Survivors Molested by Nuns Will Gather in Denver This Weekend, Aug 1-4
From an email received from Denver SNAP Leader Jeb Barrett, 7.31.2008.
Thanks, Jeb.
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A small group of SNAP members from across the country who were molested by nuns will be in Denver for the next few days, trying to draw public attn to the national meeting of the nuns’ organization (Leadership Conference of Women Religious) at the Sheraton Denver , 1550 Court Place, Denver, CO 80202.
There’ll probably be news conferences/events on
– Friday in Denver , around 1:30 pm
– Saturday in Cheyenne WY
– Sunday in Denver (maybe leafleting a church) and
– possibly Monday in Denver
For details:
Mary Guentner of Milwaukee , WI , SNAP Milwaukee Co-Director (414) 418-3191
Steve Theisen of Hudson, IA , SNAP Iowa Director (319) 231-1663
THANKS! Please try to join & support these brave survivors who are working hard to find and help others who’ve been victimized by nuns.
As I receive further information on locations and actual times, I will forward it.
(Jeb’s email address is SNAPdenver@comcast.net)
13 Responses to “Survivors Molested by Nuns Will Gather in Denver This Weekend, Aug 1-4”
August 1, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Gee, I hope the survivors will bring some rulers, paddles and any other parapherernalia with them in case the nuns get out of line. Make sure their hems of their skirts are 2 inches below knee, or if not rip them out, and their nails are cut so they can’t claw anyone in the face. Does everyone have their wash board knee’s with them.
Why are they going to a hotel?, will there be supervison there, only “independent” women stay in hotels. Aren’t they worried about staying in a secular place where many evils dwell?.
Where do they get the money to pay for this? Isn’t there a “Catholic College or University” that will accomodate them?
deanna
August 1, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Dear SNAP members you have my support. I cannot be there physically to stand by your side in Denver, however, my thouhts stand by you!
deanna
August 1, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Dear Snap members at the end of the day in Denver, put your bathing suits on and go for a swim, a sauna or go to the local gym and gives yourself something refreshing.
“Pope John Paul had a glass and concrete olympic size swimmming pool at his disposal. The pope’s watery playpen is more than just a swimming pool for it includes a sauna, solarium, and gymnasium”.
“The Incredible Book of Vatican Facts & Papal Curiosities.
by Nino Lo Bello”
So go ahead and indulge yourselves.
deanna
August 1, 2008 at 10:57 pm
I am so proud of all the survivors of nuns for the work they do in publicizing this most serious problem. So far from what I can tell, the sisters have been as immoral and deceptive as their fellow priests.
It is not too late to change things sisters!
August 2, 2008 at 3:00 pm
this is to “do you know what you are talking about” deanna leonti:
i will have to correct your narrssisst, roman catholic italian western mentality of the mafia genome.you are aware that rome was the brutalist empire and stole everything including civilization and culture from the east. the mafia vatican has sovernity and more power than you could even imagine. that and canon law gives them the freedom to perpetrate vicious crimes against children.
and don’t you even dare to try to diminish mine and 1500 other children’s tradedies and mine particularly tortuiois because of my lebananese/ syrian decent to a mere spanking or scrubbing on our knees. many of us were treated like abu garib where we were made to get in line and hold up our soiled underwear and wear them on our heads. one girlo after 40 years ago recanted to me her memories and horrors and decribed sister loretta as satanic. she remembered sister loretta, irish sisters of mercy, the same order that the irish government compensated victims that ran the industrial institutions in ireland; anyway she would line us up against the wall and force our mouths shut and punch us under the chin and cause us to choke. i remember the nuns beating me so bad and constantly yelling at me as they threw me on the concrete floors and pounded on my spine like a drum and would kick me saying “you nare here because you are worthless and your mother and father don’t love you or want you and to serve the church”. sister loretta would constantly humiliate and belittle another girl by the name of finnigan telling her that her mother was a slut. my friend told me she remembers it clearly 40 years later. and the time she punched litlle pencook in the chest and he was so frail that he went flying across the supply room. girl; you can’t even begin to imagine the velocity of it all, i will give you a clue; the movie released three years ago called “the magdalene sister’s”. the same order as ours and a trrue story.
in conclusion, children between the ages of 5 and 18, or even of any age should ever be subjucated to child labor, physical and mental torture and constant brainwashing and ripped away from the parents and home. here in america and yes this happened and yes it was an american tragedy and you are part of this great calamity with your menatality of how society should and does take care of it’s future of this country if it is to survive. but thoughts like yours is how rome disintegrated and crushed itself beneath it’s own soil. rome’s society was so decadent that it comsmed itself.
