But theres an expectation for nuns to dress modestly at all times. Everything in his flat is neatly arranged - his shoes, his clothes, his videos, his crockery, his correspondence. "You were thrashed about the feet, head and hands, you had your hair pulled and your head bounced off the walls. Eventually, four years after her encounter with Sister Alphonso, she went to a solicitor. I froze and became that 15-year-old kid again, she said. "We've had a lifetime of being accused of being liars and cheats, searching for a pot of gold." Some people can be cruel for many reasons. But, back in the day, this is how nuns were taught, and its no wonder they turned out to be so cruel. 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. 'sparing the rod' has nothing to do with punishment ..the rod mentioned in the bible was from the early times of agriculture & farming ..the oxes that pull the plough in order to stay on a straight line had the person with a long stick (called a rod) ..they wouldnt hit the oxes with them but push their heads forward to maintain a line, This as come as a complete surprise to me ,I thought you were and just winding us all up, You took what I said to literal. NEW YORKAs a growing number of Roman Catholic dioceses across the United States investigate child sex-abuse claims against clergy and are releasing the names of priests accused of such crimes, another hidden problem has begun to surfacenuns who sexually abuse children. What is it that makes these Nuns so down right nasty mean? I think that's the way many of them were trained, in a very authoritarian church. There are times when its hot outside, and the last thing you want to do is dress in heavy clothing. She was sent to the orphanage, with her brother, when she was five - her grandmother had just died, her mother had left, and her father felt he could not take care of the children. The punishment was being forced to stand in front of a nun's cell with the soiled linen on your head or being sat in the galvanized steel bath while two assistants poured buckets of cold water over your head. The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration are a . They'd lift the covers to see if your bed was wet. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Why Do Teachers Hate Gum? My grandmother was 3 years old when she was first brought to the mission. "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst." One of the heart-rending storylines of Paramount+'s Western series '1923' revolves around Teonna Rainwater, a Native American girl who gets tortured in a Catholic boarding school. 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. Many nuns produced religious literature and music, the most famous amongst these authors being the 12th century CE abbess Hildegard of Bingen. Orphans, abandoned babies and children deemed uncontrollable or accused of petty crimes were all put in the hands of the nuns who, to the outside world, epitomised kindness and compassion. There was real hate there. "After a real struggle, we have persuaded the legal aid board to support 11 test cases," says Fyfe. It is also a powerful order across the world, and its published accounts show it is worth pounds 154m. Nuns with leather straps hanging from their waist beside their rosary beads. "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). They did so because they wanted to jealously safeguard the gold standard for all children, a stable home run by their mothers and fathers. These emotions can eventually turn into anger and resentment. "You couldn't talk to the nuns in a jokey or friendly way. My Father's Story on the Nuns and Priests. This is not the work of an obsessive, he says, just typical of an orphan. Vera lived at the home with her two sisters from the age of six months until she was 17 years old. Nuns took vows of chastity, renounced worldly goods and devoted themselves to prayer, religious studies and helping society's most needy. The group has heard from 35 people in the last several days who claim they were physically and sexually abused by nuns, said Dispenza, a former nun who claims she was abused as a young girl by both a priest and a nun. Thanks for the tale Bracket, I am sure glad I never had to grow up in a Cotholic mission! One that stands out is the story of a boy who had become very ill. It was only later I realised that you didn't bruise so badly there. 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. It was work, work, work. Eventually I was rescued by a small boat, but it was terrifying." with all the other girls looking on. Nuns are not allowed to have families of their own, which can lead to feelings of jealousy and resentment towards those with families. Boil until it thickens, add a cup of new milk, turn into a double boiler, and cook again for twenty or thirty minutes. She had worried about what had happened for years. Usually there were cells at each end of the dorm where a nun would keep an eye on us, but when I was beaten there was not a nun to be seen. Yet another was scarred after being scalded by a nun who accused her of not using enough hot water when washing. ), it wouldn't be hard to, Couple a sadistic personality and a whole lot of pent up sexual frustration.yeah anybody would go psycho. He has unearthed state archives revealing many complaints about cruelty and inspectors' concerns about "dangerous and undesirable punishment". She hated children and was always hitting us with a cricket stump she carried around. Gruel definition, a light, usually thin, cooked cereal made by boiling meal, especially oatmeal, in water or milk. I think the average age for priests and nuns in the US today is like 70. 