February 2019 Even in death, the Holy Nuns administered this final insult by depriving the innocent women and children of Catholic burial rites. November 2020 "You were thrashed about the feet, head and hands, you had your hair pulled and your head bounced off the walls. I blame Nazareth House. They were let go home on some weekends and hollidays. Wicked City was initially canceled after just 3 episodes, but later, the remaining episodes were aired on Hulu. Within them, however, nobody could escape the interlaced structure of these complex power relations. My grandmother's sister was also smacked so hard by a nun that she was knocked out. I was five years of age. "She especially hated me. Catholic religious sisters, commonly (and inaccurately) called "nuns", are a declining part of American life. Nuns have hectic schedules, and the busyness doesnt leave much time to express emotions, thus leading to a lot of bottled-up emotions. The Nuns total exercise of power included the daily use of extreme mental as well as physical violence as they believed that the women and the children were to be broken on the Catherine wheel, so to speak, and destroyed mentally, if possible, by the whims and acrimonious tempers of the sexually frustrated Nuns. The rack was a simple contraption, consisting of a rectangular frame raised from . 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! Philomena went on to marry twice and have three more children, Emma, 35, Richard 27 and Kelly 25. Nuns. Many of those alleging physical, and to some extent sexual, abuse are now elderly people who say their entire lives have been affected by what they endured as children. The stories I have heard just make me cry. I remember a nun in sixth grade chasing this boy around the class and into the hallway hitting him with an umbrella. Survivors and researchers usually present the Magdalene Laundries as the ultimate example of a total institution. 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. 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. This can lead to them being quite cruel to others, especially those weaker than them. Power incites, induces and seduces especially when used or mixed with fear. There was church every day of the week. He told me to take my clothes off and he would wash me down and then he started fondling me, before masturbating me, says William. Its not easy to live up to such high standards. I wish all devout Catholics would do the same. No one would believe how bad it was. Gods people, "get out of her.". And 40 nuns belonging to the Poor Sisters of Nazareth and the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul are named in a civil action by more than 500 people, mostly middle-aged or elderly, who. I was terrified 24 hours a day. I certainly didnt need any time to reflect on my own experience of cruel Irish Nuns.. After all, I was nine years with the Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul in Dublin in both a Mother and Baby Home, St. Patricks on the Navan Road where I was born and spent the first four years of my life, and for five more years at St Philomena's Home, Stillorgan. Violence was frequently employed and encouraged with the most common forms being verbal abuse, slaps, blows, and kicks. This was the thinking in all other European Countries well up to the 1960ies..Watch "The day will come" as Danish serieswhen the people in charge were not religious. Or maybe it's just being in a power of authority with god as your boss. The religious habit was a distinctive set of clothing worn by members of a religious Order with the style and colour differentiating each Order. Think for example of other people in committed relationships. Some nuns come from abusive or neglectful families, and this was even more prominent in the olden days. For the barbarous Nuns who lived there and in other Institutions, they were a great place in which to eat, drink, work and play once you locked the slaves away at night as any competent slave trader and owner would do. August 2018 Instead of fetching a doctor they kept me in bed and surrounded me with hot water bottles. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Why Are Bartenders So Rude? My time with these Nuns was horrendous. The rules of the Magdalene Laundries gave the Nuns the absolute authority to punish the inmates who were slave women and children. 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. In my school the nuns, well a few of them were mean. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. It was a poor but loving home, but in 1975, Williams world was turned upside down when Catherine buckled under the strain and left. The Residential Institutions Redress Board, set up in 2002, received 16,500 applications for financial compensation - 15,500 of which were successful - and paid out an average of 62,000 (55,000) in sums ranging from 10,000 to 300,000. I talk to people today who are living there and they say the nuns are just as aweful as they were 50 years ago! Was Thomas given away or sold? You must remember that Catholic Ireland believed that the Religious-run Institutions were legitimate and acceptable places in which to put unmarried women and their children who were judged as being anti-social and ungodly. Children were also left hungry and cold, with poor hygiene facilities. More than 400 former residents are planning to sue the order over what they claim was cruel, unnecessary and harmful treatment suffered at the hands of the Sisters. Sister Fidelma, an Irish nun at St. Brigid's Abbey is possibly the most interestingand smartestnun ever to be found on the pages of a clerical mystery. dead bodies should be so very much more shocking than . I believe in God, though". July 2021 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. He did that to each of us in turn.. I was more in shock that the bitch assaulted me. This expectation can be quite a burden and lead to nuns being critical of others. But the fact