"What worries me most is not the sophistication of the scam, but the way it takes advantage of the kindness of religious men and women," writes Sister Helga Leija, warning about an international scam in which the perpetrators impersonate her monastery—the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica in Kansas (USA)—to request bank details from congregations around the world. "Perhaps that is why discernment is more important today than ever befo…
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"What worries me most is not the sophistication of the scam, but the way it takes advantage of the kindness of religious men and women," writes Sister Helga Leija, warning about an international scam in which the perpetrators impersonate her monastery—the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica in Kansas (USA)—to request bank details from congregations around the world. "Perhaps that is why discernment is more important today than ever befo…