Nuns Sue Neighbor

 "A convent of nuns in suburban Chicago has filed a lawsuit against a neighbor, a strip club they say plays throbbing music while the nuns try to pray" is the first sentence that begins the article entitled 'Love thy neighbor'? Nuns sue nearby strip club. [1]

Unabashed decadence and debauchery is taking place right next to the convent where nuns are supposedly praying to save those immersed in it.  Whether they have been praying for them or not has not been established factually.  Even if they have been, their prayers have not been answered fast enough.  Ergo, enter the lawyers.  Not that legal arguments made in a court of law will hasten and guarantee divine intervention of any kind, rather the lawyers who make them will be able to provide a continually updated estimated date for the final post-appeal adjudication of the dispute, whether or not those addicted to a life decadence and debauchery will actually repent their ways in response to the nuns' prayers to save them.

The nuns' lawsuit is for them, to foster religious life in peace and quite, not for God or for the salvation of souls.  While I agree that the nuns ought to be able to pray and seek heavenly peace in quietude, suing the strip club may or may not result in the remedy they seek.  Perhaps kneeling in prayer near the entrance of the strip club may be more effective in reaching the conscience of those attending, perhaps in time they will patronize the establishment less and less, resulting in the decision of the strip club owner(s) to relocate on the one hand, and in turning one or more souls away from the salacious temptations of the flesh toward a more holy life that has God at the center on the other. [2]



[1] http://bigstory.ap.org/article/love-thy-neighbor-nuns-sue-nearby-strip-club
[2] By praying on their knees night after night, the nuns might even change the mind(s) of the owner(s) with God's help so that the strip club business would be converted to a restaurant that purchases fresh vegetables and herbs from the convent's garden to serve its diners.  Watch a video of a nun watering the vegetable garden at about 0:42 seconds at: http://kdvr.com/2014/06/17/chicago-nuns-sue-strip-club-say-its-too-close-to-convent/