remains, why were nuns so cruel? "The nun got the two of us and brought us out and she put us in with a corpse. Some thuggish Nuns who worked in the Magdalene Laundries and other Institutions were notorious for hitting the enslaved women and children for no reason, even beating some to death. May 2019 The tank previously believed to have held victims of the Irish famine of the 1840s was on the property of a "mother and baby home" run by the Bon Secours nuns between 1925 and 1961; while . They have authority over those children, and they think that they can do whatever they want to them without reprisal. The proud wearing of the religious habit was a profound experience for the middle-class women, and the uniformity contributed to forging an esprit de corps, a feeling of pride and mutual loyalty even though it did not exclude hierarchies of rank and did not preclude friction within the group. "The nuns never believed I was deaf. "When I left [the Cardiff home] at 18 I was just handed a suitcase with hardly anything in it and shown the door. 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. May 2022 July 2020 February 2018 The rejects who they couldnt sell were in turn enslaved or were killed off and disposed of in mass pits and septic tanks in all the Convent lands. They would just use anything that came to hand. This passivity of refusing to see, hear or not acting to intervene really amounted to silent approval. So nuns did their best to keep you from committing a mortal sin and their way of doing that was to enforce a sort of discipline by various means of which some were mean like hitting your knuckels with a ruler. An aunt who came to visit was told I was confined with an infection. Only my opinion of course, but I'd blame it on a lack of physical and emotional shenanigans with members of the opposite sex. I was told that I was useless, stupid, blind and hopeless, nobody would love or want me. So now comes the question. 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. The slaves of Magdalene. Part of being human is being a sexual person humans are attracted to other people, have romantic feelings and sexual urges. They were always calling us guttersnipes or scavengers and seemed to enjoy humiliating us. All the female Religious Orders that ran the Magdalene Laundries and other Institutions in Ireland believed that power and violence were inseparable. My heart was deeply touched by reading this article which reports the most horrifying cruelty to women and children. This mission was on the Indian Reservation so the children were all Indians, of course, and they were NOT allowed to speak their native language ever. August 2021 My mother was one of them. 1. 3-For because of the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, all the nations have fallen victim, and the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth became rich owing to the power of her shameless luxury." 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. Today it is different, but I believe the stories I have been told. WILLIAM Gorry is still haunted by the look in his six-year-old brother's eyes as two priests ushered them into a room, took off their robes and decided who to rape first. Content Summary. "I began wetting the bed and this was seen as a dreadful crime. 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? Oberon Copeland is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, with a degree in economics and HR. 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. June 2019 They are not interested in children which was obvious at Tuam .Orphanage, in Ireland plus others.. After all, slavery played a crucial role in the development and ongoing operation of the Cults economy. My time there has deeply affected my life. I was asked to go but I refused, says William. Keep on seeking first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. . 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. It was bad enough in Newcastle, but after the war broke out we were moved to Carlisle where it was much more cruel. She would choose . ), it wouldn't be hard to, Couple a sadistic personality and a whole lot of pent up sexual frustration.yeah anybody would go psycho. Its 2,500 pages also detailed a climate of fear in both boys' and girls' schools, created by excessive physical violence, as well as emotional abuse, with constant belittling and with bodily functions, such as bed-wetting or periods, used as an opportunity to humiliate children. 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. "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst." February 2020 The babies were usually. We all knew it was going to be grim. She was looking for a victim."I was 11 and looked 9. They had no rights, were (still are to some degree) exposed to all sorts of abuse of the Catholic hierarchy, who always were their superior and who always has to be present to some degree because women can't do things by themselves in Catholicsm by design. 4-And I heard another voice out of Heaven say: "Get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues." 