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Gilderoy ago

This brings back childhood memories of my grandmother telling me dark tales of how she was abused by nuns when she was a little girl growing up in Nebraska, circa the early 1900's. (My grandmother was in her 90's when I was 10.) The nuns were German and didn't like my grandmother because she took after her French father and had dark hair. They would lock her in the closet for hours at a time and force her to go alone to the outhouse on dark winter nights. My grandmother, who was a devout Catholic, couldn't abide nuns after her terrible experiences.

carmencita ago

I will not send this to Judith. She has had enough lately. They lambasted her in those recent articles countering what the grand jury reported and about Benestad. This is SRA most definitely. Things pop into her head at times and she must face them. Horrid. She is strong though. I don't know how she does it. Nor the people in this article. There are not enough hours in the day to pray for all the people we have read about. I am so sorry for your Grandmother. Bless Them All. +

Gilderoy ago

I see that Alex Jones is talking about pedophile priests and SRA with Leo Zagami tonight. As more of this comes out, I just can't imagine how the rank-and-file Catholics are going to process it all.

Thoughts and prayers for Judith that she will find peace and healing. I keep hearing the verse: "Where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more." There is a reason why God allowed her to suffer so much, and He will carry her through this valley of darkness. I don't pretend to understand the mystery of evil and sin and suffering, but I do know trials and suffering have a formative power and can give spiritual strength and extraordinary capacities that might be needed to help many other people.

carmencita ago

It is her strength that has pushed this news of Benestad forward. She is giving others strength and I know that she is a strong woman. I also know that she saw this report and she made it through reading it all. I really think at this point she wants to know it all, she wants to know the good and the bad so that she knows what lies ahead. I think this news when it comes out will put another nail in his coffin. I really don't know what it will take anymore, if this does not make him step down. If this does not do it, they will have to produce a video or picture of him with a boy. Even then they will say it has been manufactured in some way. I am so sick of the rank and file. WHAT WILL IT TAKE?

Gilderoy ago

Divine intervention, that's what it will take, I believe. The system is so broken, and Catholics are so apathetic and out-to-lunch. We need a strong group of cardinals to depose the pope and expose all the corruption, but there are none to be found. Cardinal Burke was supposed to be the great white hope, but he's nowhere to be seen.

carmencita ago

I saw Burke's name mentioned in an article but have read so many............ I have not heard him speak out though either. There is the Conservative Faction of the Vatican that has been rumored to be trying to take over. Nothing will change until Francis resigns and they banish the Lavender Mafia from the halls of the Holy House of God where the devil now resides.