Priests sexually abusing nuns

It's not just children that Catholic priests have been sexually abusing - it's nuns as well. Nuns raped and also used as almost slave labor. This has been in the news for some time, at least in Catholic world (see this article at America magazine), but tonight there was a segment about it on the PBS NewsHour ...



The nuns have had the same problems as child sex abuse victims, which is that there is no real accountability within the church for priests who abuse or for those who cover it up. One nun in the above segment who was repeatedly raped by the same guy spoke of suicidal thoughts when her complaints to superiors went unheeded. I just wanted to yell at her, "Go to the efffing cops, lady!"

I will say it again for the millionth time: these problems would be stopped in their tracks if the pope would allow women to be priests and priests to marry. But he won't ... it's not that he can't ... it's that he won't.