No matter what any "spiritual leader" might say. Some of her therapy was paid for by the Sisters of Mercy, Sister Mary Juanitas religious order that has its origins in 19th-century Ireland and now ministers to the poor around the world. For a minor misdemeanour, children had to kneel down and face the wall of the main corridor while nuns passed. This may be qualified in cases of alleged institutional abuse because there is sometimes a chain of corroboration. Many youths vow to never be like their parents, only to grow up and mimic the very things they hated as children. She never said, 'I'm sorry.' I was up at 5am scrubbing floors, doing laundry. She and her sisters were in Nazareth House for just 18 months - they left when their father, who regularly made the long trek across the country to see his daughters, suddenly arrived in his work clothes to take them away. The walls were in a gothic mansion called Nazareth House, an orphanage in Aberdeen where Aitken was dispatched when he was six. with all the other girls looking on. Some of these reasons include the high expectations placed on them, the fact that theyre not allowed to express their feelings, and many of them come from abusive or neglectful families. I am all right, I'm surviving. When Finnegan finally summoned up the courage to confront Sister Mary Juanita in the early 1990s more than 20 years after graduating high school in 1969 she found herself tongue-tied. "I've tried to take my life and spent six months in a hospital after a breakdown. One of the questions I have is for the Catholics of the forums. Her own efforts to challenge the hierarchy of the church have been distressing and her association with the public campaign against the Sisters enraged other members of her congregation. However, nuns arent the cruel teachers they used to be. My Grandmother has told me many stories of the evil nuns. When my grandma first went there she only spoke her native language, she spoke no english at all. Just because you are married doesn't mean you don't find another person attractive or have great chemistry with someone. Sheriff Colin Harris ordered that several other charges be rejected and said that he would only admonish, rather than imprison, her because of her age and her health. So we sat on the sheet to dry it - we were only children. Now, decades later, more than 500 former inmates are suing the nuns for damages. 5 Top The Silver Thong Member 33.4k FOR Vera Willshire, who is now 75, the year 1939 was one of the happiest of her life. Her father took the child to the local priest "to explain what he'd discovered and how angry he was for his children, but the priest never took it up". In her 2014 memoir, Split: A Child, a Priest and the Catholic Church, Dispenza details the sexual abuse she endured at the hands of a Catholic priest in the gritty East Los Angeles neighborhood where she grew up. If they see other nuns being cruel, they may think its okay to act the same way. The nuns would help deliver the babies, who would then be brought up elsewhere until they could be adopted. No matter what any "spiritual leader" might say. So now comes the question. When finally a key was found, they went in: the room was almost as he had left it, and behind a plywood panel there were his childhood documents, exactly as he had predicted. The group refused to put the issue on the agendas of their annual meetings, Dispenza told The Post. Neither woman could understand why there was so much cruelty, with Mary saying: "They were nuns and educated and took up their vocation to go in there for prayer and looking after us. He remembers Nazareth House as dour and cruel. Nuns used to be cruel; that much is true. "Wetting the bed was a nightmare - they'd strip the covers off and the child would be made to stand with the wet sheets for hours, to set an example. "I remember being told repeatedly by the nuns that I had been put there because I was naughty and because my family did not want me. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Silence sometimes is a kind of defense which allows victims to hide from the pain (for a while).. All we want is for the Catholic church to change its ways and let us live in peace. I was terrified the whole time and never had a happy day there. I've never found it easy forming relationships and had periods when I've had to go to hospital and had all sorts of problems.". So far, the Poor Sisters of Nazareth have refused to comment, but it is believed that the allegations will be contested vigorously. She, too, remembers the nuns' nocturnal inspections. IN THE early Seventies, six-year-old Simon Taylor (not his real name) was admitted to Nazareth House in Middlesbrough after his mother had a nervous breakdown. Sometimes companions simply disappeared. My mother went to Catholic school as a child back in the 1950's. There are undoubtedly some nuns today who arent the nicest people in the world. He told a teacher about his embarrassment and she suggested that he could go into any church. Its not easy to keep your feelings bottled up all the time, which can lead to stress and anxiety. "I was spat on. Nothing. The survivors have to get past the argument that the religious orders merely delivered the discipline that was standardised, sanctioned