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. The abuse began when Finnegan was 15 and continued throughout her high school years on school buses to out-of-town sporting events, at religious retreats in upstate New York, at Finnegans childhood home in Woodside and at a Long Island convent. The Sisters of Nazareth lawyer, Dr Abernathy, points out that Nazareth Houses were overseen by local authorities and by the government. She became imprisoned in the safety of her own home. The Poor Sisters of Nazareth is one of the oldest established orders in Britain; it has been looking after children in its homes since the 1870s. "Violence was an intrinsic part of the culture of these institutions," O'Sullivan says; they were committed to the "destruction of will". Nuns should strive to serve their Lord and Savior as best they can. There is the cruel nun (The Magdalene Sisters), the anti-fun nun (Sound of Music) . Then there were all these flashbacks." Well, I don't think that humans are meant to live without any intimacy; physical or emotional. Celibacy is NOT normal for humans. Nuns can be cruel for a variety of reasons. January 22, 2011 in Spirituality, Religion and Beliefs. 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. Finally, they will have a chance at justice, she said. I felt she took relish out of that. Despite the childhood rapes by the priest who was trusted by her family Dispenza decided to become a nun, only to be faced with similar abuse from a superior sister while she was a novitiate. He was brought up in Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark, run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul. why doesn't vanderbilt have a volleyball team; kreslenie ceruzkou portrety. Nuns used to be cruel; that much is true. [.] Its not easy to grow up in an abusive or neglectful home, which can lead to trauma and emotional damage. 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. Golda Meir, One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain. She was wacked in the hand a lot with a ruler. The nun would roll her sleeves up, so she got a real good whack. He had lost his family, and letters from his siblings and his mother were never given to him. I thought bugger that, I'm saying my piece.". 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. Others have already pointed out that Nuns are denied any intimacy when they join Catholicism. I was up at 5am scrubbing floors, doing laundry. Nuns could be jealous of the attention that Catholic Mothers get. well practise what you preach, "He who is without sin." you should know the rest, but then again i'm not to sure you do? Beatrix Campbell reports, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Cases are being compiled in England, too, though there seems to be some reluctance to prosecute physical abuse. I remember being made to sit in a cold bath. When the child was taken to the dentist, he asked, "What's all this bruising?" Silence sometimes is a kind of defense which allows victims to hide from the pain (for a while).. More than 14 percent of nuns have been sexually abused themselves, said Finnegan. Cameron Fyfe says there's no great problem of proof in this case: individuals who have not seen each other for years, who may scarcely remember each other, are corroborating each other's narratives. She points out that "15 members of my group have taken their own lives. Cusiter recalls a particular incident when Sister Alphonso came for her while she was playing on swings. Instead she decided to go to the police. They're at the annual bash of the contest's fan club. Awesome teachers and kind OR 2. I was clothed, fed, paid a weekly wage. Are just some of them mean? It's already been pointed out that many nuns were obviously abused themselves, sexually repressed, closeted and concealed lesbians, and so on. Police are also investigating after lawyers representing former residents passed on relevant files. I remember we all did not want to leave the home in Brecon because the nuns there were so kind. She has never consulted lawyers, nor sought compensation from the church. He told me he'd been sexually abused by a priest. Once I was beaten black and blue, so badly I had to stay in the infirmary for five weeks, and when I came out I was given a bag of sweets and told to tell no one about what happened. Nuns indeed put in a lot of hard work. We were just miserable people, that was all. But that walk beside his old home provoked a rush