Catholic Nuns
The nun was held by kidnappers for nearly five months following an armed raid of her Burkina Faso home.
Religious orders are supposed to be spiritual sanctuaries for those who join. But for these women, the order of Sisters Minor of Mary Immaculate was a nightmare of alleged abuse. Now, years later, four of those former sisters are speaking out in hopes of preventing abuse.
âLast year the theme had been âFrozen,â so I guess she really went through something since then,â the girlâs cousin told HuffPost.
Two survivors share stories of grooming, emotional manipulation and sexual abuse by nuns in the Catholic Church.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Catholic Church has been rocked with allegations of sexual abuse carried out by priests for decades. Now survivors of abusive nuns are speaking out. Patricia âTrishâ Cahill and Anne Gleeson were teenagers when the abuse began. Even though these two survivors grew up in different cities, the grooming and manipulation conducted by the nuns they say abused them sound eerily and tragically similar.
Joan of Leeds reportedly tricked her fellow nuns into burying a dummy in her place and ran away from her York convent.
The pope publicly confirmed that some priests have subjected nuns to "sexual slavery," and pledged to take action.
"Itâs been the hardest spiritual practice Iâve ever committed to," Sister Susan Francois told The New York Times.
Ahead of the midterm elections, 30 Catholic sisters are touring the country to talk about how the tax law poses an âexistential threatâ to lower-income Americans.
The social justice-focused sisters are traveling to 21 states ahead of the midterms.