I love the moxie, sister!

Looks like a Nun is protesting Tom Hanks and his latest project- The DiVinci Code. Tom, Hollywood: Don't mess with the sisters and their house of prayer!

Lincoln is being used for filming even though its own dean has reportedly branded the book "a load of old tosh."

The Very Rev. Alec Knight and the cathedral chapter were said to have agreed to let filming take place after the film's producers made a £100,000 ($180,000) donation.

Sister Mary accused the cathedral of the sin of simony -- conducting financial transactions involving spiritual goods.

"The church should not be accepting money for something that is not a true story," she said. "They should be praying more, and then the money would come in. To a believer, any believer, what is happening is blasphemous."

Sister Mary said she began her protest at 5 a.m. "It was cold and dark. I was outside the Cathedral, facing towards the altar, and the ground was very hard.

"I prepared myself by going on a three-day St Patrick's Purgatory pilgrimage in Ireland earlier this month."

The Lough Derg pilgrimage in Donegal involves privation, lack of sleep and exercise.

"It helped me make my protest, which consisted of praying for an hour or an hour and a half, then walking around the Cathedral, then praying for another hour, until five in the afternoon.

"I won't be going back to do it again -- I think I have made my protest," she added.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/16/davinci.protest/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Comments

[Marty]

First, you post the John Piper quote. Then, the story about the nun. Strong stuff, especially about the church accepting the money to film there. You're killing me with this stuff. You know that?

[matt tullos]

Thanks Marty. Hope things are going well in Seattle!