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  • 2016-01-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Is This the Vatican Women's Rifle Team? (en)
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  • A photograph purportedly showing a group of nuns holding guns has been circulated online for several years, along with the claim that it depicts the Vatican Women's Rifle Team: The earliest iteration of the above-displayed claim that we have been able to uncover came from the humor web site BlandX. That web site also claimed that the Vatican Women's Rifle Team participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin: There was no truth to these claims. In addition to the presence of contrary factual evidence (the Vatican did not participate at the 1936 Olympics), they can be dismissed through their source: BlandX is a humor web site that bills itself as being the culmination of a long chain of bad jokes. The same article reporting that the Vatican had a women's rifle team at the 1936 Olympics also said that two women from Hungary took silver in the (fictional) Pairs Barrel Tossing event: We were unable to locate the original source of the barrel-tossing photo, but there was no such event at the Olympics in 1936, nor in any other Olympic competition. However, while the claim that the Vatican had a women's rifle team at the 1936 Olympics is false, the nuns with guns image appears to be real. While we have not been able to locate the specific source of the image, it was most likely taken in 1957 at Camp Mishannock in Massachusetts, as a photograph from Corbis Images entitled Row of Nuns Aiming Rifles appears to show the same group of nuns: (en)
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