of recollections. To this day, she doesn't know what had so alarmed him - all visits were patrolled by nuns who remained in the room, like sentries. I didn't know the underscore wasn't mandatory for usernames before I came to these forums. Kathleen Batey, a 47-year-old cleaner living near Newcastle United Football Club's mighty stadium, is not one of the campaigners seeking legal redress. They would just use anything that came to hand. It can also lead to nuns acting out in ways that are considered cruel. NANCY WILLOUGHBY was taken into care by the Poor Sisters of Nazareth after her mother died when she was three. I thought maybe he'd do something about it. Finnegan, a widow whose husband was a former Catholic priest, now lives in Pennsylvania, where she has run a group home for needy children and is the minister of the Celtic Christian Church. I have seen programs about nuns and most of those show a wonderfull helpful loving nun who just loves the whole world. The girls were told to change into their swimsuits while the nuns huddled together in a beach hut. It was born out of a fascination with the women who choose . Before pushing me in the nuns told me there was a mouse in there and I went totally hysterical. If they see other nuns being cruel, they may think its okay to act the same way. So, its no wonder nuns can be so cruel. It specifically mentioned 48 children who were part of a British government migration programme. ", Other inmates have similar memories. One of the questions I have is for the Catholics of the forums. 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. 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. ", Docherty, too, has joined the action against the Daughters of Charity and the Sisters of Nazareth. In those days the people were encouraged to bring their children to the mission to be schooled by the church and they children all lived there. I think my time there has left deep scars. You'd hear their footsteps but you didn't know who they were. I believe its what turns so many of them into nasty bitches in the convent.. "There were two slices of bread and dripping for breakfast, a ladle of soup at dinner and two more slices of bread and dripping in the evening. They know what a 'broken heart' feels like and the betrayal that goes with it. This can lead to a cycle of cruelty thats hard to break. The Nazareth House children face another difficulty: the time bar. Why Are Nuns So Cruel? ", 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.". But there is good news in all of this. Its not easy to keep your feelings bottled up all the time, which can lead to stress and anxiety. 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. 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. And thats a good thing for everyone involved. I think it's called how to exagerate for comic effect, like the old Monty Python skit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw, You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. He told a teacher about his embarrassment and she suggested that he could go into any church. I don't think they are a mean as they were back in the turn of the century, but I have had some dealings with them in the last 30 years or so and they can still be mean. If you were scrubbing the floor and looked up you could get a whack over the head or even be kneed in the face. My aunt said I never stammered before I went there. Finally, he took his own life. "The dormitory would sleep 12. I hear stories about the nuns from non family members too and not many people have "Found memories" of their days with the nuns. Never has been and never will be. It seems that, she, like Betsy Owens, might never have existed. The children didn't speak about what had happened, "none of us did, believe it or not". (11 Reasons Why). Its the line from Scripture that stayed with Cait Finnegan for nearly half a century as she tried to suppress the painful memories of the sexual abuse she says she suffered at the hands of her Catholic clergy educator. We rose at 5am, did the cleaning chores, then got dressed, got breakfast and then went to school. Nuns indeed put in a lot of hard work. Thankfully, those methods have changed, and nuns are now taught with more compassion. Some nuns are just following the example set by other nuns. I'd come out and all the other boys would be laughing." Now the Sisters of Nazareth - the order also has houses in Australia, South Africa, the United States and Ireland - are the subject of an international campaign to call them to account for a regime of violence. So I guess if someone can tell me why they are so mean and abusive that would be nice. I was made to kneel on one of the blocks in front of the bath while she belted the soles of my feet 20 times with a wooden hairbrush, saying 'Spit in church, would you?' So we swapped our sheets for her, rinsed the wet one out and went to dry it on the radiator. "We were taken to the beach, it was so grey and wild and windy, we were frozen." I felt terrible all over again.". This woman wouldn't say sh** if she had