Revelation 18:2-42-"She has fallen! 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. Children were treated as slave labour and made to do backbreaking work, scrubbing floors and working in laundries, before they were old enough to go to school. As you say the nuns were mostly from rural areas. The Widow's Pension did not come in til 1934. Not a day went by without someone getting a battering. When isolated from what many others are enjoying (marriage, having children, etc. 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. Your post was so full of hate & sarcasm Im surprised you havent been banned what you wrote was absolutely inexcusable. 10 The Duplessis Orphans. Are just some of them mean? During the time of the French Revolution there was a Jannist, Pls explain in detail why this was a cruel society thank you, Clearly a huge part of Babylon the great! Sometimes the really obvious take on history turns out to be the right one. Their accounts of life in the various homes have a common theme: of thrashings even for the most minor misdemeanour or failing, be it sneezing, wetting the bed, or forgetting the words of a hymn. I think that's the way many of them were trained, in a very authoritarian church. Was Thomas given away or sold? I was never so happy as when I left that place, but it's stayed with me ever since. You could be hit for talking in church. "Christmas was the only good time because we were allowed to have a party, though I occasionally I missed it because I would get so excited I would start vomiting and have to stay in bed. They justified their abuse of power by the cause their signed up to. Why are Nuns so mean? ", News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 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. But thats human nature. Many youths vow to never be like their parents, only to grow up and mimic the very things they hated as children. Although nuns acting mean is mostly history, the stigma remains in many peoples minds. This mission is still in use today and as far as I know they have not slacked off of the punishments. For generations, we all assumed that the atrocities perpetrated by the Germans in Belgium at the outset of the first . 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. 1. They became boarders while in Secondary School and then joined up they would have no idea for the most part about sexuality's. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. The victim lies prostrate on the ground, at the Nuns feet. Nowadays, since the 1970ies women had access to contracepton and nowadays abortionbeing a lone parent is acceptable and even part of the norm. I just want to try to understand it. They would just use anything that came to hand. Vera lived at the home with her two sisters from the age of six months until she was 17 years old. I was 8 years of age. She was looking for a victim."I was 11 and looked 9. First off I'd change that to SOME nuns, not all. our nuns would cut a finger off if you were late for class, some kids only had thumbs, we had to learn a new word every day if you couldn't pronounce it the nun would set about you with a baseball bat, on the day we had to learn Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ten kids got killed, we slept outside on the grass, in the winters we covered ourselves with cowpats (dung) to keep warm, we had turnips for breakfast lunch and dinner, but on sundays we had a real treat for dinner, the turnip was cooked, my aunt on visiting stalag sacred cross found the grave of the mother superior and dug her up, she then used her skull as a toilet, but she was a dirty cursing perverted old b**** herself. "I left the faith as a direct result and don't describe myself as a Catholic anymore. The Mother Teressa took him to the creek behind the dorms and drug him through the cold water until he died. I was constantly humiliated. She was wacked in the hand a lot with a ruler. A few days later, William was told his brother had died although he is now convinced this was untrue. No one would believe how bad it was. Instead of fetching a doctor they kept me in bed and surrounded me with hot water bottles. It was a dreadful experience and I will never forget it. She was told to go away, that we were wards of court, even though that wasnt true. Never has been and never will be. February 2020 I thought bugger that, I'm saying my piece.". They were raised in abusive homes and grew up as abusive adults. Lets not forget that nuns take a vow of celibacy. No doubt there were a few gentler Nuns, but they remained passively silent as they watched the violent Nuns run amok, behaving in a frenzied, out-of-control and unrestrained manner. For William, and thousands of others, the nightmare goes on. "My feet were so badly swollen I was kept off school for three days and two other girls had to join hands to carry me up and down the stairs. "There were two slices of bread and dripping for breakfast, a ladle of soup at dinner and two more slices of bread and dripping in the evening. The head of the inquiry said there were at. The details of the patterns were kept so secret, in fact, that many of them were lost as the families either died or fled the poverty for other lands. Was Thomas given away or sold?. The purpose of the daily perpetration of violence against slave women and children of all backgrounds were to dominate, break and destroy them. 