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Sr. Marie Duffy had it all planned out, she said.
Settled comfortably into her congregation s retirement facility, Camilla Hall, the 87-year-old Immaculate Heart of Mary sister, a former guidance counselor, would embrace the second calling in her life. I can t wait until I can have coffee, have time to pray and not to drive, and just be with God, Duffy said she remembers thinking. She enjoyed a year with friends on the independent living floor.
Then came the pandemic. After that, a fall. And on Sept. 11, 2020, Duffy entered a local hospital, where she had three surgeries on her leg and hip. For five months, she was bed bound.
From left: Anne Gleeson at age 12 in 1971; Gleeson in 2019; Cáit Finnegan as a high school student in the 1960s; Finnegan today. Both women spoke to Global Sisters Report about their sexual abuse by a woman religious. (Provided photos)
Editor s note: The overwhelming majority of people in religious life who have been accused of sexual abuse have been men. Credible accusations have also been made against women religious, but there has been relatively little coverage of those cases. As an independent, nonprofit source of news and information about Catholic sisters, Global Sisters Report devotes most of its resources to the good work sisters perform around the world. But we re committed to telling the full story of women religious, and that includes stories like this one. This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Part 2 will publish Feb. 25.
Do words ever grab you? What about the people who turned up to listen to Donald Trump? He d spend an hour simply haranguing, insulting and demeaning people. At least to me it all sounded vile and appealing to our worst instincts. Millions are greatly impressed with him.