a mouth full. Many of these unfortunate children suffered consequential emotional disturbance, and some of them no other institutions would accept. My time there has deeply affected my life. I believe it was that they treated indigenous people like savages that werent even worthy of owning their own land ..ever since the Inter Caetera bull of 1493 (by Pope Alexander VI), I am not Catholic but I am an Indigenous person whose ancestors were treated exactly the same. "One of the worst things that ever happened to me was being locked in a cupboard as a punishment. She asked, 'What do you remember about your childhood?' The Irish Examiner newspaper, which has investigated the finances of the religious orders involved in running the laundries, says they owned assets in 2012 of 1.5bn euros ($1.9bn, 1.2bn). i may have exaggerated a little. What gives? Powered by Invision Community, Unexplained-Mysteries.com uses cookies. Now, decades later, more than 500 former inmates are suing the nuns for damages. I'd have left you you're just Glasgow tinks.' It was a dreadful experience and I will never forget it. "Ruthless and sadistic madness on the part of least some of the nuns and a depthless depravity on the part of some of the men are the defining characteristics of at least some of those who ran the orphanage," wrote Professor Grundy. 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. Currie also told his priest about the "dirt" in confession, "but he was deaf and he would say 'speak up'. "I told a doctor about the nuns. That being said, they feel unhappy with their lives and they believe that someone else has to pay the consequences. It blew into the sea and they went into retrieve it, a stupid plastic ball - of course, they wouldn't have dared do otherwise. "Most of the time he was like a recluse. Terrified, I remember holding out my hand thinking an adult would take it. If you were lying on your side, you'd be yanked back. In the grounds, he noticed that where once there were playing fields there was now a children's nursery. Unexplained-Mysteries.com Betsy was drowned. She said she never told her father I was afraid of what he would do to the nun when he found out and only summoned up the courage to tell her mother of the trauma just before her death in 2002. After we pray, we shake hands, but one woman refused and said I was bringing the church down. (9 Reasons Why). FOR MORE than 100 years, the Poor Sisters of Nazareth cared for children in the order's dozens of homes across Britain. I was in bed by 7pm and they used to check you were asleep with your hands across your chest. They were not battleaxes or crones. One of the nuns said: 'You watch you don't get blood on your dress or you'll catch it.' She was eight. It is to be a test case, in which 11 former inmates will appear in court, and is expected to be heard in Scotland later this year. It was a form of mental torture.". "Holidays were spent at other Nazareth House homes. 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. Right to her death, Mum kept saying, 'If only I hadn't got ill.' She thought it was her fault. "Bedwetting was about the worst thing you could do. Wrong.. 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. And then she left. "It's up to us whether we want to forgive. They were always calling us guttersnipes or scavengers and seemed to enjoy humiliating us. "I began wetting the bed and this was seen as a dreadful crime. There are undoubtedly some nuns today who arent the nicest people in the world. She had been sent with her sisters to Glasgow's Nazareth House from their home in the Highlands after their mother was diagnosed with tuberculosis, a disease that was still "like a death knell in the 1950s". So we sat on the sheet to dry it - we were only children. The nuns would help deliver the babies, who would then be brought up elsewhere until they could be adopted. To learn more, you can also read our posts on why 911 operators are so rude, why judges are so rude, and why cops are so rude. Give us an apology. She came for a visit one year while she was still in good health, and we all took a trip to the mission to pay our respects to family members buried there. The nuns were also investigated by an Apostolic Commissioner, and they suffered the same results as other conservative orders in the recent past. I saw it.". Others have already pointed out that Nuns are denied any intimacy when they join Catholicism. Archaic teaching methods are now seen as barbaric. According to his social services records, his family was "destitute" and his mother admitted selling a pair of shoes for food. So he wrote to God. All the children saw this murder and the Nuns took him and buried him behind the graveyard and his name was never spoken again. Nothing. First off I'd change that to SOME nuns, not all. The priest to whom he made his confession, he says, was Father Conti. The strap was socially acceptable. But the fact remains, why were nuns so cruel? ", Enduring companionship between friends and siblings seemed to be discouraged. These days the nuns look