One of Christianity’s holiest churches, built over the birthplace of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, became the scene of an ugly fight recently between brawling, broom-wielding monks.
It happens almost every year.
The ancient Church of the Nativity is cleaned annually by three Christian denominations — Catholics, Armenians and Greek Orthodox. Each group tidies up a section of the church and the brawling erupts when a monk from one faith starts sweeping outside of his assigned area. Palestinian security forces – anticipating the melee – rushed in to break it up.
My favorite Biblical passage quotes Jesus as saying “Take the plank out of thine own eye.” Maybe he meant ‘broom.’