January 2020 The family would throw her out of the house and she'd give the other daughters a bad name and lessen their chance of marrying any kind of decent man. "She especially hated me. "I don't think I saw Sister Laurence ever smile. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Archaic teaching methods are now seen as barbaric. Not a life of such abuse, torture, pain and hell. "I am not the human I should be, a human that should have had what I deserved as a child - my family, love, happiness, education, a job, being able to live with my partner and marry. But . A "religieuse" as she is called throughout the series, she also trained as an advocate of Irish law called the Brehon law system. Many Nuns pretended not to see or hear what was going on around them, but instead were passive, taking refuge in their work and silent prayers. Nuns with children at Sean Ross abbey. If you were scrubbing the floor and looked up you could get a whack over the head or even be kneed in the face. July 2021 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. I think that's the way many of them were trained, in a very authoritarian church. Celibacy is NOT normal for humans. Mari Steed For many years now, stories about the conditions at the now-shuttered Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Ireland, have circulated among locals. At night, they were abused by visiting priests who came to the girls dorm. We did all the work in the convent, cleaning the windows, scrubbing floors, doing the laundry and washing out the bathrooms. What is it that makes these Nuns so down right nasty mean? The recipients often turn . So far, the Poor Sisters of Nazareth have refused to comment, but it is believed that the allegations will be contested vigorously. The whole idea was for those women to do penance for their sins. Some Nuns systematically accelerated and intensified their violent acts in the presence of another Nun, and considered it better still if she was an incoming novice. They are not interested in children which was obvious at Tuam .Orphanage, in Ireland plus others.. Iona Institute Director. But many nuns never had the chance to break the cycle. Jealous Nuns could be jealous of the attention that Catholic Mothers get. Terrified, I remember holding out my hand thinking an adult would take it. Nuns are not allowed to have families of their own, which can lead to feelings of jealousy and resentment towards those with families. No matter what any "spiritual leader" might say. It was considered very prestigious to have a daughter become a Nun as was having a son in the Priesthood. He found refuge in the British army, where . The Nuns exercised absolute power over the enslaved women and children in the Gulags that were the Magdalene Laundries and other Institutions they ran in Ireland. 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. The only subject of conversation was who was for it next. (11 Reasons Why). "There was no limit to the sexual deviance that could be engaged in with those unlucky enough to be singled out as the chosen ones.". Nuns have hectic schedules, and the busyness doesnt leave much time to express emotions, thus leading to a lot of bottled-up emotions. 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. June 2019 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. Anjez Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, or Mother Teresa as she is now known throughout the world, was one of the most important Catholic Church figures when she was alive and even posthumously. Imagine trying to be perfect all the time. In the 1940s, the Bon Secours nuns were paid by the Irish state nearly 100 per child a week to care for those in their care. Myth: In 17th century Barbados (and elsewhere . It is also true that in the Free State times families could have taken their daughters home at any stageWe had a Constitution which obliges due process before incarceration. "Most of the nuns were Irish and though they were trained to be nuns they were not trained to look after kids, and that is where a lot of the problems were. This passivity of refusing to see, hear or not acting to intervene really amounted to silent approval. I thought bugger that, I'm saying my piece.". Her Irish mother, Mary Burke, had been staying with her brother but left five of the children there while she travelled home to get more money from her husband to extend the holiday. As the result of a rape and beating by a Nun, I spent two years in a coma in hospital hiding from my mangled mind and body. We were beaten with big sticks - the bigger the better. The act of forgiveness is powerful. She hated children and was always hitting us with a cricket stump she carried around. Allegations of abuse by its nuns first surfaced in Scotland last year. I was in bed by 7pm and they used to check you were asleep with your hands across your chest. