Vatican Admits Priests are Raping Nuns Around the World

[cleanhippie]

It's not just little kids who are endangered by Catholic priests -- Catholic nuns also have reason to fear. The Vatican has finally admitted that nuns all around the world have been sexually abused and even raped by priests. Africa has had the most problems, but many other countries have been involved as well, including India, Ireland, Italy, the Philippines and the United States.

Confidential Vatican reports obtained by the National Catholic Reporter, a weekly magazine in the US, have revealed that members of the Catholic clergy have been exploiting their financial and spiritual authority to gain sexual favours from nuns, particularly those from the Third World who are more likely to be culturally conditioned to be subservient to men.

The reports, some of which are recent and some of which have been in circulation for at least seven years, said that such priests had demanded sex in exchange for favours, such as certification to work in a given diocese.

In extreme instances, the priests had made nuns pregnant and then encouraged them to have abortions.


http://atheism.about.com/b/2011/03/23/vatican-admits-priests-are-raping-nuns-around-the-world.htm

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Now if they would just admit to the child-rape.....

[darkstar3]

1. Didn't they make a movie about this many years ago?

I'm pretty sure this admission is a few hundred years late.

[formercia]

3. "Nasty Habits"

Very bad porn.

[darkstar3]

5. I was thinking "Agnes of God."

[formercia]

7. That was a good movie.

A bit dark..

I was just yanking your chain. :hi:

[DCBob]

2. If I were Pope, I would allow priests and nuns to marry.

Seems that would help solve a number of nagging problems.

[formercia]

6. That won't solve the Predator problem.

They have to have their power trip. Vanilla just won't do.

[DCBob]

11. yes.. unfortunately.

but it would still be much better than the current situation... imo.

[formercia]

18. I agree

Any step in the right direction is a good one, though, I suspect Ratzinger won't hear of it.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. I can't even pretend to be surprised by this information..........

[rug]

8. That's old news. Literally five months old.

Update your google parameters.

[Humanist_Activist]

12. And hence another non-issue to you, so concerned to protect Mother Church...

at all costs.

[laconicsax]

13. Does that make it any less relevant?

Christians the world over regularly talk about something that allegedly happened two-thousand years ago.

[trotsky]

15. I don't remember it being posted in R/T at that time, officer. n/t

[cleanhippie]

17. Don't forget repetitive news, too, rug.

This shit happens all the time in the church.


Funny thing is, you always try and downplay it. I'm sure god is proud.

[ZombieHorde]

19. The actual article may be five months old, but the content of the article

is still very current.

The Christian Holy Bible is much older than this article, but people still quote it because they feel the content is relevant.

[Goblinmonger]

20. Holy Shit. Five MONTHS old?!?!

I'm sure the problem is taken care of then. All's good and pure in the RCC again, I'm sure.

What's it going to take for you to actually admit that the RCC has HUGE problems? Rape of kids, rape of nuns doesn't seem to do it.

[edhopper]

21. Yeah that's just like bringing up shit the

Church did in the middle Ages. That was the 'Old' Church from the early 2000s.

[firehorse]

9. It's new disgusting news to me, thanks for posting.

[GodlessBiker]

10. So, women and children are being raped within this criminal racketeering enterprise.

[trotsky]

16. And the perps are protected.

I'd be beyond steamed if I found out the money I gave voluntarily to an organization was being used to coddle rapists, but that's just me I guess.

[LAGC]

14. You mean they progressed from raping little boys to raping adult women?

Maybe the liberal Catholics are right -- the church CAN be changed from inside!

:sarcasm:

[skepticscott]

22. Well, I'm sure that priests don't rape nuns

at a higher rate than anyone else does. And if everyone else is doing it too, why make a big deal of it?

:sarcasm:

[cleanhippie]

23. Of course, rapists span the WHOLE spectrum, right?

The fact that a gigantic institution is condoning it is irrelevant, huh?

[Adsos Letter]

24. I think I saw a sarcasm smiley at the bottom of his post.

Maybe you're just kidding around? :shrug:

[cleanhippie]

25. Yes! Sorry, I thought that the sarcasm tag was not needed.