last days?

[chefxh]

The Catholic Church in Ireland can no longer contain its own abusive-priests scandalThe part that really bugs me? Catholic parents have permitted -- nay, encouraged! -- that their children be verbally and psychologically abused by Catholic clergy at school for centuries. Explicit permission is (or at least was) given to the nuns and priests and

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[chefxh]

*shrug* well, yeah, the convent WAS the place for Catholic queers, but in the mid-19th century they were the best-educated women in the world.

I have to admit it's kind of sad to see Mount St. Scholastica down to 179 souls from the seeming thousands of nuns I remember there from the 1960s. Even weirder is that my sister's classmate is now the mother superior.