Abuse Upon Abuse

  I grew up in a ultra right wing Catholic family and as a child I learned at a very young age to keep my head down, not make any noise, and stay quiet, be invisible. I was not sexually abused, yet I witnessed tons of physical and emotional abuse. The nuns literally beat the living shit out of children every day. Children that were slower learners, or from extreme poverty, or from abusive households were the most vulnerable. These were the children who were beaten, somehow beating the shit out of them was the way to improve conditions that these children were unable to control or even understood in even the tiniest of ways. It's a horrible disgusting legacy and I left the church as a teenager, never to return, and never will.

February 6, 2019 - NY Times: Sexual Abuse of Nuns: Longstanding Church Scandal Emerges From Shadows By Jason Horowitz

The sexual abuse of nuns and religious women by Catholic priests and bishops — and the abortions that have sometimes resulted — has for years been overshadowed by other scandals in the Roman Catholic Church.

That seemed to change this week when Pope Francis publicly acknowledged the problem for the first time.