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. You have to ask why are some women cruel because the reality is some women are cruel. My Grandmother has told me many stories of the evil nuns. Never has been and never will be. Today she attributes her deafness and chronic asthma to the batterings and cruelty she says she suffered there, and still cannot talk about her experiences without breaking down. "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. One of the devices operating on this principle was the rack, which is infamously associated with the Inquisition . I think what happens is that religion is handed down from generation to generation in what ever form it maybe and catholics had no problem sparing the rod as that's how they grew up. I was 8 years of age. Thats awefull! The Nuns enjoyed certain privileges both in Irish society as a whole and in their palatial Convents where the daily tasks of cooking, cleaning, washing-up, ironing etc, were all performed by their slaves. The "significant quantities" of remains were found in 17 out of 20 underground chambers that were examined. At the residential home, he was given two sets of clothes, a number 217 and sent to his dormitory. One of these burst and burnt my foot badly, leaving a permanent scar. Your post was so full of hate & sarcasm Im surprised you havent been banned what you wrote was absolutely inexcusable. I was constantly humiliated.. I don't think you answered the question "Why were some nuns cruel". May 2020 Iona Institute Director. The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration are a. We found nine reasons that may shock you. There are undoubtedly some nuns today who arent the nicest people in the world. I think my time there has left deep scars. She lived at Nazareth House homes in Newcastle and Carlisle until she was 13, in 1944. 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. The early Irish monks and nuns, who tried for a time to be as strict with themselves as the hermits of the Egyptian desert, found that it was just about impossible to starve properly in Treland, because the country abounded in delicious food of all kinds-"leeks from the garden, poultry, game,/Salmon and trout and bees," as a salivating monastic Sister Josephine had no explanation for why the commandment was given Thou shall not kill but people were killing each other in Gods name. Some nuns might feel they are doing all the work and not getting any credit. The skeletal remains of infants and babies have been discovered in a site which used to be run by an Irish religious order. October 2020 The Mother Teressa took him to the creek behind the dorms and drug him through the cold water until he died. A nun all of a sudden picked the kid up, carried him to the door, then slammed the door into his head. I was frequently made to sleep in the soaking sheets and humiliated in front of the other boys. Run by the Bon Secours order of nuns, the Tuam home opened in 1925 and closed in 1961. - tuambabies.org; 3 3.Inside the horrifying, unspoken world of sexually abusive nuns; 4 4.Catholic nuns lift veil on abuse in convents - Reuters; 5 5.Abuse by Women Religious (nuns and sisters) - SNAP; 6 6.I was battered by nuns and raped by priests in same room . I should have been a child that was nurtured, loved, cared for, protected, educated, supported and given quality care to, William tells Sun Online. Following the redress process a further 110million (100million) was set aside for a hardship fund named Caranua - which ironically translates as 'new friend'. 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. 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. "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. Total hypocrisy with no explanation. But . First off I'd change that to SOME nuns, not all. Revelation 18:2-42-"She has fallen! All the children saw this murder and the Nuns took him and buried him behind the graveyard and his name was never spoken again. July 2018 The nuns told us to strip off and stand beside the the bed and they left us just standing there for ages, waiting for our punishment. 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. Getty Images. 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. They were not battleaxes or crones. 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.. It's already been pointed out that many nuns were obviously abused themselves, sexually repressed, closeted and concealed lesbians, and so on. My child never went to church or catholic upbringing. It is anger, suffering and self isolation.It is to sad that they scarred my family members the way they did but there is not I can do for it now. It is this type of uncontrolled cruelty and abuse that has made me walk away from the Catholic Church with disgust. I have cried so much wondering what happened to my loving brother. Unexplained-Mysteries.com 10 The Duplessis Orphans. Was Thomas given away or sold?. The impact of a blow is much greater if administered with the foot. It can also lead to nuns acting out in ways that are considered cruel. "We were skivvies, basically. Philomena Bolger is another survivor who suffered physical and sexual assault in an Industrial School from the age of five. Buy, Sell, and Trade your Firearms and Gear. The female . The extravagant Convents offered the Nuns a degree of gentile comfort, a warm room of their own, the best of food and drink, and wanting for nothing. Good or bad just jot one or two down for me if you don't mind. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - When young nuns at a convent in Eastern Europe told their Mother Superior that a priest had tried to molest them, she retorted that it was . Sign up for a new account in our community. This mission is still in use today and as far as I know they have not slacked off of the punishments. Vicious evil people.. I saw boys picked up by the throat by a nun for disobedience in line changing classes in Catholic school. William, one of 13 children born to Catherine and John Gorry in Ballyowen, Co. Offaly, was born partially sighted and two of his brothers were severely disabled. Yet the harsh conditions of the Tuam home meant the infant. At one time, the training nuns received was outdated and very harsh. You could be hit for talking in church. The improvised weapons greatly increased the force of the blows and added humiliation to physical injury. I was in bed by 7pm and they used to check you were asleep with your hands across your chest. They left the unfortunate girls to their fate. . Read Book A Light In The Window An Irish Christmas Love Story Kindle . "Looking back, I think one of the reasons was that the nuns weren't happy and decided we damn well weren't going to be either. She was told to go away, that we were wards of court, even though that wasnt true. "The dormitory would sleep 