The nuns knew it was a long shot when they teamed up with environmental activists to build a chapel in the path of a planned pipeline.
An energy company, which has plans to deliver the natural gas coming out of Pennsylvania's fracking fields, has the authority to take the land it needs by eminent domain, and the cornfield owned by the nuns is in the pipeline's proposed path.
But these nuns in Lancaster County, Pa., members of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, concluded that allowing a natural gas pipeline through their cornfield violated their belief in protecting the environment.
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