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Nun, 79, declines to fight case
November 12, 2007 A nun who taught in Chicago-area Roman Catholic schools for more than three ...
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2007-11-15 01:04:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
NOthing!,,,there probably wouldn't be any nuns if he did.... I only met 2 nice nuns in my life.....the rest were just mean ladies that didn't like kids
2007-11-15 01:10:45 · answer #1 · answered by Eileen J 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
there's always a process of exhorting religious nuns according to specific rule of the congregations in which the nuns belong or to the local Bishops in which they pledge obedience to. There's also the Canon Law of the Catholic Church. In that case, legal sanction is also applied in such case.
2007-11-15 01:10:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
A nun who commits a crime against children in the U.S., according to the USCCB rules, is to be turned over to authorities AND to receive discipline from her ordinary. That might be the local bishop, if she is in a diocesan order, or it might be the superior of her order if she's not (such as being a Dominican or whatever).
Apart from the standard civil retribution (jail time or whatever), the sister in question might also be booted out of her order, regulated to menial tasks that prevent her from any contact with laypersons (when her jail term is over, I mean), etc., depending on what her superior finds to be appropriate.
2007-11-15 01:48:28 · answer #3 · answered by sparki777 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
if you really wanted to know, child abuse occurs far more frequently among general population. Children have much higher chance of being abused by family members than by priests of nuns...
catholics are the ONLY ones abusing children ? ya thunk ? it never happens in any other religion, right ?
but that was not the *point* of your *question* was it ?
2007-11-15 01:10:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Always pathetic to see catholics defend the abuse, by saying "It happens in other places too".
Their parents never taught them "two wrongs don't make a right".
2007-11-15 01:24:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The decision is not the Pope's. It is the bishop in whose diocese the nun works in.
2007-11-15 01:08:39 · answer #6 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
What do American Public schools do to female teachers who plead no contest to child abuse?
2007-11-15 01:09:24 · answer #7 · answered by James O 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
guess they get transferred just like the sick priests.
2007-11-15 01:11:54 · answer #8 · answered by jesussaves 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