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Thread ID: 18263 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-05-16
2005-05-16 05:29 | User Profile
Nun abuse
Most kids who went to a catholic school have stories about 'the nuns.'
Now a story that is for the most part untold.
Allegations that some of those nuns sexually abused children.
The story starts in southern Minnesota. The buildingt sits so stately in the small town of Frontenac and has such a pretty name. Villa Maria. Mary Dunford left home to live there when it was a boarding school run by the Ursuline Nuns.
She told us, "They had quite an emphasis on education and lot of religion and discipline."
Young girls respected the Sisters dressed in their black habits.
What Mary Dunford didn't expect was the darkness she'd find inside one of those habits.
Dunford explained, "She would come into my room every night after the other girls had been in bed. And she would take off her upper clothing down to her waist and then she would kiss me on the mouth a lot and tell me she loved me and pull me to her breasts. At the time Dunford thought she was having an affair with a Catholic nun.
Steve Theisen thought he was too while he attended Sacred Heart Catholic school in Dubuque, Iowa.
Theisen said, "Here's a young, just a nine year old kid, thinking he's committed the greatest sin in the world by fooling around with the wife of Jesus."
Theisen describes his experience. "She showed me how the Americans kiss by kissing me on the lips, standing by her desk. After that she said I'll show you how the French kissed. Then she had her tongue in my mouth."
Steve and Mary are now adults. It took years but both now realize a nun sexually abused them. They're not alone.
Our investigation found cases across the country. Among them:
Boston: nine students claim they were sexually molested by the nuns who ran a school for the deaf.
Tucson: a woman says she was turned into a sex slave at a convent.
And in Kentucky, two dozen people are suing, claiming the sisters molested them at an orphanage.
Dunford says, "It's time for all of us to get together and see that we receive acknowledgement, apologies and some restorative justice."
Mary and Dan are frustrated that nun abuse has not gotten the same attention as the priest abuse scandal.
But Sister Beatrice Eichten said, "Our sense at this point is it's not a major problem, in the sense that it's a huge hidden problem."
Sister Eichten is Vice President of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious which represents orders of sisters across the country. She doesn't think nun abuse is a big problem, but she admits no one really knows. She said, "We don't really try to gather a lot of data."
To ease the pain Mary writes about what happened, saying about the nun who abused her: 'like a vulture you circled the skies above the Villa, and dove down upon any fragile creature you hungered for.'
The leadership conference tells us it's up to individual religious orders to reach out to victims. The ursuline order which ran villa maria says it paid for counseling for mary and returned a tuition check. Mary says it's too little, too late.
Dunford is willing to take calls from those victimized by nuns. You can reach her at 651-731-0315. [email="Danjdun@aol.com"]Danjdun@aol.com[/email]
To learn more about abuse by all clergy go to [url="http://www.snapnetwork.org/"]www.snapnetwork.org[/url]
2005-05-16 06:57 | User Profile
A notable proportion of modern priests and nuns existing in our apocalyptic civilization are unfortunate weaklings and degenerates and probably should be executed. In the Age of the Wolf the corruption of the best is the worst corruption. In no way does perversion of the office demonstrate the nullity of the office. A society without adequate encasted religious leadership is acephalous and self-abortive, and will enslave itself to false surrogates and nihilistic idolatries; for, as Schopenhauer has demonstrated, Man is the Metaphysical Animal, and Jesus has told us, Man does not live by bread alone. Even Hitler recognized this: "Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith."
2005-05-17 15:00 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Esoterist]A notable proportion of modern priests and nuns existing in our apocalyptic civilization are unfortunate weaklings and degenerates and probably should be executed. In the Age of the Wolf the corruption of the best is the worst corruption. In no way does perversion of the office demonstrate the nullity of the office. A society without adequate encasted religious leadership is acephalous and self-abortive, and will enslave itself to false surrogates and nihilistic idolatries; for, as Schopenhauer has demonstrated, Man is the Metaphysical Animal, and Jesus has told us, Man does not live by bread alone. Even Hitler recognized this: "Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith."[/QUOTE] I'll remember to quote Hitler to the school board the next time that school prayer comes up down here in the heavily Catholic Nueces Strip.
Not.:blow:
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