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. (11 Reasons Why), Why Does Batman Not Kill? My mother entered. Claims of abuse have been made about homes run by the order in places including Newcastle upon Tyne, Plymouth, Swansea, Manchester and Sunderland. "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst." October 2018 This expectation can be quite a burden and lead to nuns being critical of others. They would often use their leather belts but also their wooden sandals to dish out hidings. I blame Nazareth House. Read Book A Light In The Window An Irish Christmas Love Story Kindle . Celibacy is NOT normal for humans. The Pope is now aware of the priests raping the nuns and getting rid of the babies. They were raised in abusive homes and grew up as abusive adults. Only my opinion of course, but I'd blame it on a lack of physical and emotional shenanigans with members of the opposite sex. They would just use anything that came to hand. They would see women who had sex outside marriage as being deviant. Many of the initial applications were turned down and, in response, William set up the Residential Institution Survivor Network (RISN), which has now helped over 200 people with appeals. February 2019 "The dormitory would sleep 12. Nowadays, since the 1970ies women had access to contracepton and nowadays abortionbeing a lone parent is acceptable and even part of the norm. They did so because they wanted to jealously safeguard the gold standard for all children, a stable home run by their mothers and fathers. She stayed in Ireland and had a nervous breakdown over the stress of trying to get us back., Philomena says the abuse started straight away, with constant beatings, almost daily, for something and for nothing.. Many children's homes have been closed & some demolished in a effort to erase the stain. Try to be understanding and compassionate. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Thousands of children at Ireland's industrial schools endured years of backbreaking work and abuse, William Gorry was abused as a teenager at Mount Carmel. FOR MORE than 100 years, the Poor Sisters of Nazareth cared for children in the order's dozens of homes across Britain. The "significant quantities" of remains were found in 17 out of 20 underground chambers that were examined. I endured all their frustrations directly with violence, beatings, rapes, and mental trauma. One of the questions I have is for the Catholics of the forums. "One of the worst things that ever happened to me was being locked in a cupboard as a punishment. Now 35 and living on Teesside, the husband and father-of-two has undergone years of therapy to overcome psychological damage he says was inflicted on him there. 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. This definitely made it much worse. The allegations stretch back as far as 50 years and are as recent as the 1970s. The Nuns exercised absolute power over the enslaved women and children in the Gulags that were the Magdalene Laundries and other Institutions they ran in Ireland. My grandmother, aunts, uncles, great aunts and uncles cousins ect ect, were mostly raised in the Cotholic Missions on different Indian Reservations. Content Summary. Kicking, you see, took the degradation of the victims to a new level. It has enriched the Irish Catholic Church to the extent that, even to this day, it is the wealthiest organisation in Ireland. Its not easy being a nun. Gmail A nun all of a sudden picked the kid up, carried him to the door, then slammed the door into his head. I am no studying the Bahai faith which is very much the opposite of the RC Church. Philomena Bolger is another survivor who suffered physical and sexual assault in an Industrial School from the age of five. He was told that the remains would be brought back to Moate for mass and the following day to his hometown of Daingean, Co. Offaly. Most - if not all - of the Irish Nuns were from respectable, rural and middle-class families. Your post was so full of hate & sarcasm Im surprised you havent been banned what you wrote was absolutely inexcusable. "It could happen for any thing, any time of the night or day. The female . Remember some of these women and religious men and priests too went unto these institutions at 13, 14, 15 years of age. Four days later, they were taken to the industrial school at Mount Carmel in Moate, Co. Westmeath, run by the Catholic nuns of the Sisters of Mercy. as elsewhere, they became . 50. "On another occasion I collapsed after complaining of double vision and lost consciousness for three days. They may feel they are missing out on something essential and wonder what could have been. It was a dreadful experience and I will never forget it. In Ireland, the Sisters of Mercy operated, from the time of their foundation in 1831, as a series of autonomous convents, each of them subject to the authority and jurisdiction of their local bishop.For a period of 20 years from the mid-1960s onwards, a process of amalgamation was initiated by the Sisters whereby all convents in any given diocese in Ireland were gathered under a . By When I couldn't make out what they were saying they thought I was being cheeky and I got slapped and punched a lot. Wicked City is an erotic thriller set in 1982 Los Angeles where two police detectives, Jack Roth & Paco Contreras, team up with Karen McClaren, Diver Hawkes & Dianne Kubek to find the serial killer Hollywood Slayer and his partner Betty Beaumontaine. Something was telling me that something bad was going to happen.. Babylon the Great has fallen, and she has become a dwelling place for demons and a place where every unclean spirit and every unclean and hated bird lurks! Anyone who suffers from it can rest easy in at least knowing they're not alone, and when KQED looked at why so many horror movies feature nuns, they found that part of it was the secrecy of convents that put the fear of God into people.. It's been that way for a long, long time way back in . Nuns. The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration are a. and Our Lady of Good Counsel in Yorkville, where the Sisters of Charity were), the Irish Christian Brothers that I had for high school could be a lot worse, being bigger and stronger, and having the same "philosophy" of punishment (seen by my Irish-born . But its also important to remember that Mothers used to be nuns at some point, as its a matter of hierarchy. Many were young and pretty, and though maybe they were kind in their first few weeks, they soon became much the same as the rest. Nuns Break COVID Rules to Attend Exorcism. Bob Marley, "We went to explore the Moon & discovered the Earth" Gene Cernan. Anything can trigger flashbacks because there are so many bad memories, he says. The nuns were terrible.". You cannot become a nun if you have been previously married. This can lead to a lot of unresolved issues, and these issues can eventually turn into anger and resentment. Yet another was scarred after being scalded by a nun who accused her of not using enough hot water when washing. To hide injuries from visitors, children were shut into a "black hole" without bedding, ventilation or light. I hope your not suggesting any of my post isn't true? Unkind. I think the average age for priests and nuns in the US today is like 70. The novice Nuns watched and learned from the older, more experienced Nuns, so that they too could attain the level of cruelty and depravity they daily saw being committed on the slave women and their fatherless children. These Irish nuns emmigrated to Australia and brought the Catholic Churches forced adoption practices with them. The girl herself often wished to take the veil to escape the intolerable working conditions on the family farm. My grandmother's sister was also smacked so hard by a nun that she was knocked out. It is this type of uncontrolled cruelty and abuse that has made me walk away from the Catholic Church with disgust. So I guess if someone can tell me why they are so mean and abusive that would be nice. 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. Some 216,000 children - mostly boys - have been sexually abused by clergy in the French Catholic Church since 1950, a damning new inquiry has found. Golda Meir, One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain. Its not easy to live up to such high standards. Well, I don't think that humans are meant to live without any intimacy; physical or emotional. Why? When my grandma first went there she only spoke her native language, she spoke no english at all. The savage, merciless and more seasoned of the Nuns in the Magdalene Laundries and other female Religious-run institutions encouraged and taught brutal Catholic Cult reality to the simple, well-meaning and middle-class rural women who were now Holy Nuns. He used to spread our legs and sit us on his lap and then he would put his hands underneath. Thats awefull! 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. Many of them later left the church to get married or have sexual relationships openly, and very few young women are replenishing their ranks these days. 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.". Eventually, the crochet schools established by the nuns in the 1850s and 1860s disappeared as fashions changed and the demand for Irish lace declined. Being on the receiving end of this behavior is horrifying and confusing. "You could get hammered for anything. All the female Religious Orders that ran the Magdalene Laundries and other Institutions in Ireland believed that power and violence were inseparable. Its not easy to always obey those in authority, and many nuns who cant obey suffer from stress and anxiety, leading to nuns lashing out at others in positions of power. Eleven nuns were among the 12 people who were arrested and charged on Thursday for years of alleged physical and sexual abuse against children at a Catholic orphanage in Scotland. secrets passed from mother to daughter. If not you got another whacking. They were always calling us guttersnipes or scavengers and seemed to enjoy humiliating us. Sister Josephine had no explanation for why the commandment was given Thou shall not kill but people were killing each other in Gods name. dead bodies should be so very much more shocking than . At the residential home, he was given two sets of clothes, a number 217 and sent to his dormitory. Nuns indeed put in a lot of hard work. 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?' When Mum came back from England she couldn't get us back, she says. Plenty of Students..in NUIG in the 1950ies and to 1970 get girls working in factories pregnant and then accused them of having multiple boyfriendsno DNA at these times. Unexplained-Mysteries.com The victim lies prostrate on the ground, at the Nuns feet. Never has been and never will be. Indeed, the twisting of limbs was a characteristically Christian torture method, as the shedding of blood was apparently discouraged by the Church. The purpose of the daily perpetration of violence against slave women and children of all backgrounds were to dominate, break and destroy them. "Looking back, I think they really despised the children. One of the devices operating on this principle was the rack, which is infamously associated with the Inquisition . German nuns were 'pimps' for sick priests, says sexual abuse victim. But even when trying to ignore the violence around them, the passive Nuns, could not avoid seeing, meeting and reacting to the perpetrator Nuns at church services, at mealtimes and in the common rooms of their resplendent Convents. I went to a convent and the nuns were from Ireland - I landed one who also beat me and her face whilst hitting me with a ruler on the back of my legs was absolutely horrid. 