No they had a Faith to defend for the living.
You have no idea whether or not they pitied or prayed for these unfortunates or how they treated them or comforted them in life; but you pretend to for your own purposes.
Christianity didn't rise from 11 Apostles of a “dead guy” to nurture learning, science and civilization as we know it today, in the greatest, richest nation ever seen because Christians were weak-minded slobs who didn't know the difference between pity and charity. The fact that these Nuns devoted their lives to taking care of the fallen and neglected is evidence of their Goodness. These "wretches" were ostracized by their own actions. People understood then that were they not ostracized society would have begun the spiral into decadence and hell we are witnessing today, decades earlier. Start counting the "poor of Spirit" today resulting from the stupid destructive leftisim that began in the 1960's. You want "Evil"? There it is.