A new broom sweeps clean.Ī directive arrives informing the sisters that not only has church doctrine been updated by the new pope, the church is graciously supplying them with a priest to oversee them. Several cardinals who might have opposed the new order have conveniently died. The new pope is inclined to take a harder line than his predecessor. The old pope has died and his successor is a cousin of a former ECG ruler. Just as the Earth left the colonies alone, so too did the church take a hands-off approach to its wandering nuns. This will affect the sisters on board Our Lady of Impossible Constellations. Freedom from ECG comes bundled with freedom from all the medical resources ECG once provided.ĭuring the revolution, the rebels scourged the Earth, executing some ECG leaders and driving the others into exile, For some time the wounded ECG let the colonies to go their own way. Forty years ago the colonies cast off the rule of the Earth Central Governance. Their spiritual ministry often takes a back seat to medical assistance. The living starship Our Lady of Impossible Constellations conveys the sisters of the Order of Saint Rita between several extrasolar systems, where they minister to scattered human colonies. Lina Rather’s 2019 Sisters of The Vast Black is a standalone science fiction novella.
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