NB please: Updates previous to this one have been moved to the last page on the navigation bar, entitled "Monastery Soap Opera"; to read those previous episodes of the "saga" chronologically, start at the bottom of the page and read toward the top of that page.

Please be aware that the repercussions of PTSD and other sufferings are just as horrid for those kids physically and emotionally abused as for those who are sexually abused.

August 2005 Update, per your requests    

While i find i resent time taken from survivor issues to update what is being done to us, it is all about the same thing: the abuse of Power.  i am using whatever is done to us to show the pattern of what the survivors have been experiencing since long before 2002.

Folks have asked how things are going. One person expressed concern that since i hadn't updated the site since April, she worried the website is closed. It is not closed.

One call in particular, caused me to reflect upon the past year. It was just about a year ago—mid July—that the bishop came with his chancellor/canon lawyer. They came, seeming to try to shut us down. Or to intimidate us with the seeming attempt.  As far as we have ever been able to tell, anyway.

It was just shortly after that, and because of that, that we asked a friend and fellow parishioner to read a brief paragraph to the parishioners at a parish meeting, telling them that the bishop had seemed to try to shut us down, over our website that we have in advocacy for survivors and victims (RIP) of sexual abuse by nuns and priests and the hierarchy which enabled them.

The parish priest, in a subsequent letter, expressed his distress that we had not asked his permission to address the parishioners, and especially that we had let the parishioners know at all about the problem, instead of keeping it secret from them. At that meeting, the priest then went on (and on), according to what we were told by a number of parishioners, to "decree" that "if the sisters are censored by the bishop they will no longer receive support from the parish."

We have never been supported by the parish or the diocese. There have been a handful of extremely kind parishioners who have personally helped us with projects, and sometimes food, on occasion, but those were personal gifts; not gifts from the parish.

At any rate, we were never censored by the bishop, or if we were, he never bothered to notify us of it.

But we have surely been "slapped around" as though we'd been censored. Some new form of "slap" seems to follow each update of this website, in predictable pattern.

An abridged timeline: