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[widowithfoursons]

At the risk of sounding callous, if they can come up with the Spanish Inquisition, why is this surprising?

[Loyalist]

Stories of depravity in the convent are as old as The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk and most of them probably about as accurate.

On the other hand, if a homosexual conspiracy can infiltrate the priesthood, then why should nuns be immune from same?

[MonroeDNA]

I would love to see the breakdown between Priests and Nuns, regarding all categories of abuse and harassment.

They lump them together...

[blackdog]

My Father-in-law's family.......Him, a priest, bailed out after two years, a violent homophobe, drunk, wife beater, child beater, steal anything not nailed down, adulterer.

His sister, a nun of fifteen years, left the order to live with her girlfriend. A real sweet guilt ridden lesbian school teacher.

His brother, a guy who was in the seminary, extremely intelligent, married an ugly woman, had a child, ran off with another man, computer programmer, died of AIDS.

Me......I have no stomach for the Catholic Church any more.

[TheMole]

One in eight nuns said she had been sexually exploited. Of those, nearly three of every four maintained she was victimized by a priest, nun or other religious person. The exploitation included everything from pressure for "dates" to requests for sexual favors to sexual intercourse. Two of every five nuns who said they had been sexually exploited said the exploitation involved some form of genital contact.

OK, let's do the arithmetical translation.

1 in 8 nuns said she was "sexually exploited" = 7 of 8 nuns have never been sexually exploited

of that 1/8, 3 of 4 were exploited by a "religious person"=3/32 of nuns were exploited by another nun or priest

2/5 of the exploited nuns underwent some kind of "genital contact"=2/5 x 3/32= 3/80 = 3.75% of nuns say they have experienced sexual exploitation by a priest, nun, or other religious person that involved genital contact

Well, that is 3.75% too many to be sure, but I don't think this story will go quite as far as some people are hoping. BTW, I am not a Catholic.