Vatican magazine for women denounces sexual abuse of nuns by priests

The magazine of Vatican for women denounced the badual abuse against nuns engaged by priests and more "scandal" of the nuns who had to abort or give birth to children whose parents do not recognize.

The February edition of "World of women's church", a monthly magazine distributed with the Vatican newspaper The Osservatore Romano, was released Friday. He referred to the badysis of abuses made by Pope Francis, stating that the power of the mullahs is the root of the problem.

He added that the nuns have been silent for years for fear of reprisals against themselves or against their orders if they denounced abusive priests.

Publication meansNo notable public recognition of the Vatican interior a problem that the Holy See has been experiencing for some time, but which has done little or nothing to cope.

Last year, after The badociated press and other media reported the scandal, the international badociation of women's religious orders urged sisters to report abuse to superiors and police, breaking the silence that for many years has hidden the problem.

In her article, the director of the magazine, Lucetta Scaraffia, observe that for centuries women in the church were presented as "dangerous and seductive", which prevented the Catholic hierarchy from recognizing that she could be the victim of unwanted badual advances from priests.

"But in this case, the badysis of abuses made by Pope Francis can be useful: if we highlight the power and clericalism, the abuse against the nuns have another aspect and can be recognized as such: an act of power in which touch becomes a violation of intimacy staff, "he writes.

According to this article, in the 90s, religious presented reports to officials of the Vatican about theSexual shrubs against nuns by priests in Africa, where they were considered couples "safe" in the midst of the HIV crisis.

Although little or nothing has changed, religious women in developing and rich countries are starting to denounce the abuses they suffer as part of a general demand for increased women in the Church, a derivation of the countryside. #MeToo

"If the Church continues to turn a blind eye to the scandal "seized by the fact that the abuse of women causes procreation and therefore leads to forced abortions and children not recognized by the priests", the oppression of women in the Church will never change", writes Scaraffia.

"World of women's church", which appears in Italian, French and Spanish, had a great impact last year with an edition devoted to "work" and an article denouncing the fact that nuns are often treated as servants by cardinals and bishops, for who they cook and clean pay almost zero. The current edition is devoted to the meaning of "touch" and how it can be perverted.

Anna Foa, an eminent intellectual intellectual, wrote in an editorial of the presentation that abuse transforms the caress, this fundamental aspect of love, into an expression itself suspicious and virtually obscene.

Foa also quotes Francisco when "He thanked the journalists who were honest and objective in denouncing the predatory priests and making the voices of the victims heard."