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| Pope Francis |
We faced so many verbal attacks
when we published that there was no divine call into catholic priest, adding
that, it’s just like any other profession where any criminal could go into. The
Pope went ahead to expose the lascivious activities of virtually all the
catholic priests and bishops in the world. According to him, they have sexually
abused reverend sisters and that some of them have been suspended on several
occasions. Speaking further, he said that several examples came from Africa,
where priests have turned to nuns for sex during the spread of AIDS. We now
understand why a certain reverend sister working in a faith-based institution was
frequenting a certain catholic parish house where the parish priest was living
alone, pretending to be helping out in ecclesiastical work, in Lagos Mainland.
Information at our disposal has
it that reverend sisters around the world have suffered sexual abuse by reverend
fathers, sometimes resulting in pregnancy and abortion, but church leaders have
to discipline the reverend fathers involved. Cases of sexual abuse against reverend
sisters have been reported in at least 23 countries.
This is very baffling. A medical
doctor and member of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, Reverend Sister Maura
O’Donohue, stated that catholic priest forcefully have sex with women before
they are given certificates or recommendations needed for work in a diocese. She
also mentioned many disturbing accounts of reverend sisters impregnated by
priests, including one case in Malawi where 29 sisters in one congregation
became pregnant by priests in the diocese. Another example she explained was the
case of a reverend sister who became pregnant by a priest and was brought by
that priest to a Catholic health institution to undergo an abortion. After the
nun died during the procedure, the priest performed her funeral mass.
O’Donohue said that in some
African countries, priests have a liberal interpretation of celibacy, adding
that one priest once said that celibacy, in the African context, barred priests
from getting married, but not from having children. She added that in Africa, reverend
fathers are often better educated than the reverend sisters, and sometimes use
false theological arguments to persuade them to have sex, suggesting, for
example, that sex between two celibate religious people does not violate their
vows of celibacy.
Revealing that church leaders
often failed to punish or reprimand priests for incidents of abuse, O’Donohue stated
that while the priests involved in sexual incidents were usually given mild
reprimands, the nuns were often forced out of the order, adding that when one
superior general complained to an archbishop about incidents of sexual abuse,
she was replaced.
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