Rebel Monks

is a term you just don't hear all that often. How this only made page A23 of the Philadelphia Inquirer, I don't know. It's fantastic irony.

The story is, some monks in Greece are fighting some other monks in Greece for control of a monastery. The Orthodox Church wants the rebel monks, who are occupying said monastery, gone. Courts have ordered their eviction. The rebel monks aren't leaving, and they oppose any effort to improve relations b/w the OC and the Vatican.

Where is Ratzinger, I mean Benedict XVI, in all this? He's busy making friends with the Orthodox Church but apparently has no words for (cue Peter Gunn) rebel monks.

Sledgehammer-wielding monks: it's practically a Python sketch.



http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/nation/16286135.htm
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/60/story_6021_1.html