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Handy guide to Vatican investigation of women religious
by Dennis Coday on Aug. 10, 2009
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PDF versionVatican, U.S. women religious tensions go back decades A timeline
U.S. women religious leadership, at the crossroads Analysis by Ken Briggs, author a the book, Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church’s Betrayal of American Nuns.
Printer-friendly versionSend to friendPDF versionThe Leadership Conference of Women Religious, umbrella organization for most U.S. women religious, opens their annual convocation tomorrow in New Orleans. NCR editor Tom Fox is there to give us on the ground reports. Check this web site regularly for updates.
The meeting is of special interest this year because the conference and its membership are facing two investigations by the Vatican. It's a story NCR has been reporting since it broke in January. Here's a handy guide to NCR reporting and commentary:
News reports:
Women religious study to include 'soundness of doctrine' Report on the Instrumentum Laboris, or "working paper," which explains in greater detail the focus of the Apostolic Visitation.
Vatican begins study of US women religious NCR's first report on this topic, dated January 30, 2009.
Vatican women religious study outlined Additional reporting by John L Allen Jr dated Feb. 3, 2009.
Vatican investigates U.S. women religious leadership An April 14, 2009 story about a separate investigation of the LCWR.
U.S. women religious study raising new concerns An updated from June 4, 2009
Some commentaries:
'We did what the church asked us to do' By Dominican Sr. Anne Marie Mongoven
Sisters delivered the church Vatican II promised An NCR editorial
We've given birth to a new form of religious life by Sr. Sandra M. Schneiders
I pray that they have the
I pray that they have the good manners to invite Mother Mary Clare Millea. God bless all concerned! Thank Christ Jesus-God come in the flesh for all Religious! A true gift of God and a witness to the world! Alleluia!
I was physically abused by
I was physically abused by nuns in grade school, sexually abused by one nun in high school and sexually harrassed by one nun (another one) while I was a seminarian at St Charles Borromeo in Philadelphia. Later, after I left seminary and attended college at Mt St Mary's in Emmitsburg, MD I was propositioned and suffered a drunken attempt by a priest to grope me...it went nowhere. I was drunk, but not THAT drunk! I know all too well about this stuff.
Nuns, unfortunately, are treated with great indulgence that is harmful to those of us who they abused. They are adults. If they abused children they need to be held accountable. This sentimental tripe that people write about nuns is harmful, unfair to those of us whom they abused and just generally unrealistic and sentimental nonsense. They abused children on a massive scale. EVERYONE makes a joke about a nun using a ruler on a child. Why is that? Did that come out of thin air?
Nuns need to be investigated for their crimes just as vigorously as priests have been investigated. IT MUST BE DONE.
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