French Nun Denied a Place in Retirement Home Due to Religious Habit

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In October 2018, an elderly nun applied for a place in a retirement home in Vesoul, run by the city’s Centre Communal d’Action Sociale (CCAS) in her home prefecture of Haute-Saone. After nine months on the waiting list, on July 2019, her request for housing was accepted, but with one condition: “With due respect for secularism, any ostentatious sign of belonging to a religious community cannot be accepted in order to ensure the serenity of all. Indeed, religion is a private affair and must remain so.” The nun was told she could only wear a discreet cross. Having worn her religious habit all of her adult life, she refused to comply and was thus denied a place.
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French Nun Denied a Place in Retirement Home Due to Religious Habit

In October 2018, an elderly nun applied for a place in a retirement home in Vesoul, run by the city's Centre Communal d'Action Sociale (CCAS) in her home prefecture of Haute-Saone. After nine months on the waiting list, on July 2019, her request for housing was accepted, but with one condition...
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Yes, unfortunately, the law here allows for this. It is the first time I’ve heard of it being enforced, though. (Note that I do not scour the Web daily looking for these incidents.) I am encouraged the mayor disagreed with the decision.

Under the current law, the only way to avoid leaving aging priests and religious in the lurch is to have private facilities that can set their own rules. This is what the Archdiocese I live in has done.
 
If we think that could never happen here, guess again. It can and will if the socialists ever get into power.
 
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There was a time when people were more willing to live and let live – to mind their own business, so long as they weren’t being harmed by the actions of others. At one time, folks were also more tolerant of those who don’t share their life views or their world views.

A nun wearing her habit isn’t imposing her religion on anyone else. She isn’t going up to people and insisting they convert to her faith. She is simply wearing the habit of her order, and it has nothing to do with anyone else there.

Suppose someone likes wearing loud colors, but doesn’t insist that anyone else wear loud colors. Is that one person to be persecuted and discriminated against simply because they choose to wear what they enjoy, while leaving others free to wear whatever they want?

How far can this go, this infringing on the individual rights of others to live their lives in harmless ways?

If it doesn’t hurt anyone, leave it alone! Let folks live and follow their vocations, so long as they don’t try to force themselves and their choices on others.
 
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It may come as a surprise, but even the Little Sisters of the Poor do not permit Nuns & Sisters to wear their religious habit in their Homes . Some religious have gotten permission thru their Bishop.
 
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It may come as a surprise, but even the Little Sisters of the Poor do not permit Nuns & Sisters to wear their religious habit in their Homes . Some religious have gotten permission thru their Bishop.
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Is it something as basic and mundane as laundry issues?
 
Just out of curiosity, are outwardly visible scapulars (such as those worn over street clothing, as is one’s prerogative) against the law in France?

I wear my scapular underneath my shirt, but when I have been on the beach in France, I have removed my scapular, reasoning that this just might be so. Was I right?
 
We have an Old Nun’s Home near me. They wear their habits if they want to.
 
What a ridiculous and sad rule! Why even allow the discreet cross, since someone may be offended by that?
 
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