12. In some cases the Nuns even used their long heavy-duty wooden rosary beads to beat the slave women or the children. Are thay taught "Spare the rod spoil the child" in nun school? "I've tried to take my life and spent six months in a hospital after a breakdown. But the nun wasn't looking for someone to help her. Beatings and acts of extreme cruelty were commonplace, they say, and together with the spartan existence in the home, gave them lives of utter misery. We went to the airport and we weren't allowed to see the coffin or go near it, so I had my suspicions all along. The whole idea was for those women to do penance for their sins. November 2018 "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. For other inquiries, Contact Us. June 2020 A Nun who was excessively violent and cruel could only exist in a situation where she felt authorised to carry out degrading and humiliating acts of violence. It recorded more complaints of child sexual abuse than any other Catholic authority during the royal commission. But by and large, theyre much nicer than they used to be. For being late for prayer. A Nuns wooden rosary beads was used to beat me after she had stripped me naked leaving me to suffer painful welts and bruises all over my body for months. World Ireland Dublin. 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. In her case, she claims, a company charged 15,000 for work on her home which included 6,000 for a stove which actually cost 475. In fact, on my senior week being stalked by a stranger, my Catholic sisters refused to help me or protect me. 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! Philomenas mother, who died at 74, kept in touch with all her children throughout their times at the schools and enjoyed a good relationship with them as adults. So I guess if someone can tell me why they are so mean and abusive that would be nice. Nuns with children at Sean Ross abbey. The Nuns believed they had the right to use violence on them arbitrarily, including, if necessary, killing them. Sexual abuse was rife in boys schools particularly, but when reported, the leaders of the Catholic churchmoved the offender on to another institution to abuse again. Gmail 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. . A "religieuse" as she is called throughout the series, she also trained as an advocate of Irish law called the Brehon law system. Thomas Paine, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw. But it was all in the interest of getting you into heaven. Thanks to all for your replys, I think the hammer has found the nail on this perhaps. 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. 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. Allegations of abuse by its nuns first surfaced in Scotland last year. March 2021 Why are Nuns so mean? Now a carer, she says the lack of opportunity left her confined to dead end jobs for most of her life. You must wear modest clothing when not wearing your nun's habit. You are right nuns are human like you and everyone else. When America Despised the Irish: The 19th Century's Refugee Crisis Forced from their homeland because of famine and political upheaval, the Irish endured vehement discrimination before making. Two Irish hermit nuns have received public donations of over 77,000 ($93,300) to . I hear stories about the nuns from non family members too and not many people have "Found memories" of their days with the nuns. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. So, its no wonder nuns can be so cruel. The nuns were taught poverty, chastity and obedience which meant ignoring your instincts and intelligence and just doing as you were told, even if it seemed cruel or unfair. After Duplessis received the provincial Church . The nuns were so mentally and physically abusive .the lay teachers were the same . My grandmother was 3 years old when she was first brought to the mission. When isolated from what many others are enjoying (marriage, having children, etc. It makes perfect sense that some would take their emotions out on others. While your doing that, tell any stories of nuns that you might have. Now, writes Jane Wheatley . as elsewhere, they became . Nuns Break COVID Rules to Attend Exorcism. I relatiated at nuns school in UK. I was never so happy as when I left that place, but it's stayed with me ever since. Firearm Discussion and Resources from AR-15, AK-47, Handguns and more! Does any of what these Nuns did sound righteous to you? For William, now 54, the trauma of the abuse haunts him in every waking moment. "Twelve people . It was considered very prestigious to have a daughter become a Nun as was having a son in the Priesthood. It was only later I realised that you didn't bruise so badly there. Why? if the nuns were to blame, / So it had to be caused by a wire . 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. In the 1901 and 1911 Census in there were about 100 inmates in the Magdalen Loundry in Galway..about 8 or 9 nuns. 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. Not a day went by without someone getting a battering. Sometimes the really obvious take on history turns out to be the right one. 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. "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. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. As you say the nuns were mostly from rural areas. 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. I think the average age for priests and nuns in the US today is like 70. March 2018 Someone who The slave trade they operated included the illegal selling of the children of the enslaved women. Why Are Chihuahuas So Aggressive? Its a shame, as nuns should represent peace, kindness, and gentleness. Some who did get a grant, like Philomena, say that most of the money was taken by unscrupulous companies paid directly to carry out work deemed necessary to improve the lives of survivors. 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