Chapter 33: Sublime Solutions

The Bishop's housekeeper, the mother of the newly pregnant Jan and Sally, was Bridget, the daughter of his previous housekeeper, Kate.

Kate had been young, a buxom Irish lass who had become pregnant and was delighted to get the position of housekeeper for a handsome, young parish priest. She had her baby, a girl she named Bridget, and she'd remained housekeeper as the priest progressed somewhat in the hierarchy. Kate was a weekly provider of solace to the priest when he imbibed heavily of the spirit and this continued when, as a young man, he became Bishop.

Bridget was thirteen when the Bishop really took not of her precociously developed body and with the full acquiescence of her mother; he began using her for his weekly solace. The results were first Jan and then two years later, Sally. After that he decided it was less of a sin to use condoms than to continue to produce illegitimate offspring.

Father Murphy was unaware of the family connection between the Bishop and the pregnant teenagers but had he been aware he would have worried less.

"Are they the only ones who, to be crude about it, you and Brother John knocked up?"

"As far as I know, Your Excellence," the priest replied in a quavering voice.

"Well then, make sure. I need to know just how many of these innocent youngsters you profligate sinners have made with child. It's not as bad as with the priests who like boys. At least what you're doing had God's blessing and this time we'll clean it up with no negatives for the Church."

Father Murphy was back two days later with the results which, fortunately were negative as far as additional pregnancies are concerned. Had he checked a week or so later though the result would have been different. But now the pregnant Mother Superior was also present.

"Neither of you deserve the resolution that the Diocese has agreed to but this is what will happen. You, Ursula along with your sinful cohorts, Sisters Sarah and Lisa will remain in your present positions until you are unable to continue. Your habits will disguise your condition. You will then go to Ste. Adele's Convent where we care for unmarried girls who become pregnant but who are faithful enough to abjure abortion. There also the two other girls will go but only when their condition has advanced enough to be visible. Now all of you go back to work ... except you, Father Murphy. You and your equally predatory Brother John must either have a vasectomy or leave the Order."

Father Murphy and Brother John chose the vasectomy route and remained at the convent. The nuns returned after bearing their children as did Jan and Sally and with their vasectomized consorts, they were all able to enjoy continued pleasure of each other's company.

The potential problem of young Sherry's pregnancy was fortuitously solved by a natural miscarriage in her second month that she believed to be only a menstrual disorder.