Thank you for this. I am blessed with a spiritual director who loves his vocat I on and respects and supports my calling as well. I have had priests cross lines in my life, taking advantage of emotional distress and spiritual troubles. To find priests (and there are many) who treat women as friends and sisters in Christ and whose private and public conduct are in perfect accord is such a blessing. It brings us back to Christ. Taking advantage of that relationship is diabolical!
It is so encouraging that this type of mistreatment is now being discussed and acknowledged and dealt with. Thank you to the Sisters and their supporters.
I am grateful for this post as well. My experience of "spiritual direction" in seminary was nothing but spiritual, emotional, and psychological abuse. (One of the reasons I left seminary.) Abuse that has taken three rounds of therapy and ongoing medication to treat. It is heartbreaking to read stuff like this and to see the Church's continued refusal to do much about it, from the Holy Father on down. I go to mass, take the Sacraments, but otherwise have nothing to do -- nor want to have anything to do -- with the Church for my own spiritual, emotional, and psychological health.
Thank you for this. I am blessed with a spiritual director who loves his vocat I on and respects and supports my calling as well. I have had priests cross lines in my life, taking advantage of emotional distress and spiritual troubles. To find priests (and there are many) who treat women as friends and sisters in Christ and whose private and public conduct are in perfect accord is such a blessing. It brings us back to Christ. Taking advantage of that relationship is diabolical!
I came forward against my abuser because someone else did first. You've absolutely been a trailbreaker on this.
It is so encouraging that this type of mistreatment is now being discussed and acknowledged and dealt with. Thank you to the Sisters and their supporters.
Why did you not report this to the local government authority? That is the legal method That is available.
Which incident are you referring to?
I am grateful for this post as well. My experience of "spiritual direction" in seminary was nothing but spiritual, emotional, and psychological abuse. (One of the reasons I left seminary.) Abuse that has taken three rounds of therapy and ongoing medication to treat. It is heartbreaking to read stuff like this and to see the Church's continued refusal to do much about it, from the Holy Father on down. I go to mass, take the Sacraments, but otherwise have nothing to do -- nor want to have anything to do -- with the Church for my own spiritual, emotional, and psychological health.