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Q & A with Doris Reisinger, theologian at the forefront of the #NunsToo movement

Doris Reisinger, an abuse survivor and former nun, speaks at a news conference in Rome Feb. 19, 2019. (CNS/Paul Haring) Doris Reisinger is one of four speakers in a webinar series on spiritual abuse on April 28 and May 18 by the Union of the European Conferences of Major Superiors. Reisinger was the recipient of the 2020 Christine Schenk Award for Outstanding Young Catholic Leadership by FutureChurch for her testimony and writings about spiritual and sexual abuse of women, particularly women religious, by clergy. She has also been critical of the structures and culture that keep most women in a position of unquestioning obedience to a superior, as FutureChurch notes. That culture, she said in her address (under her former name Doris Wagner) at the Voices of Faith event Overcoming Silence - Women s Voices in the Abuse Crisis in November 2018, is what prevented her from speaking out for two years about her own case of being raped by a priest. She had entered rel

Bringing attention to exploited obedience, spiritual abuse in religious communities

In conversations with other women, we ve discussed how Mary the mother of Jesus is often used as a model for us, but in what we consider a caricature as only mother, pure and chaste, asexual, dedicated to serving others and submissive, and leaving out her need for support, her independence, courage, questioning, strength and authority. Image: a statue of Mary at Our Lady of Fatima in Brazil (Unsplash/Mateus Campos Felipe) There has been much written recently about rising incidents of abuse and violence against women, including an important meeting of the U.N. Commission on Women. Through conversations about this, I also learned of another kind of abuse: spiritual/religious abuse. Although the term was new to me, the stories from women who have experienced it are not new. It was and is experienced in the context of obedience to church leaders, church teachings and projected images of women that tend to shame them.

New book explores plague of abuse in Church s new religious movements

New book explores plague of abuse in Church s new religious movements
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Consecrated life needs foundation built on rock of God s love, says Vatican

Consecrated life needs foundation built on rock of God s love, says Vatican
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