Tag: Nuns

• Wednesday, February 6th 2019 - 09:09 UTC

  Sexual abuse of nuns by clerics, including abortions, 'and still going', was admitted by Pope Francis

  

  Pope Francis has admitted that clerics have sexually abused nuns, and in one case they were kept as sex slaves. He said in that case his predecessor, Pope Benedict, was forced to shut down an entire congregation of nuns who were being abused by priests.

• Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:28 UTC

  ”Inside the Church, women (nuns) are exploited”, says a Vatican magazine

  

  A Vatican magazine has denounced how nuns are often treated like indentured servants by cardinals and bishops, for whom they cook and clean for next to no pay. The March edition of “Women Church World,” the monthly women’s magazine of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, hit newsstands Thursday. Its expose on the underpaid labor and unappreciated intellect of religious sisters confirmed that the magazine is increasingly becoming the imprint of the Catholic Church’s #MeToo movement.