text: No, I didn't know this, but it doesn't surprise me. That order has strange opinions.
  
  I watched a video last year on some of the order's activities in India; the video, a piece of investigative journalism, was on YouTube. Apparently, one of the senior nuns committed an act of calculated sadism on three or four young children at her school. The children, from poor families, were suspected  (just suspected) of stealing a sum of money from the school and the nun lined them up while she heated a metal knife on some sort of stove; she then seared a hand of each child. It was vicious! And gravely sinful.
  
  The reporter interviewed the nun who had replaced Mother Theresa as Superior General and who had been named by Mother herself as her successor: Sister Mary Nirmala. Mary Nirmala defended the conduct of the senior nun on the ground that what had happened needed to happen in order to teach the children exactly whom it was they were serving.
  
  I am not making this up. I only wish I were.