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 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. The slave trade they operated included the illegal selling of the children of the enslaved women. May 2020 "The dormitory would sleep 12. Reports show that they suffered malnutrition and neglect, which caused the deaths of many, while others died of measles, convulsions, TB, gastroenteritis and pneumonia. FOR Vera Willshire, who is now 75, the year 1939 was one of the happiest of her life. After all, slavery played a crucial role in the development and ongoing operation of the Cults economy. The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration are a. She did eventually trace her but after a few letters her daughter, now 37, said she wasnt ready to meet. Children were treated as slave labour and made to. Some nuns are just following the example set by other nuns. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. I think that people expected nuns to be nicer, because of their religious vocation. Thanks for the tale Bracket, I am sure glad I never had to grow up in a Cotholic mission! Flagrant and cruel. Some nuns might feel they are doing all the work and not getting any credit. In May 1983, 12-year-old Thomas was taken to Lourdes, by the local charity the Order of Malta, who frequently arranged trips for disabled children. Some Nuns systematically accelerated and intensified their violent acts in the presence of another Nun, and considered it better still if she was an incoming novice. Gods people, "get out of her.". At Christmas there was jam. Its not easy to always obey those in authority, and many nuns who cant obey suffer from stress and anxiety, leading to nuns lashing out at others in positions of power. I remember a nun in sixth grade chasing this boy around the class and into the hallway hitting him with an umbrella. "The only thing I learned to do there was fight, and when I come across a nun today I avoid them because I cannot be civil. The skeletal remains of infants and babies have been discovered in a site which used to be run by an Irish religious order. 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. I have cried so much wondering what happened to my loving brother. To this day I cannot go into a loft or a small room and I sleep with the light on because of that. 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. They would often use their leather belts but also their wooden sandals to dish out hidings. November 2020 Unkind. But it was all in the interest of getting you into heaven. For the enslaved women and children, the Magdalene Laundries were places of constant suffering and death through hunger, brutal violence, epidemics and systematic mass-murder. July 2019 People considered the. Every morning he had to wash and dress his little brother Thomas, who had brittle bone disease and was unable to walk. I think my time there has left deep scars. The sexual assault was to be the first of many suffered by William at the hands of his supposed care-givers. 50. Unexplained-Mysteries.com To learn more, you can also read our posts on why 911 operators are so rude, why judges are so rude, and why cops are so rude. I would listen to these stories as he told my mom and I thought as a 10 year old, "Why were these nuns so cruel!" As National Indigenous Peoples Day draws closer and the news that 215 Indian children's graves have been discovered at the Kamloops Indian Reservation School, all those memories of my dad's and mom's stories come back. July 2020 Thats awefull! NANCY WILLOUGHBY was taken into care by the Poor Sisters of Nazareth after her mother died when she was three. July 2018 No Nun ever died of hunger, yet hundreds - if not thousands - of the enslaved women and children in their care died from hunger and cold. December 2019 Its crucial for nuns to be aware of this and to try to break the cycle. I saw a boy hit on the knuckles with a steel ruler at 7 years old. It is also true that in the Free State times families could have taken their daughters home at any stageWe had a Constitution which obliges due process before incarceration. Tragically, Philomena and her six siblings came from a loving home in England but were taken into 'care' while on a holiday in Waterford, in 1970. Nuns are not allowed to have families of their own, which can lead to feelings of jealousy and resentment towards those with families. This can lead to frustration and a feeling of being trapped. When Mum came back from England she couldn't get us back, she says. There was an horrific regime of abuse by the head nun, he says. 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. Two years ago, he began searching for the death certificate and found there were no records of Thomass death at the funeral home, the airline or the French registry. My Grandmother has told me many stories of the evil nuns. January 22, 2011 in Spirituality, Religion and Beliefs. The act of forgiveness is powerful. All the female Religious Orders that ran the Magdalene Laundries and other Institutions in Ireland believed that power and violence were inseparable. For being late for prayer. A police officer later told him he believed it was faked. 