and universal in those days. Wrong.. Victims now have until age 55 to file civil suits and can press for criminal charges until age 28. ", Her younger sister has never forgotten that day: she could scarcely swim, but managed to grasp a long log. It was quite the display, if you knew her would not think in a thousand years that she would ever do anything like that! This can lead to nuns being quite resentful toward Mothers. By using this site you consent to our use of cookies as per our, People who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. Last week, New York opened up a window for old cases with the passage of the Child Victims Act. She will not describe in any detail how she was raped. Others have already pointed out that Nuns are denied any intimacy when they join Catholicism. "My sister and her friend Betsy Owens were playing with a beach ball. One of the nuns said: 'You watch you don't get blood on your dress or you'll catch it.' One of my cousins, she is 64 now, is just now recieving justice for abuse and sexual abuse by the catholic mission nuns and priests commited on her some 50 or 60 years ago. Nuns with leather straps hanging from their waist beside their rosary beads. That is why I want to take them to court.". His childhood memories of the orphanage are filled with emotional and physical terror. But theres an expectation for nuns to dress modestly at all times. First off I'd change that to SOME nuns, not all. There is an exception, of course, for when Nuns Are Mikos. But by and large, theyre much nicer than they used to be. Learn more. Maybe you started to believe it. But there was worse to come. I was in bed by 7pm and they used to check you were asleep with your hands across your chest. I spent a lot of time scrubbing floors or cleaning shoes. A man who came in as a volunteer to help bath the kids started molesting me in the bath and in the toilets.". One of them, dated Sunday April 2, 1967, pledges: "I will keep these promises seen here." "This isn't revenge against the Catholic church, we just want them to come out of denial. I felt she took relish out of that. I wonder what makes them so mean? It seems that, she, like Betsy Owens, might never have existed. ", Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Dispenza, who spent 15 years in a habit before becoming an activist against the Catholic Church, is bracing for an onslaught of cases against nuns, who typically run schools and orphanages, and spend exponentially more time with children than priests do. Nuns are often women who don't have much (if any) maternal instinct - To enter a life where you not only aren't supposed to have sex with anyone else but where you also cannot bear children of your own requires a person who has limited amounts of maternal instinct for them to be successful. It is also a powerful order across the world, and its published accounts show it is worth pounds 154m. And, like all of those involved in the civil action, she wants to have her story heard. In the 1960s, when he was in his 30s, he sought help. After we pray, we shake hands, but one woman refused and said I was bringing the church down. The retired telephonist has never forgotten the summer of 1955 when the children of Cardonald Nazareth House in Glasgow went to Aberdeen on an exchange. This can lead to a lot of unresolved issues, and these issues can eventually turn into anger and resentment. Then there were all these flashbacks." One of these burst and burnt my foot badly, leaving a permanent scar. ", Other inmates have similar memories. He has unearthed state archives revealing many complaints about cruelty and inspectors' concerns about "dangerous and undesirable punishment". It broke her heart." If you did it wrong, you got a clip." Archbishop Mario Conti, Scotland's most senior Catholic churchman, has accused the former Nazareth House inmates of being seekers not of justice but of "pots of gold". It makes perfect sense that some would take their emotions out on others. But it didn't stop the man coming in." In most movies, nuns are seen as strange recluses from society. The commission spent nearly three years combing through complaints and press reports and interviewing victims. It was voiced at the highest level last year when the reforming Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, claimed that many convictions of people accused of abusing children in institutional care were flawed and that the law was in need of review. I don't need financial help. ", In the pre- and post-war period, orphans were often sent to homes run by religious orders, such as the Sisters of Nazareth. I'd have left you you're just Glasgow tinks.' Then, in March, a shocking report was published into allegations of abuse and brutality at one of the order's homes in Queensland, Australia, over a 90-year period ending only in 1976. I remember we all did not want to leave the home in Brecon because the nuns there were so kind. Dispenza, 78, has fought for more than two decades for justice for victims of clergy abuse and plans to take her fight to the Vatican on Monday. I thought bugger that, I'm saying my piece.". "We were taken to the beach, it was so grey and wild and windy, we were frozen." 