Posted on 11/17/2012 5:36:23 AM PST by Renfield
A Catholic nun has been charged with the “systematic” abuse of seven schoolgirls in the 1970s. Sister Mary Teresa Grogan has denied the 63 counts of indecent assault put to her.
It is alleged that these crimes took place while she was teaching in a primary school (middle school) in the midlands of Ireland from 1973 to 1977. All of her victims were the same age, in third class, approximately nine-years-old.
One complainant told the court that the nun would call her to her desk and put her hand inside her underwear.
The lawyer for the prosecution, Aileen Donnelly SC, said that during the trial the other complainants would be giving evidence to the court of “highly similar” but not identical assaults, the Irish Times reports.
Many of the victims attended the trial on Tuesday at the Sligo Circuit Court.
RTE reports that Grogan has spent time in the missions in Africa but returned a number of years ago when one of the alleged victims made a complaint to the police and an investigation into her behavior began.
Grogan (62) pleaded “not guilty” 63 times for each of the charges.
The trial before Judge Donagh McDonagh is expected to continue for two to three weeks.
I also went to Catholic schools in the Bronx. Most of the nuns I had as teachers were decent and learned educators. One however, almost kileed this kid in the fourth grade. She was a mean mal-adjusted bully who should have been locked up. All she ever wanted to do was beat on kids.
Pretend that the clergy should be held to the same low standards as the rest of the population so you can continue blissfully in your morally anesthetized state.
of course: to whom much is given, much is expected. and when a priest or minister goes looey that way, he has access to more opportunities to wreak havoc than the ordinary joe.
What a nunsensical thing for her to do.
I almost thought it was Gropin’, not Grogan.
There human beings, with all that entails, you pompous, self-righteous twit.
What is a Romulan or a governm?
It’s supposed to be people who want to submit to holiness, which ought to dampen down that “average human being” child molestation impulse. Not give it a privileged platform to carry on as if what were being assented to were a bunch of meaningless ceremony.
Christian faith certainly is nothing unless based on the personal love of (and submission to) God. However it’s a shame, and disappoints God, if it does not go further. God wants His children to combat evil in the world and to encourage His other children.
Maybe you should appoint yourself Pope or Archduke or something. Then you can show everybody how it should be done.
But keep in mind, the building and the seating aren’t what matters. That could all go away and it’s the people under their God, with God moving in them (if He truly does) that matters. I gladly admit my very Protestant bias as a fightin’ fundie, but still... some things need to go into perspective.
Why? There already is a cloud of witnesses.
My husband went to catholic school until the 10th grade. He called the nuns Sister black and decker pecker wreckers..They asked him to leave after the 10th grade along with a couple of his friends...I guess since nuns don’t have children, they find it hard to spend all day with them....boys unlike girls are not prone to be quiet and sit still for 8 hours....But as an adult he was an usher, member of the mens club, voted president of the mens club attended Mass every sunday..(he was 19 when we married) and NO it was not because I was preg...I was 18 and we raised 5 kids without government benefits of any kind. Except I do collect widow benefits for SS but had to take a 30% discount in amount when I did at age 59 1/2..
Indeed, why not monks for the boys? Where are the monks?
Congratulations. You are now officially on both sides of the fence.
Decent monks, to be sure. For almost anyone that would go without saying. Unless you are trying to insinuate double entendre or something similar, in which case please don’t go away mad, just go away.
Take your own advice.
Hey, nut, there are enough folks doing it decently and you can see how glorious it is when they do do it decently. And how horrible it is when such a post is used by a gutter life.
Shoo, scat. Be on your way.
Begone, avaunt!
Your name-calling evinces the poverty of your argument (as does your apparently poor grasp of proper English spelling).
But be that as it may, St. Paul made it clear that those who serve the Church must be much better than average. Our beloved Paul makes that abundantly clear. If a person isn't better than average, then he or she shouldn't be in the clergy. Thus, your position flatly contradicts Scripture.
1 Timothy 3 1It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. 2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. 4He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity 5(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?), 6and not a new convert, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil. 7And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
8Deacons likewise must be men of dignity, not double-tongued, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain, 9but holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. 10These men must also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons if they are beyond reproach. 11Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things. 12Deacons must be husbands of only one wife, and good managers of their children and their own households. 13For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a high standing and great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
But you go ahead and judge them too. Like anybody cares what you think.
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