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Old 08-28-2002, 12:01 PM   #1
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Exclamation More Child Abuse: Nuns this time

I don't know if anyone's heard of <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2034757a12,00.html" target="_blank">this</a> yet.

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<strong>In the latest blow to the Catholic Church's image in Australia, an order of nuns says it has paid tens of thousands of dollars to women who claimed they were sexually and physically abused in an orphanage.


The Poor Sisters of Nazareth said the payments of up to A$75,000 to 13 women were no acknowledgement of guilt.
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Old 08-28-2002, 05:53 PM   #2
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No, just tithings to keep the media gods at bay.
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Old 08-28-2002, 06:34 PM   #3
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Wow... sexually abusing kids in an orphanage... that's LOW... and they accuse atheists of having no morals. Those kids have enough to worry about without having to be afraid of people fondling them - especially nuns!

The media can twist things, though. We all know that. I'm not saying that the nuns actually are guilty, and I'd have to hear both sides of the story before making any sort of intelligent judgement. It's wholly possible, albiet unlikely, that the nuns are just trying to lend a helping hand.

BTW: A$75,000 = about $45,000 US dollars
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Old 08-28-2002, 09:00 PM   #4
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Poor Sisters of Nazareth?

Poor orphans, I say.

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