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SITUATION RESOLVED!! Bronx Nuns Seek Extermination...
for immediate release
contact: Neighborhood Cats (212) 662-5761 Neighborhood Cats and Corpus Christi Nuns Reach Agreement: Cats to get New Home at Pets Alive Sanctuary! (June 8, 2005) Neighborhood Cats and In Defense of Animals (IDA) are happy to announce that we have reached a mutually acceptable agreement with the Dominican Nuns of the Corpus Christi Monastery in the Bronx, NY. The Sisters have made a compassionate, humane decision to allow the Feral Cat Initiative, a program of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals that is administered by Neighborhood Cats staffers, to come to the Monastery to gather the cats and take them to their new home at the Pets Alive sanctuary in Middletown, NY. We want to stress to the public that relocating a colony of feral cats is very rarely an option but in this unusual case we were fortunate to receive this generous offer from the Pets Alive sanctuary. We would like to thank the Sisters of the Corpus Christi Monastery, the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, the Humane Society of New York and Pets Alive for their humane efforts to help these cats get safely to their new home. We would also like to thank the thousands of people who called and wrote us expressing their deep care and concern for the safety and well-being of these feral cats. Bronx Nuns Seek Extermination of 8 Year Old Cat Colony For immediate release Contact: Neighborhood Cats, Inc. 212-662-5761 What Happened to the "Cat" in Catholic? (June 7, 2005) Newly elected Pope Benedict XVI's well-known love of stray cats apparently is not shared by the Dominican Nuns of the Corpus Christi Monastery in the Bronx, New York. The Mother Superior has ordered the removal of seven feral cats who are almost all neutered, rabies vaccinated and have lived on the monastery's five acres for the past 8 years. In a decision backed by the Archdiocese of NY, the plan is to first try to force the cats to leave by withholding all food and starving them. Then if they don't go on their own, the resident Sisters will trap them and hand them over to the city. Shelter workers would be forced to euthanize the cats because they are feral and unadoptable and have nowhere else to be placed. The Vicar of the Religious Office for the Archdiocese, Sister Helen C., stated, "my compassion does not extend to these animals" and "they will be removed eventually, one way or another." "The plan is not only cruel for depriving these cats of their long-time home and causing their suffering and likely deaths, it is ineffective feral cat population control," said Bryan Kortis, Executive Director of Neighborhood Cats, a leading feral cat organization and a member of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals. "Maintaining neutered feral colonies, using a method known as Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), is the only proven way to reduce feral numbers in the long term. Otherwise, new unneutered cats will simply replace the ones removed and the cycle of suffering and killing will go on indefinitely." Over the past eight years, at their own expense, volunteers have removed nine cats from the grounds of the monastery and placed them in homes. The cats too wild to be adopted were neutered and returned, stopping their reproduction, and were then fed by the nuns. Now, however, the nuns and the Archdiocese refuse to even meet with animal advocates to discuss the situation. To protest this heartless and ill-guided assault on the cats, please contact the Corpus Christi Monastery and the Archdiocese of NY by phone, email or fax (see below.) Let them know we expect more from our religious leaders than pointless cruelty towards innocent animals: Corpus Christi Monastery phone: 718-328-6996 fax: 718-328-1974 email: Archdiocese of NY phone: 212-371-1000 (ask for Public Relations or the Vicar of the Religious Office) fax: 212-826-6020 email: Act now! The cats have not been fed for five days and counting!! From www.nunsopbronx.homestead.com: "The DOMINICAN NUNS of Corpus Christi Monastery, Bronx, New York, are a monastic community dedicated to a life of prayer and penance for the preaching mission of the Dominican Order and for the salvation of souls." For more on Trap-Neuter-Return: www.neighborhoodcats.org The Archdiocese appears to be turning away emails coming in about the cats. Please go to this page for more ways to reach them: http://www.ny-archdiocese.org/more_info.html Also, for info on how to contact the Vatican: http://www.insidethevatican.com/contact-us.htm Thank you! Bryan Kortis Neighborhood Cats Novena Prayer to St. Francis of Assisi St. Francis of Assisi, help us. By your example may we learn that life does not consist in the pursuit of wealth nor in the abundance of our possessions. St. Francis of Assisi, come to our aid. Because we live at a time when men glorify ease and seek after luxuries, and when many wish only the gratification of fleshly desires, we stand in special need of your single-minded dedication to Christ in the narrow way that leads to life. St. Francis of Assisi, assist us now. May we appreciate as you did the beauties of God's wonderful creation and the glory of the world He made for us. Help us to enjoy and appreciate God's bounty without spoiling or defacing His gifts by our heedlessness and greed. Teach us, seraphic Father Francis, to value all things as Christ did and to be imitators of Him as you were. May we thus enjoy the good things of life, but always prefer the blessings of the endless life to come. Amen. V. God forbid that I should glory... R. Save in the cross of our Lord, Jesus Christ. St. Francis, the Little Poor Man of Assisi, we invoke you as the admirable mirror you were of our Divine Master. You imitated Christ in your humility and obedience. You faithfully followed Him in poverty and weakness. With joy you accepted suffering, contempt, and trials, for the sake of His name. In your goodness help us, then, to imitate your example. By your power with God, obtain for us the special favor we now seek throughout your intercession. (Here name your petitions). Please pray for us, gentle and happy saint of the poor, that we may always be loyal followers of our Savior, Jesus Christ, and filled always with Divine riches. Amen. (To make the Novena, recite this prayer for 9 consecutive days) Prayer for Our Animal Friends Heavenly Father, our human ties with our friends of other species is a wonderful and special gift from You. We now ask You to grant our special animal companions your Fatherly care and healing power to take away any suffering they have. Give us, their human friends, new understanding of our responsibilities to these creatures of Yours. They have trust in us as we have in You; our souls and theirs are on this earth together to give one another friendship, affection, and caring. Take our petition for these, Your ill or suffering animals. Take our heartfelt prayers and fill them with healing Light and strength to overcome whatever weakness of body they have. (Here mention the names of the animals needing prayer). Your goodness is turned upon every living thing; Your grace flows to all Your creatures. From our souls to theirs goodness flows out and touches each of us with the reflection of Your love. To our special animal companions grant long and healthy lives. Give them good relationships with us, and if You see fit to take them from us, help us to understand that they are not gone from us, but only drawing closer to You. Grant our prayer through the intercession of good St. Francis of Assisi, who honored You through all Your creatures. Give him the power to watch over our animal friends until they are safely with You in eternity, where we someday hope to join them in giving You honor forever. Amen. Prayer for Our Pets Good St. Francis, you loved all of God's creatures. To you they were your brothers and sisters. Help us to follow your example of treating every living thing with kindness. St. Francis, Patron Saint of animals, watch over my pet and keep my companion safe and healthy. Amen. |
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