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. Its not easy to always be modest. November 2018 I don't think my grandma knew exactly what he was sick with but she told me that the Nuns had NO empathy for a sick child. . View our online Press Pack. In truth most of the young Nuns were not yet expert in administering human suffering; they were to become that later. Read Book A Light In The Window An Irish Christmas Love Story Kindle . I carry and wear it every day and I believe many others do the same thing.. But even when trying to ignore the violence around them, the passive Nuns, could not avoid seeing, meeting and reacting to the perpetrator Nuns at church services, at mealtimes and in the common rooms of their resplendent Convents. Orphans, abandoned babies and children deemed uncontrollable or accused of petty crimes were all put in the hands of the nuns who, to the outside world, epitomised kindness and compassion. Gods truth? In the words of one man who had been put into a home after being abandoned by his family: "Some people say to me, 'Well, that's what it was like everywhere then', but it wasn't. Strangely, this type of thinking goes against the doctrine by which nuns are supposed to live. Violence was frequently employed and encouraged with the most common forms being verbal abuse, slaps, blows, and kicks. Nuns indeed put in a lot of hard work. This kind of behavior applies to nuns, as well. Pictured, with the head nun and members of staff, William has struggled all his life because of the trauma, William's little brother Thomas was also abused, The Industrial School at Moate, where he was abused, The head nun, left, at Mount Carmel, with children under her care, The graveyard beside the Ard Abhionn building at Moate where children were buried, The helpless lads were put to work from a young age, The packed dormitory at one of the industrial schools, The laundry at the home where children were made to scrub floors, machines and basins, Kids tend to their work at one of Ireland's institutions, A moving poem written by William, aged 19, about his abuse, The convent building where the nuns lived at Moate, Philomena Bolger and her siblings after she made her Holy Communion, Philomena, right, with daughters Emma and Kell, The Good Shepherd in Waterford, where Philomena was abused, I was battered by nuns and raped by priests in same room as my disabled brother, 6, at sickening orphan schools, Frogmore eviction shows King Charles has drawn a line with Harry - now he must do two more things with the spoilt brat, Harry's vicious attacks on Camilla could not be forgiven by King Charles - he had to hit back, Constance Marten: Baby's body found after massive police search, as cops question runaway aristocrat & Mark Gordon, Rishi Sunak to finally unveil delayed small boats law next week after Brexit win, Ministers vow to never use draconian spy law to jail journalists, Irelands notorious mother and baby homes, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). 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. Oberon Copeland is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, with a degree in economics and HR. During the Age of Exploration, two basic factors influenced the Europeans in their efforts. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. The nuns were terrible.". Buy, Sell, and Trade your Firearms and Gear. August 2018 January 2018, List of the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, Mother and Baby Homes, Industrial Schools of Ireland. Nuns have to obey their superiors, which can lead to a feeling of being trapped and powerless, and it can also lead to nuns being quite resentful towards those in positions of authority. Bob Marley, "We went to explore the Moon & discovered the Earth" Gene Cernan. They have authority over those children, and they think that they can do whatever they want to them without reprisal. (9 Reasons Why). The terror so enthusiastically applied by the Religious Nuns who ran the Magdalene Laundries was very real for the Survivors of such Institutions. (11 Reasons Why). 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. Try to be understanding and compassionate. It's easy! Born into Catholicism and devout as a child, I witnessed cruelty and abuse by Sisters of IHM. 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. In my school the nuns, well a few of them were mean. Jean Guerrier, like her sister, Vera Willshire, recalls the regime at the Nazareth House in Middlesbrough as unrelentingly brutal and frightening. Its not easy to live up to such high standards. Its not easy to grow up in an abusive or neglectful home, which can lead to trauma and emotional damage. Later in life, all the Nuns were exhausted with the monotonous work and the intolerable religious life in the convents attached to the Magdalene Laundries or other institutions to which they were assigned. Are thay taught "Spare the rod spoil the child" in nun school? "I had three sons with my second husband. My child never went to church or catholic upbringing. Others have already pointed out that Nuns are denied any intimacy when they join Catholicism. 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. "We were skivvies, basically. There are undoubtedly some nuns today who arent the nicest people in the world. Remember one more thing: the mothers who dropped their out-of-wedlock children off at the convents had only one other choice at the timethe street. Vicious evil people.. For decades, "bad" Irish girls were sent away to convent-run laundries, where they worked for no pay in awful conditions for years on end. What is it that makes these Nuns so down right nasty mean? Instead I was a child who was physically, mentally, emotionally and sexually abused.. "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst." We were innocent children taken from our mother for no reason, says Philomena. In fact, one priest was a child molester at our high school. So theres hope in breaking this cycle completely, thus decreasing the cruelty that some nuns display. The nuns were also investigated by an Apostolic Commissioner, and