Quotes from above posts:
"Through prayers and faith,favor could be obtained though."
"everyone gets according to what he/she deserves"

It all sounds enticing but does it ring true in reality? By praying and having faith God will bless you? That "favor could be obtained" from God? What a sad joke religion plays on the innocent and naive.

Here is an old news story about the atrocities committed by priests. Please take a couple minutes to read it. Note especially the last paragraph about the nun. She dedicated her life to God to be a nun and probably prayed her guts out asking God for help. Assaulted by a priest she tragically ends up dead. A life destroyed and wasted. Where was God for the nun in her greatest time of need?

"The uselessness of prayer once again demonstrated by the christians themselves." This quote from a previous post above may be truer than you think.

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Philip Willan in Rome
The Guardian, Tuesday 20 March 2001 20.20 EST


Catholic priests abusing nuns for sex

Roman Catholic priests and bishops in several parts of the world have been exploiting their religious authority to obtain sexual favours from nuns, in some cases resorting to rape and subsequently obliging the victims to seek an abortion, it was claimed yesterday.

Report of widespread sexual abuses were compiled by two senior nuns between 1994 and 1998 and passed to the Vatican, the Rome daily La Repubblica and the Italian Roman Catholic news agency Adista said.

Abuses were documented in 23 countries, many of them in Africa, but also in Ireland, Italy, the US, the Philippines and Brazil, they said.

"The superior of a religious community in one country was contacted by priests who asked her to make the nuns available for sexual services," she wrote.

On the superior's refusal, the priests said they would otherwise have to go to the village to look for women, exposing themselves to the risk of Aids."

The reports, one of which is said to have been delivered three years ago to Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo, head of the Vatican department responsible for religious orders, say young female candidates for religious life are sometimes obliged to have sex with a priest to obtain the necessary certificates.

Nuns who became pregnant were forced to leave their religious congregation, the reports say, while the priests responsible were simply sent away for a brief period.

In one community 29 nuns are reported to have become pregnant after sexual relations with priests, but when the mother superior raised the problem with her archbishop she was removed from her post. One priest is said to have induced a nun he had impregnated to have an abortion and when she died during the operation he celebrated her funeral mass.