Some senior nuns are abusing their power, including by denying sisters healthcare and warm clothes, a report in a Catholic journal said on Friday
The Jesuit review Civilta Cattolica said that the problem of abuse of power by senior nuns “has not so far had sufficient attention”.
Some mother superiors cling to power for decades or bring members of their own family to live in the convent to be “hosted and cared for for free”.One mother superior “took her mother into the sisters’ community until her death, allowing her to share the community space for about 20 years.
Complicity between the mother superior and the convent bursar “ends up allowing complete control of assets”. In January, Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz revealed that former nuns “abandoned” by the Catholic Church, including some who became prostitutes to survive, had been sheltered at a Vatican residence set up by Pope Francis.
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