10 The Duplessis Orphans. The innocent novice Nuns, with their good intentions, had no idea of what awaited them in the hellholes known as the Magdalene Laundries with their captive and illegally-held female slaves and their children who, although they had committed no crime, toiled there. Which makes you think that older women who were long time inmates were in charge of the day to day running of the Laundry. "Twelve people . The nuns would enter a convent in their teens and would be told nothing about sex or re Continue Reading 18 2 Peter Kisner There were very few nuns in many cases in these Magdalen Laundries which were called Asylums up the foundation of the Free State. November 2018 Its not easy to keep your feelings bottled up all the time, which can lead to stress and anxiety. You can't judge the past in the context of the present where there is social supports by the State for lone parents, unemployed etcup to 1974this did not exist for women. They justified their abuse of power by the cause their signed up to. I was slapped across the face hard for talking during a movie in 8th grade. May 2020 This can lead to them being quite cruel to others, especially those weaker than them. Sadly, those abusive women were sadists who should have been imprisoned themselves and also hospitalized. Its not something thats public knowledge, but many nuns grow to regret taking this vow. I wish all devout Catholics would do the same. The Nuns had been punishing this boy for not doing his chores and on that fateful night he was murdered by the Nuns. After being forced to leave the school at 16, Philomena fell pregnant and went into one of Irelands notorious mother and baby homes, where her baby girl was taken away and given up for adoption against her will. By using physical violence, the Nuns exercised power not only over the slave women and children, but also over their fellow Nuns.Physical domination was indeed the proof of what they were capable of and, for some Nuns, it expressed a real thirst for power. "Bedwetting was about the worst thing you could do. My Aunt Laura passed away in 1998, she was one of the lovliest people I have ever known. Unforgiving. These emotions can eventually turn into anger and resentment. July 2019 So now comes the question. We were innocent children taken from our mother for no reason, says Philomena. What gives? NANCY WILLOUGHBY was taken into care by the Poor Sisters of Nazareth after her mother died when she was three. They would use canes, sticks, the leather belts around their waists. 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 Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. "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. Narcissists can use words as bullets, zeroing in on anything they can to unsettle and upset you. Was Thomas given away or sold?. February 2020 BERYL HITCHEN, 55, was dumped on the doorstep of the Nazareth House in Cardiff when she was not quite two years old. Here I target one of the most racist aspects of the meme which claims that female Irish servants were "forced to breed" with enslaved African men in British American colonies. The scathing report, by Professor Bruce Grundy of Queensland University, told of how one girl, Helen Carter, had her legs burnt with a red-hot poker, to exorcise the Devil, while another child almost lost her legs which became infected after a nun pulled out her ingrowing toenails with pliers. Instead of fetching a doctor they kept me in bed and surrounded me with hot water bottles. There was real hate there. I was never so happy as when I left that place, but it's stayed with me ever since. (9 Reasons Why). My mom told me that they had no life, could not leave the convent, no TV, no newspapers, so I think it was simple burn out, no way to get away from us brats. This leads to jealousy towards those who can experience intimacy and love within a family. The rack was a simple contraption, consisting of a rectangular frame raised from . Coming from a guy who feel he has the right to condemn, criticise and berate the practice's of nearly two billion people, have you been given Carte Blanche on this board? My kids have grown up and I have a great relationship with them.. Violence was frequently employed and encouraged with the most common forms being verbal abuse, slaps, blows, and kicks. But the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland published last week after five years of work was worse . I was terrified 24 hours a day. Why Are Chihuahuas So Aggressive? She was sent news of baby Sonia for two years, before she was told she could have no more contact. I don't know the answer, but i do know that my grandparents were in catholic school and they also told stories about nuns hurting the kids. This mission is still in use today and as far as I know they have not slacked off of the punishments. Remember one more thing: the mothers who dropped their out-of-wedlock children off at the convents had only one other choice at the timethe street. Total hypocrisy with no explanation. "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. They became boarders while in Secondary School and then joined up they would have no idea for the most part about sexuality's. I carry and wear it every day and I believe many others do the same thing.. But there is good news in all of this. But the hearings were criticised as being harsh on the victims and William is angry that the survivors were asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement in return for the money they were offered. Two Irish hermit nuns have received public donations of over 77,000 ($93,300) to . Yet the harsh conditions of the Tuam home meant the infant. 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