as i finish i can suredly say father mccarren and the nuns and the two orphanages and the pittsburgh diocese and america did not crush me. they isolated and branded me as achild and even told me i was different, i was the only middle eastern child there and oh yes they even seperated me from my sister patricia in the same orphange and we were only a year apart. but i say to all of you out there; no you can’t steal and rob me of my identity, culture, and sense of who i am. just like yeshua said “i am”. i am not god but i believe in yeshua and believe he loves me and i try to remember that all of us ar made in his image. but i can’t let anyone take from me my dignity and love of my parents. just as it was hard for mary to watch her son die on the cross it was hard for my mother to have all her children ripped away from her and for her to watch their abuse. when i got out of the orphanage at 18 i had only three years to get to kow mother and spend guality time with her. she died in march 1971. father died when i was in st. paul’s orphanage in feb. 1961. father mccarren had a drink that day, i went to the funeral, and then back to the orphanage.
rosemary alam {my arabic name}
August 3, 2008 at 4:02 am
Dear Rosemary Alam,
I am all for you and yes i am aware of the horrendous crimes from the RC, that’s part of the reason I left the church.
and “Thank You” for telling me what you went through, it just re-affirms my leaving RC& Orthodox, and any other ties to them. I get so damn mad and angered about these real-life stories from victims like yourself.
The reason why I mentioned about PJPII swimming pool was that if it was good enough for him, it is good enough for all of us to enjoy and take care of ourselves like he did and many of the other religous orders.
They preach one thing and do the opposite, we should be allowed to pamper ourselves and not feel guilty for it, even if it is swimming like JPII did. Who knows what other methods the religious use to pamper & justify their actions under health guidelines.
deanna
( standing by you all the way)
August 3, 2008 at 11:13 am
has anyone ever made a movie that tried to stick the closest to what goes on like in the
movie “the magdalene sister’s”.
“Former Magdalen inmate Mary-Jo McDonagh told Mullan that the reality of the Magdalene Asylums was much worse than depicted in the film”.
deanna
on another note, has anyone ever heard of the documented film about a convent w/aborted babies buried in and around the convent grounds?
I have heard from many that this aired in maybe the 6o’s or 70’s, and wonderd if it is still out there somewhere I can rented it?
I do not know why movies and documentaries such as these are not aired more often.
deanna
August 3, 2008 at 11:43 am
I get shocked evertime I see and hear of all of these horrors.
What I can’t understand is? there has to be some on the inside of religous orders who are aware of these horrifying crimes that went on, and are going on and yet still allow thier minds to be in-doctrinated by those that they have a “faith” in about what? “a religion inwhich they have created a distorted image about “God”.
Impose a dictatortship rule under the guise of a contorted dogma inwhich they have created?.
I said it before and I’ll say it again.
Hitler had a similar if not the same hold on people.
deanna
August 3, 2008 at 11:52 am
then again, I think Hiltler was raised Catholic……
deanna
August 3, 2008 at 11:58 am
with all of the created dogma & doctrines around and being imposed upon everyone
is there a place where one can be granted a “immunity from religion”?
deanna
August 3, 2008 at 12:40 pm
dear deanna
please accept my apology for my ignorance in my misinterpretation of what you were communicating; i was wrong in my assessment and am sorry. i just finished therapy and what im learned about myself is that it is hard for me to trust and so9metimes figure out what people are really saying. that is a result of the constant brainwashing as a chilld and not having any selfworth as in feeling selfless. the oposite of selfish.
i am comforted that you understand and it renews my faith that in america there really are some good and caring people and i thank you for your support; and again i am sorry if i offended you in any way.
yes the roman catholic church has many dark secrets and tactics and i feel bad for anyone that has gone through what i did and some even worse that ended up dead. i have to be their voice. what amazes me is how after all the abuse and degradation i and others can be so resilient and courageous while others have committed suicide. this shouldn’t happen in any country, but america is touted tio be the bastion of all countries.
i heard about the babies being found in the walls of a convent somewhere in d.c. but didn’t know a movie was made around that. didn’t know “the magadalene sister’s” was a diluted version of what really took place but directors have to be careful in these situations creating or re-enacting events. i will google these two movies background and what i come up with. i am writing my journals or autobiography and will publish it in memory of “mary elizabeth simon” who was my mother; my mission is to heal and bring a dignified closure to the undignified life she had endured. our mothers are so important and she was the only one who truly loved me and i can say atleast once i was truly loved.
rosemary
August 3, 2008 at 4:31 pm
it’s alright..no apology needed…I should be more clear on what I write, and how I want it to be interperted.
will you please put me on the list to have a copy of your autobiography book?
love,
deanna
August 3, 2008 at 5:57 pm
dear deanna
i would be happy to put you on the list for a book. at first i thought people wouldn’t want to read such a gloomy book especially about the church in a christian nation; i am still feeling my way around with it but i have to be brutally honest and at the same time not set a tone of hatred and revenge like my perpetrators. in order to effect change i have to find a way of reaching people and not turning society off. it is a delicate balance to achieve. anyway it is also therraputic for me to write and put the pieces of my chilhood together. maybe it can helpthers to learn from what happened to me and my family.
it is a healthy challenge and i want to some day feel i have accomplished something out of all this trauma.
peace and honor,
rosemary