{"id":3927,"date":"2010-01-19T22:40:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T22:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/01\/scott-browns-nuns.html"},"modified":"2010-01-19T22:40:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T22:40:32","slug":"scott-browns-nuns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/01\/scott-browns-nuns.html","title":{"rendered":"Scott Brown’s nuns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new senator-elect from Massachusetts is not Catholic, but he has a long-standing relationship<\/a> with an order of nuns: <\/p>\n

\nThe family worships at New England Chapel in Franklin, a member of the Christian Reformed Church of America, a Protestant denomination, but has developed a special relationship with an order of Cistercian Catholic nuns at Mt. St. Mary’s Abbey in Wrentham.<\/p>\n

Many of the 48 nuns are from other countries, and Brown’s first contact was in response to their request for help on an immigration matter.<\/p>\n

“It has turned into a beautiful friendship,” said Sister Katie McNamara, the monastery’s nurse.<\/p>\n

Brown raised money to buy a special golf cart to transport elderly sisters, and, with his wife, has assisted efforts to raise $5.5 million needed to replace the order’s 50-year-old candy factory with an environmentally friendly plant, complete with solar panels and a wind turbine. The order is self-sustaining through sale of its candies and fudges.<\/p>\n

“We pray for them every day,” Sister Katie said of Brown and his family.<\/p>\n

“When you have nuns praying for you three times a day and you’re not Catholic, anything that anybody can do or say about me, it’s Teflon,” Brown said. “It bounces right off.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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