1.Why do Catholic nuns have a reputation for being cruel and abusive Author: www.quora.com Post date: 2 yesterday Rating: 5 (1678 reviews) Highest rating: 3 Low rated: 3 Summary: They were allowed to commit their crimes because as a religious order they were not subject to scrutiny. He said, 'Pray for him my son.' By Another inmate, Helen Cusiter, returned to Nazareth House six or seven years ago, to visit a woman who was working there. The. The Poor Sisters of Nazareth were founded in the mid-19th century in Hammersmith, London, to take care of the young and the old. "Bedwetting was about the worst thing you could do. Well, I don't think that humans are meant to live without any intimacy; physical or emotional. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. (11 Reasons Why), Why Are Harleys So Expensive? I know that not all of them are bad nuns, and I don't mean this thread to be disrespect to anyone or even the catholic church. He is never surprised by attempts to discredit people like himself. Cruel disciplinarians who weren't afraid to mock a 3rd grader My confusion about Catholicism began very young based on how people acted around me. Its crucial for nuns to be aware of this and to try to break the cycle. But there is good news in all of this. Jean Guerrier, like her sister, Vera Willshire, recalls the regime at the Nazareth House in Middlesbrough as unrelentingly brutal and frightening. I'll also never forget her abject cruelty. He told me he'd been sexually abused by a priest. "Looking back, I think they really despised the children. So I guess if someone can tell me why they are so mean and abusive that would be nice. These days the nuns look after old people. I hope your not suggesting any of my post isn't true? Gmail You believe the bibles the word of god? The girls were told to change into their swimsuits while the nuns huddled together in a beach hut. This embarrassed both church and state in the 1940s. And the Poor Sisters aren't poor (the order has 154m in the bank) - they've been rebranded and they're simply Sisters. This can lead to nuns being quite resentful toward Mothers. "The nuns would take off the belt and just hit you with it. Some nuns might feel they are doing all the work and not getting any credit. He was brought up in Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark, run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul. In the words of one man who had been put into a home after being abandoned by his family: "Some people say to me, 'Well, that's what it was like everywhere then', but it wasn't. Thank God they chose the nuns. Bob Marley, "We went to explore the Moon & discovered the Earth" Gene Cernan. There was church every day of the week. She had worried about what had happened for years. It was born out of a fascination with the women who choose . Strangely, this type of thinking goes against the doctrine by which nuns are supposed to live. She hated children and was always hitting us with a cricket stump she carried around. Finally, they will have a chance at justice, she said. Its no wonder nuns can be so cruel. In 1981, the school became the co-ed St. Johns Prep. Boil until it thickens, add a cup of new milk, turn into a double boiler, and cook again for twenty or thirty minutes. I went to a strict local school and the belt was used frequently, but nothing like on the same scale that the nuns used to beat us. The Sisters of Mercy taught the girls at her high school; the boys were taught by the Christian Brothers. More than 14 percent of nuns have been sexually abused themselves, said Finnegan. "You woke up to this thrashing. "He sat, feet on the table, and said there were several options. It was bad enough in Newcastle, but after the war broke out we were moved to Carlisle where it was much more cruel. "I was passed to the child abuse unit at the age of 39." See more. "Sister Alphonso didn't use leather straps, she used her fists, she had some strength." Nuns used crucifixes to rape little girls or forced boys to have sex with them, too. It gives a good idea of the standard of care. Think for example of other people in committed relationships. "The real meaning of 'dirt' was sexual abuse," Currie says, "I felt dirty. I saw it.". It's their power mania. Its this unattended rage they live with. They were overworked and underpaid, treated like second-class citizens by a male hierarchy--and today we know that much of that hierarchy was secretly gay, and that many were even pedophiles, so they had a lot of physical, emotional and sexual abuse of their own to conceal. "But girls were beaten every day. i think they just really need to get laid, Damn nuns I don't think I have ever met a nun but damn them anyway errrrr. Although nuns acting mean is mostly history, the stigma remains in many peoples minds. Not once did the nuns ask why I was off school or what was wrong with me. January 22, 2011 in Spirituality, Religion and Beliefs. She and her group are demanding the pope help victims of nun abuse and fire anyone who has covered up crimes by Catholic clergy. Joseph had been left alone in verminous conditions. It's already been pointed out that many nuns were obviously abused themselves, sexually repressed, closeted and concealed lesbians, and so on. Currie had likened some of his childhood documents to a diary, but the archbishop insists, "only three sheets of paper were found, two containing aspirations Joseph had listed for himself and the other listing the timing of the Benny Hill show on TV". My time there has deeply affected my life. Her days and nights were haunted. ", She is outraged by suggestions that her motivation is securing compensation. Never has been and never will be. All of these concern allegations of ill-treatment after 1964. "I had a panic attack - I thought I was having a heart attack. 