Unchecked church crimes
Violating with impunity —
Bowing down and kissing rings?
Predator priests and killers of women
Editing, comment by Carolyn Bennett
Vatican reports cite countless cases of nuns forced to have sex, abort priest-caused pregnancies
Some of those victimized by priests “were obliged to take ‘the pill.’”
“Others impregnated by priests “were encouraged to have abortions.”
One case in which the nun “was forced to have an abortion, [the woman] died during the operation — her aggressor [rapist shamelessly] led the funeral mass.”
“Another case involved 29 nuns from the same congregation.” All of these women were impregnated by “priests in the diocese.”
The Catholic Church in Rome has admitted being aware that its priests living in at least “23 countries have been sexually abusing nuns.”
Most of these abuses occurred in Africa.
First, these predator-priests vowed to celibacy used prostitutes.
But that was not enough for them, so they started “[preying] on nuns to avoid contracting the AIDS virus.”
GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER
The Roman Catholic Church [and all religionists involved] let this criminal behavior happen over and over and over for years and in so doing condoned the intimidation, rape, otherwise abuse, and killing of women.
A 2001 Independent (UK) article reported, “… [In] 1998, Sister Marie McDonald, mother superior of the Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa, put together a paper entitled ‘The Problem of the Sexual Abuse of African Religious in Africa and Rome.’ [McDonald] submitted the document to the Council of 16, a group made up of delegates of the international association of women and men’s religious communities, the Vatican office responsible for religious life.…
When [McDonald] addressed bishops on the problem, many of them felt the sisters were “disloyal” to send reports.
“[McDonald] noted that a contributing cause was the ‘conspiracy of silence.’”
Sources
“Sad story out of Africa involving more apparent cover-ups by the Vatican” — The State of the Nation Midday open thread (Dante Atkins for Daily Kos), February 26, 2011, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/26/950008/-Midday-open-thread
“Vatican confirms report of sexual abuse and rape of nuns by priests in 23 countries” (Frances Kennedy in Rome), March, 21, 2001, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vatican-confirms-report-of-sexual-abuse-and-rape-of-nuns-by-priests-in-23-countries-688261.html
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