they suffered the same results as other conservative orders in the recent past. In Ireland, the Sisters of Mercy operated, from the time of their foundation in 1831, as a series of autonomous convents, each of them subject to the authority and jurisdiction of their local bishop.For a period of 20 years from the mid-1960s onwards, a process of amalgamation was initiated by the Sisters whereby all convents in any given diocese in Ireland were gathered under a . We were beaten with big sticks - the bigger the better. . Start your Independent Premium subscription today. as elsewhere, they became . I was more in shock that the bitch assaulted me. The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, which operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. September 2021 Williams story and many others like him formed the basis of the Ryan Report, published in 2009, which found that sexual and physical abuse were endemic in Irelands industrial schools. 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. 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. It took maybe a week or two to metamorphose the awkward, timid, novice Nuns into the new, confident and vicious Nuns so demonstrably capable of using verbal and physical violence on their captive slave women and their children illegally detained in the religious prisons known as the Magdalene Laundries and other institutions. December 2018 . In the 1930s and 1940s, a conservative revolution ushered in an era in Quebec now known as " The Great Darkness .". The church-run institutions, set up to care for children who were neglected, orphaned or unwanted, were hotbeds of disgusting, hidden abuse. You could get beaten for nothing at all. June 2018 A passive Nun permitted and regulated the actions of the violent ones. My kids have grown up and I have a great relationship with them.. They were let go home on some weekends and hollidays. It seems logical that a person suffering from not being a part of normal life, ie:love, sex, child birth ect ect.. would harbor lots of ill will twords those who cannot help themselves. Archaic teaching methods are now seen as barbaric. Your marriage needs to be annulled (not 'divorced') first. Most - if not all - of the Irish Nuns were from respectable, rural and middle-class families. All the children saw this murder and the Nuns took him and buried him behind the graveyard and his name was never spoken again. See Part One, Two, Four, Five, Six and Seven. It was a very spartan regime. (7 Reasons Why), Why Are Harleys So Expensive? You cannot become a nun if you have been previously married. Power incites, induces and seduces especially when used or mixed with fear. 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. Above all, they tell of a complete lack of love in institutions where bewildered children could not comprehend why they were being treated in such a way or why their families had left them in the hands of the nuns. "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. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? The nuns were so mentally and physically abusive .the lay teachers were the same . Yes, these sisters know there were cruel women among them and they live that sense of betrayal very painfully. "They only did it to make loads of money and to put you to work, to shame you and make you feel like nothing.. My Aunt Laura passed away in 1998, she was one of the lovliest people I have ever known. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. "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. Nuns could be jealous of the attention that Catholic Mothers get. Celibacy is NOT normal for humans. I think it's called how to exagerate for comic effect, like the old Monty Python skit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw, You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. 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. 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. 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. Nuns are supposed to be modest in their appearance, which can lead to them being quite critical of others who dont dress modestly. The Magdalene Laundries were a profitable business for the Nuns and the Cult of the Irish Catholic Church. April 2021 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. They were taught to be tough to survive in the world. 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. However, nuns arent the cruel teachers they used to be. "You could get hammered for anything. Boston College's O'Neill Library says there's even a word for fear of nuns, and it's scenisciphobia. Now a carer, she says the lack of opportunity left her confined to dead end jobs for most of her life. Which makes you think that older women who were long time inmates were in charge of the day to day running of the Laundry. Abuse is only broken when the cycle stops. The daily torturing and beating of the slave women and children enabled the cruelest of the Nuns to assert their place in the Magdalene Laundries and other Institutions. An inquiry last year into Ireland's Magdalene laundries, where for decades thousands of women were forced to work by nuns, found no evidence that workers were abused. "Looking back, I think they really despised the children. I wish all devout Catholics would do the same. Well, I don't think that humans are meant to live without any intimacy; physical or emotional. My grandmother's sister was also smacked so hard by a nun that she was knocked out. 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