1. Most people would flinch from having to torture another human being, mainly because when we inflict harm on others, we share some of that pain (Credit: Alamy) Everyday sadists get pleasure from . The woman owned me.. There were separate quarters for boys and girls, and the siblings were allowed no communication, though they would see each other across a crowded church on Sundays and on the school bus. ", The Edinburgh lawyer representing Nazareth House, Dr Pamela Abernathy, insists, "No one still alive who was intimately connected with Nazareth House at the time has any recollection of such an incident, nor are there any records of the death of any child during that period.". Iam writting a family book about our family from as far back as I can go. It can also lead to nuns lashing out at others due to their discomfort. "More than 14 percent of nuns have been sexually abused themselves," said Finnegan. Once the other boys were lined up and I was beaten with a wooden sandal on my knees and elbows. That being said, they feel unhappy with their lives and they believe that someone else has to pay the consequences. First off I'd change that to SOME nuns, not all. Sign up for a new account in our community. The children were beaten regularly and the nuns were never really nice to them. "One cold winter's morning at about 6.30, when I was about 11, I was kneeling in church saying my prayers when I sneezed. The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration are a . What if I ended up in Nazareth House as an old person?" Its not easy to grow up in an abusive or neglectful home, which can lead to trauma and emotional damage. I froze and became that 15-year-old kid again, she said. They are with kids at school every day from 9 to 3, she said. Nobody wanted to hear about the Vestal Virgins back then, she said. There was no record of Betsy after that incident, nothing. The whole concept is flawed from the get-go. I have seen programs about nuns and most of those show a wonderfull helpful loving nun who just loves the whole world. The nuns were terrible.". Some nuns are just following the example set by other nuns. I often. "My feet were so badly swollen I was kept off school for three days and two other girls had to join hands to carry me up and down the stairs. Imagine trying to be perfect all the time. i may have exaggerated a little. Cusiter was eight when her mother disappeared and she and her five brothers and sisters were taken from Glasgow to Aberdeen's Nazareth House. Sister Mary Juanita Barto and Cait Finnegan in high school, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Judge shoots down Trumps bid to delay E. Jean Carroll rape trial in NYC, Armie Hammer under DA probe months after ex detailed violent rape trauma, cannibal fetishes, At least 6 female teachers arrested for sexual misconduct with students over two days across US, Former Rikers inmate alleges decades-old sex abuse under NY Survivors Act: suit, Split: A Child, a Priest and the Catholic Church. If that fails, Fyfe intends to take the challenge to the European Court of Human Rights. It is a Christian duty, for your greater glory, not theirs. Only my opinion of course, but I'd blame it on a lack of physical and emotional shenanigans with members of the opposite sex. No prayers. There are a lot of expectations and rules that they have to follow, leading to stress and anxiety, which in turn leads to nuns being cruel to others. There is still never a day when my sister does not fear being punished for something. She lived at Nazareth House homes in Newcastle and Carlisle until she was 13, in 1944. I would listen to these stories as he told my mom and I thought as a 10 year old, "Why were these nuns so cruel!". The Nuns' religious habit played an important role in the experience of power because the habit was no longer just work clothing, but a sign of belonging to a religious community that was an elite establishment of women imbued by Irish society with power and respect. She was eight. An official inquiry has found that Sisters of Nazareth nuns subjected children to vicious abuse, humiliation and at times sexual assault of "utmost depravity". What often makes detection of childhood abuse difficult for the police is that it's an adult's word against a child's, and there often isn't any surviving physical evidence (a sign, say the sceptics, that abuse didn't happen or that it didn't cause any harm). Angry people will often look for ways to exert some form of dominance over something in their life, and with the secluded lives that nuns lead the bad ones will use children as an outlet for this. "When I left [the Cardiff home] at 18 I was just handed a suitcase with hardly anything in it and shown the door. One of them was my sister. We can across