Yet another nun more in love with the media than Christ leaves her order. The Prosecco Nun.
Yet another nun more in love with the media than Christ leaves her order. The Prosecco Nun.
This is an article written in her defence - it is not view I share. A religious life performed is not a religious life all.
People are fed up with the Church. And what does the Church do? It drives away the few people who offer hope for change.
When the future of the Church is discussed today, the phrase often comes up that it needs to become more modern, more open, and closer to the people. Yet the case of Aline Pereira Ghammachi—known as the "Prosecco Nun"—demonstrates how much the institution struggles with precisely the kind of personalities who actually have the potential to save the Church itself.
In 2018, at the age of just 34, the Brazilian-born woman was appointed Abbess of the Cistercian convent of San Giacomo di Veglia in northern Italy. This made her one of the youngest heads of a convent in the country. Unlike many of her predecessors, she brought not only theological knowledge but …