I just
received a copy of Steve's message about the nuns, passed on by Bob
Hoatson. I want to support their concerns and certainly the
concerns of SNAP. I don't find VOTF's support of the nuns to be a
"slap in the face" since I don't believe it was intended to be
that. However I do agree that for the many, many victims of sexual
and physical abuse by nuns, the attention being paid to the Vatican
investigation and the sympathy extended to the nuns can be
infuriating in light of the revelations of widespread abuse.
I agree with your support of the nuns in general because I am convinced the Vatican inquisition has nothing to do with truth and everything to do with paranoid perceptions of someone taking their power from them. Its control! In some ways it is as bizarre and perverse as Benedict XVI's so-called "Year for Priests." In that case he held up as a model St. John Vianney. If you have ever read an honest biography of the patron of parish priests you might get the impression that he was psychotic with a severely twisted concept of priesthood. The pope and the rest of his collection in the Vatican are obviously living in a time-warp.
http://www.awrsipe.com/Doyle/2009/sexual_abuse_by_nuns.htm
I agree with your support of the nuns in general because I am convinced the Vatican inquisition has nothing to do with truth and everything to do with paranoid perceptions of someone taking their power from them. Its control! In some ways it is as bizarre and perverse as Benedict XVI's so-called "Year for Priests." In that case he held up as a model St. John Vianney. If you have ever read an honest biography of the patron of parish priests you might get the impression that he was psychotic with a severely twisted concept of priesthood. The pope and the rest of his collection in the Vatican are obviously living in a time-warp.
http://www.awrsipe.com/Doyle/2009/sexual_abuse_by_nuns.htm