the grave of the head nun,(sorry cant' remember what they are called) and my beautiful Aunt stomped on the grave and kicked dirt on it and said cuss words! Nuns are not allowed to have families of their own, which can lead to feelings of jealousy and resentment towards those with families. It was just the routine.". The stories I have heard just make me cry. She was three or four years old. But today, many of those who were in the sisters' care have come forward to claim that, behind the locked doors of Nazareth House (all the homes had this name), the nuns maintained a ruthless regime. Nuns can be cruel for a variety of reasons. I have not found many "nice" stories about nuns. Today I have all the soft cuddly toys I want, a room full of them. "I left when I was 13 with a terrible stammer that I am sure must have been because of living in fear of the nuns. Professor Grundy reserved his most scathing words for the police forces and bureaucrats, who he said may have known what was going on but did nothing to stop it. Even then Aitken was shadowed by unhappiness. But trying to be perfect always is enough to make anyone go a little crazy. Rocketgirl33, This woman wouldn't say sh** if she had a mouth full. I am just wondering why. Cases are being compiled in England, too, though there seems to be some reluctance to prosecute physical abuse. An aunt who came to visit was told I was confined with an infection. A nun all of a sudden picked the kid up, carried him to the door, then slammed the door into his head. Unexplained-Mysteries.com I don't think my grandma knew exactly what he was sick with but she told me that the Nuns had NO empathy for a sick child. "They'd come round the beds and make sure you were in the right position - flat on your back with arms crossed out of the covers (otherwise you'd be touching yourself). Terrified, I remember holding out my hand thinking an adult would take it. The military and emergency services found those abandoned, bereaved children attractive recruits because, though they lacked education, they knew how to iron their shirts, polish their shoes and obey orders. Though it was three miles away and there was a school bus, we were only given enough money to make the journey once a day, so depending on the weather we'd take it in the morning or afternoon. Finnegan said she has suffered PTSD and anxiety for most of her adult life and has turned to prayer and research on sexual abuse to try to forgive what was done to her. They were always calling us guttersnipes or scavengers and seemed to enjoy humiliating us. Dozens of former residents of homes in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Midlothian and Kilmarnock claimed they had suffered vicious beatings and sexual abuse. Are they all mean? Helen's younger brother grew up a distressed, drifting young man. That was in 1996. At one time, the training nuns received was outdated and very harsh. In my school the nuns, well a few of them were mean. "I just want it out of my mind." There are 55,944 nuns in the US and 41,406 priests, according to statistics compiled by SNAP. The stigma that nuns are cruel is somewhat of a misnomer. Eight years ago, when a handful of victims of nun abuse came forward to SNAP, Dispenza urged the Chicago-based Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an association of the leaders of congregations of Catholic nuns, to address the issue and reach out to victims of nun abuse. He wasn't prepared to accept that it was the truth. our nuns would cut a finger off if you were late for class, some kids only had thumbs, we had to learn a new word every day if you couldn't pronounce it the nun would set about you with a baseball bat, on the day we had to learn Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ten kids got killed, we slept outside on the grass, in the winters we covered ourselves with cowpats (dung) to keep warm, we had turnips for breakfast lunch and dinner, but on sundays we had a real treat for dinner, the turnip was cooked, my aunt on visiting stalag sacred cross found the grave of the mother superior and dug her up, she then used her skull as a toilet, but she was a dirty cursing perverted old b**** herself. FLOUR GRUEL. Thomas Paine, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw. It seems logical that a person suffering from not being a part of normal life, ie:love, sex, child birth ect ect.. would harbor lots of ill will twords those who cannot help themselves. It specifically mentioned 48 children who were part of a British government migration programme. "Some would smack you as they came by. The one thing that I have found from talking to them and from past stories they have told me before they died was the Nuns of the Caotholic Missions were always mean and abusive to the children. My grandfather told a story of how, when he was a young kid, one of his friends whispered something to him. why doesn't vanderbilt have a volleyball team; kreslenie ceruzkou portrety. You think your nuns were bad? What gives? No one would believe how bad it was. The priest to whom he made his confession, he says, was Father Conti. Narcissistic people may also be quick to anger or lash out at others, which can make them seem mean. 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