after old people. "She especially hated me. This was their holiday. But though he is active in progressive politics and his music club, says, "I'm also very lonely, I have to admit that.". Start your Independent Premium subscription today. We want them gone immediately, she said. Joseph Currie, the orphanage child, had something important to say, but there was no one to tell it to. By My grandmother, aunts, uncles, great aunts and uncles cousins ect ect, were mostly raised in the Cotholic Missions on different Indian Reservations. And then I just remember leaving. So if you see a mean nun, remember that shes probably going through a lot. There was a constant atmosphere of fear, and beatings all the time. Its not easy to live up to such high standards. I blame Nazareth House. No one did and I was just told to follow on. Cusiter was eight when her mother disappeared and she and her five brothers and sisters were taken from Glasgow to Aberdeen's Nazareth House. 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. Father Tindall, the church's child protection coordinator in the north-east of England, ventured: "Too much of the organised culture of the church was very disciplined and rule-bound, and gave an opportunity for people under pressure to use the language of discipline to be punitive. gruel meaning: 1. a cheap simple food made, especially in the past, by boiling oats with water or milk 2. a cheap. "She took me off by the hair, twisted me round and threw me against the church wall," she says. 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. "The real meaning of 'dirt' was sexual abuse," Currie says, "I felt dirty. People can be cruel unintentional, they can say or do things unconsciously, but that is not an excuse for their actions. 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. The. We've received your submission. Celibacy is NOT normal for humans. Strain if necessary, season with salt or sugar, and serve. There was no record of Betsy after that incident, nothing. Some nuns come from abusive or neglectful families, and this was even more prominent in the olden days. She was tied to a chair and beaten for weeks until she started to learn english. After leaving Nazareth House, the six were never again in the same room together. FARINA GRUEL. An official inquiry has found that Sisters of Nazareth nuns subjected children to vicious abuse, humiliation and at times sexual assault of "utmost depravity". It was only 30 years later, when other Nazareth House survivors began to speak out about their experiences, that his childhood and its bleak effects could no longer be dismissed as his imaginings. ", Her younger sister has never forgotten that day: she could scarcely swim, but managed to grasp a long log. Money would never take away what happened - God's representatives on earth behaving in such an appalling manner." Imagine trying to be perfect all the time. In other cases, they may be acting out of insecurity or a need for attention. Currie is one of the more than 500 bringing the action against the Sisters of Nazareth and the other orders. Contrast Naughty Nuns. "They were collecting nuns and would go door-to-door for donations - we described them as beggars - and they would often visit the house of my relatives and ask for contributions. They aren't children's homes any longer. ", Some former residents say they were sexually abused - Cusiter remembers a driver who "would touch up the boys and the girls" and, she says, a child would often be used to keep watch while one of the handymen pursued his sexual relationship with a nun - but most of the cases against the Sisters of Nazareth concern physical violence. The current limit on cases before that date is being challenged in the courts, and members of the Scottish parliament are mooting a change in the law. He is never surprised by attempts to discredit people like himself. One of these burst and burnt my foot badly, leaving a permanent scar. If it was, then you'd be yanked out, called all filthy names. (9 Reasons Why), Why Are Customers So Rude? I know that they are supposed to be married to god and suchbut when you are married to a guy that is never around, doesn't talk to you, sets up impossible rules, and never has sex with youwell you would be cranky too. An aunt who came to visit was told I was confined with an infection. However, nuns arent the cruel teachers they used to be. "As a precaution, in case I died," he made a tape-recording and put two pieces of paper in an envelope. "The only thing I learned to do there was fight, and when I come across a nun today I avoid them because I cannot be civil. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? But after Pope Francis recently made the bombshell admission that some nuns were abused by priests and even used as sex slaves, dozens of Catholics have come forward to report a tangential, and just as evil, phenomenon sexual abuse by nuns. This mission is still in use today and as far as I know they have not slacked off of the punishments. 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