternity would be with my ex-spouses. Or with my dead parents and most of my dead relatives, by the way.

50 posted on 01/19/2014 12:05:19 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper
Christ spent much of his time with sinners, sure. Those who were convinced they were without sin would not have listened, and He was needed elsewhere.

Doctors 'hang out' with sick people, too. That doesn't mean the doctor is sick.

Feel free to post references of "consorting".

51 posted on 01/19/2014 12:05:55 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Innovative

>>The “nun” broke her vows.>>

No, she didn’t. The article states that:

“...as she took her vows and became a nun in the order last September.”

That means that she was almost five months pregnant when she joined the order. And that no doubt means that she was less than honest with the Sister Superior when she joined the order.

I do not know the requirements for every order of nuns on earth. Perhaps if she had truly repented for sex outside marriage, and did not know at that early date in the pregnancy that she was “with child,” her particular order might have accepted her. But, if she had missed periods as pregnant women usually do, then she should NOT have applied for acceptance to the religious order.

But once her vows were made, there’s no reason to say that she broke them.


52 posted on 01/19/2014 12:06:46 PM PST by kitkat (STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Actually at one time priests were allowed to marry and have families. BUT when they died the family inherited their wealth instead of the church. Always follow the money. ;)


53 posted on 01/19/2014 12:07:23 PM PST by sheana
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To: Smokin' Joe
and this isn’t the Religion Forum, so stuff could get pretty ugly out there.

Whew, the "religious" forum is where it gets the ugliest!!

I learned my lesson the hard way!

54 posted on 01/19/2014 12:08:49 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: driftdiver

Can you tell us where in the Bible anything says Mary Magdalene was a prostitute? It aint in there,,,


55 posted on 01/19/2014 12:10:03 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: driftdiver
If you’re going to engage in blasphemy you might want to try better then “supposed documentation”.

I don't believe in "blasphemy".

What is the crime, who is the victim and what is the punishment?

56 posted on 01/19/2014 12:10:56 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Smokin' Joe
Feel free to post references of "consorting".

You post them. Search out Mary Magdalene.

57 posted on 01/19/2014 12:12:13 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Las Vegas Ron

I stay out of there, mainly because it gets (in a very ordered and calm way) incredibly nasty at times. I’d have to lurk on that one before I posted much.


58 posted on 01/19/2014 12:13:17 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: elkfersupper

Whoa. You made the reference, pal. Back it up.


59 posted on 01/19/2014 12:15:17 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I don’t go to any forum deliberately as my FR page is “latest articles” so I see all recent posts.

It makes for interesting reading and conversation....to say the least!


60 posted on 01/19/2014 12:16:26 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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