[kelly4c]

There’s a movie that came out about 10 years ago called “The Magdalene sisters.” It’s based on true accounts of some girls who lived in one of the homes for “fallen” women that the Catholic church ran. It starts off with the main character at a party and her cousin lures her into a closet or small room and rapes her. She’s devastated and tells her sister, who tells her mother, and so on. Anyhow she ends up being blamed for the rape, at least partially, and gets sent to this place where some of the nuns can be pretty cruel.

[crazycatlady]

Magdalene laundries, right? I wanted to see that.

[boatbums]

Those of us who attended Catholic school growing up will tell you there WERE many nuns we could envision acting that way. Oh, the stories I could tell...!

That's not to say, of course, that many nuns aren't loving, gentle and Christ-like and who serve the Lord with gladness. I had a few of those, too.

[Albion Wilde]

Myths of the Magdalene Laundries

[Elsie]

Anyhow she ends up being blamed for the rape, at least partially, and gets sent to this place where some of the nuns can be pretty cruel.