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Spotlight needed on abuse in women's orders, says Jesuit journal

Spotlight needed on abuse in women's orders, says Jesuit journal

VATICAN CITY
Catholic News Service

July 30, 2020

By Carol Glatz

The abuse occurring within women's religious orders deserves more attention from the media and must be remedied, said an influential Jesuit journal.

Novices and women religious, especially those who have been assigned to a country where they don't know the language, can be particularly vulnerable to abuses of power and conscience by superiors, and sexual abuse by their formators, said an article in "La Civilta Cattolica."

"The dynamics of women's religious life turn out to be very different from that of men in many ways. The education and many pastoral opportunities of those who receive Holy Orders allow men religious to live with greater openness and autonomy," even in a religious community, said the article, written by Jesuit Father Giovanni Cucci, a professor of psychology and philosophy at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University.

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