Posted on 08/28/2018 8:14:22 AM PDT by MeganC
It was a late summer afternoon, Sally Dale recalled, when the boy was thrown through the fourth-floor window.
“He kind of hit, and— ” she placed both hands palm-down before her. Her right hand slapped down on the left, rebounded up a little, then landed again.
For just a moment, the room was still. “Bounced?” one of the many lawyers present asked. “Well, I guess you’d call it — it was a bounce,” she replied. “And then he laid still.”
Sally, who was speaking under oath, tried to explain it. She started again. “The first thing I saw was looking up, hearing the crash of the window, and then him going down, but my eyes were still glued—.” She pointed up at where the broken window would have been and then she pointed at her own face and drew circles around it. “That habit thing, whatever it is, that they wear, stuck out like a sore thumb.”
A nun was standing at the window, Sally said. She straightened her arms out in front of her. “But her hands were like that.”
There were only two people in the yard, she said: Sally herself and a nun who was escorting her. In a tone that was still completely bewildered, she recalled asking, Sister?
Sister took hold of Sally’s ear, turned her around, and walked her back to the other side of the yard. The nun told her she had a vivid imagination. We are going to have to do something about you, child.
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> Shame you’d make a good one
And thank you for the kind words.
I enjoy watching Blue Bloods, because they always gather for Sunday dinner after church, and they always give thanks to the Lord for their meal before eating.
We had a sister that was absolutely terrifying. The inspiration for Darth Vader. I can easily see her doing this.
She would bloody kids noses. We would rather get molested by a priest.
The Catholic Church has been like that for centuries.
The whole system is corrupt by design.
No one knows the percent that has yet to be revealed.
More importantly the leadership purposely covered up the abuse, hid the abusers, and moved the abusers to fertile ground... all the while adding more homo clergy.
Read the entire article. It brought back a memory of something my mother said. She detested nuns and I mean, DETESTED nuns. One of her brothers lost sight in one of his eyes when a nun poked his eye swinging a long stick with a pointed rubber tip at his head. Caught him in the eye, I guess. My father had to become a Catholic in order to marry my mom (her family’s insistence) and promise to raise the children as Catholics. He took it seriously, to this day. My mom? I can only recall her going into a Mass very rarely. She would tell us that the Church would threaten families that if they got nuns or priests in trouble it would hurt the church, which would cause a decrease of priests, leading to no Sacraments being given resulting in going to Hell. She said it absolutely terried the Old-School Catholics to even think of going up against the Catholic Church. She was glad when people finally started talking. True story. Sigh.
Thank you for telling about that. I just did some reading and learned about a part of US history I never knew before!
Megan
My grandmother had a similar distaste for all things Catholic although I don’t think she ever explained what it was all about. One has to wonder.
Compare with the Nuns of the St. Mary’s Orphanage in Galveston during the 1900 Hurricane. Still one of the most heartbreaking stories I’ve ever read.
https://www.1900storm.com/orphanage.html
? J u s t . h o w VETTED was this [hit] piece ?
You and others are swallowing it whole.
People have been known to take delight in faking this stuff. There have been hit pieces going around and I accuse as gullible anyone who swallows this.
So the Catholic church ran a well-organized child-abuse/sex ring for many years that fed children to powerful people, yet there’s no way that Pizzagate is real?
I am a Catholic. I survived the Catholic schools of the 1960s. Caught quite a few beatings from those old fossils. This is entirely believable.
Did you go to Catholic schools in the 1960s? I did. This is entirely believable to me.
My mom at the end of her life spent one year in a Catholic nursing home. She was 90. No one here would believe me if I told you those Polish nuns were straight out of The Sound of Music. They wore the complete habit, as well. They, and the Polish priest who serviced the home, came to my mom’s funeral and prayed the Rosary in Polish. I was so touched and moved by their love and devotion.
But it just doesn’t fit the narrative here.
Imagine living a life devoid of love and normal sexual love and pleasure. I hated the old fossils I had to endure.
started in the 60’s...my mother also went to Catholic school for 12 years in the 40’s & 50’s- nothing like this ever happened to her...and again- if you READ my post i said i could believe this happened but it is the exception to the rule...
My college bought out an old Catholic property — absolutely gorgeous grounds, and amazing architecture. Beautiful. The monastery was on one side of the road; convent was across the street. On the convent grounds was a cemetery that had a section of several very small tombstones, completely unmarked.
Cemeteries don’t bother me at all. We used to play in one near our churchyard when we were little. I visit the family cemetery alone when I go home to visit. THIS cemetery, though, made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and I couldn’t be there. Ditto for my friends. We didn’t know why, but we stayed away.
I could only make it one third the way through the article.
I had to stop, tears in my eyes.
Death to anyone who would do that to a child, even RC sisters.
Did you bother READING IT before you decided that you didn’t like the article?
Did you go to the Facebook page of the orphans?
https://www.facebook.com/Children-of-St-Josephs-Orphanage-in-Burlington-VT-271630159546764/
Did you listen to the testimony?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o13yTTAeM30
Did you bother checking for corroborating articles?
This one is from 2015:
This one is from 2002:
http://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories3/111402_nun.htm
Maybe even this simple history that mentions how the Catholic church sold the property to pay for their legal settlements?
http://www.uvm.edu/~hp206/2012/leckie/webfinal/stjorphan.html
There’s archived accounts...
https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-15751602/adults-worry-that-church-won-t-confess-its-sins
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.true-crime/2H8-zz4dRls/3Txh8FfzvhwJ
And so much more if you bothered to look.
So what’s your point here? To try to cast shade on abuses that the Catholic church accepted liability for already?
I invite you to do your homework before you carry on with this nonsensical attempt to discredit scores of victims and in some cases the freely admitted accounts of their tormentors.
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