tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post5140627657265611482..comments2024-03-26T14:34:28.415-07:00Comments on Religion and Child Abuse News: Nuns among worst perpetrators of horrific violence and sex abuse in Jesuit-run schools and missions on Indian reservationsPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-21961764020307186802024-03-26T14:16:08.553-07:002024-03-26T14:16:08.553-07:00‘IT WAS ABUSE. I INTERPRETED IT AS LOVE.’
Paige E...‘IT WAS ABUSE. I INTERPRETED IT AS LOVE.’<br /><br />Paige Eppenstein Anderson is still hoping for her day in court. Like many group members, it took her decades to see that what happened to her was abuse, and once she did in 2020 at age 40, the statute of limitations had run out on her claim in her home state of Pennsylvania.<br /><br />“It was abuse. I interpreted it as love,” she said of the Perry Bulwerhttps://religiouschildabuse.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-6128651694715391662024-03-26T14:14:32.714-07:002024-03-26T14:14:32.714-07:00Victims of Catholic nuns rely on each other after ...Victims of Catholic nuns rely on each other after being overlooked in the clergy sex abuse crisis<br /><br />By TIFFANY STANLEY, ASSOCIATED PRESS March 16, 2024<br /><br />On Wednesdays, the support group meets over Zoom. The members talk about their lives, their religious families and their old parochial schools. But mostly, they are there to talk about the sexual abuse they suffered at the Perry Bulwerhttps://religiouschildabuse.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-49812650122766192018-12-29T11:51:43.425-08:002018-12-29T11:51:43.425-08:00In his counseling days in Denver, Cramer actually ...In his counseling days in Denver, Cramer actually ran a Catholic psychotherapy clinic and counseled clergy members. He said the most sexually deviant priests in his office were addicted to pornography; none had sexually abused anyone. Perhaps they might have, he said, if church hadn’t begun rigorously trying to address issues early on.<br /><br />“Their first response is ‘Let’s get this priest Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-1543209523680335382018-12-29T11:51:30.050-08:002018-12-29T11:51:30.050-08:00Knowing of the abuse Robinson allegedly inflicted,...Knowing of the abuse Robinson allegedly inflicted, Schneider said he’s not inclined to take Robinson’s portrait down from the wall in the church basement where parishioners sip coffee and catch up.<br /><br />“Sad as that is that they did that, that’s more of a historic record of the administrators of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church,” Schneider said.<br /><br />Forty-some miles south, Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-33854465259186352012018-12-29T11:50:08.342-08:002018-12-29T11:50:08.342-08:00Great Falls-Billings Diocese attorney Greg Hatley ...Great Falls-Billings Diocese attorney Greg Hatley said the church is not legally admitting officials facilitated the abuse by settling with victims. He said by approaching each claim with intent to help the healing process, the church is taking responsibility and avoiding lengthy litigation.<br /><br />"It's acknowledgment by the diocese that certainly there are victims of sexual abuse Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-32358787525499687212018-12-29T11:48:24.103-08:002018-12-29T11:48:24.103-08:00Howard was raised Catholic, which sharpened her su...Howard was raised Catholic, which sharpened her surprise when the widespread sexual abuse hit news outlets in the early 2000s. It also fortified her resolve to seek justice for those abused by church officials. Her firm, Datsopoulous, MacDonald and Lind, also represented victims in the Helena Diocese case, and Howard launched her own investigation in speaking with victims group, pouring through Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-32595315469962386902018-12-29T11:46:49.090-08:002018-12-29T11:46:49.090-08:00In the picture, dated 1961, a group of students si...In the picture, dated 1961, a group of students sit back in their chairs, like a high school class you would see anywhere else. It’s possible — based on the timeline of claims made by victims — that one or two of the students are looking at their rapist. The next year, Robinson was relocated.<br /><br />“I heard about this gentlemen, this individual,” Azure said. “There are people out here that Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-21240822052476094942018-12-29T11:45:01.784-08:002018-12-29T11:45:01.784-08:00Only one person has come forward to claim abuse in...Only one person has come forward to claim abuse in Wolf Point, on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation further northeast. But in southeastern Montana, eleven people have claimed they were sexually abused at the St. Labre Indian Mission on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, while seven have made similar allegations from the St. Xavier Indian Mission on the Crow Indian Reservation.<br /><br />Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-9681551542720251232018-12-29T11:43:23.830-08:002018-12-29T11:43:23.830-08:00During his time as a priest on Montana Indian rese...During his time as a priest on Montana Indian reservations in the 1950s and '60s, Robinson served the St. Paul Mission in Hays as the rural school’s basketball coach, algebra teacher, superintendent and, of all things, an ethics instructor. Some called him “Father Eddy,” others simply called him “Father," but in 2012 Edmund Robinson’s full name appeared on a list of about 13 clergy Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-3381511708861141502018-12-29T11:42:02.437-08:002018-12-29T11:42:02.437-08:00Montana reservations reportedly 'dumping groun...Montana reservations reportedly 'dumping grounds' for predatory priests<br /><br />CLAIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE BY CATHOLIC CHURCH WORKERS HAVE EMERGED FROM ALL OVER THE STATE.<br /><br />Seaborn Larson, Great Falls Tribune Aug. 16, 2017 <br /><br />HAYS – For decades, even lifetimes, the Catholic Church refused to turn in priests with known pasts of sexually abusing children, women and men. Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-74594520993398164652015-02-07T15:16:02.846-08:002015-02-07T15:16:02.846-08:00Nun Abuse Case Goes to Bankruptcy Court
Survivor ...Nun Abuse Case Goes to Bankruptcy Court<br /><br />Survivor Speaks Out<br /><br />by Stephanie Woodard, Indian Country February 6, 2015 <br /><br />Suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse. A plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Diocese of Helena (Montana) and the Ursuline Sisters of the Western Province ticked off the long-term effects of the sexual, physical and emotional abuse by nuns and priests that Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-69595417889167730562012-10-08T13:44:01.989-07:002012-10-08T13:44:01.989-07:00continued from previous comment...
And then they ...continued from previous comment...<br /><br />And then they let me go home for 30 days. Six years. And I asked my mother, I said, "Why didn’t you write to me?" And she—you know, and she says, "I did." But I never—I never questioned beyond that. And then there was—they sent me to another boarding school in North Dakota, another 200 miles away. I was there for three years. And Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-45537554946104523012012-10-08T13:43:31.739-07:002012-10-08T13:43:31.739-07:00continued from previous comment...
And I don’t wa...continued from previous comment...<br /><br />And I don’t want to reflect about, you know, the lost explorer. You know, they’ve got towns named after him, like Custer, South Dakota, is named after Custer, a man who was, you know, bent on killing native people. But people honor those kind of renegades and those kind of rogues. So, I want to look at the more positive things, and that’s—and it’s Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-33225639773687590222012-10-08T13:41:24.785-07:002012-10-08T13:41:24.785-07:00Native American Leader Dennis Banks on the Overloo...<b>Native American Leader Dennis Banks on the Overlooked Tragedy of Nation’s Indian Boarding Schools</b><br /><br />Democracy Now, October 8, 2012<br /><br />TRANSCRIPT:<br /><br />AMY GOODMAN: We’re on the road in Durango, Colorado, at Fort Lewis College, which graduates more Native Americans than any four-year college in the United States. I’m Amy Goodman. But we’re going now to New York, Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-88700290100180399752012-02-20T10:14:05.039-08:002012-02-20T10:14:05.039-08:00Actual words of American Indian boarding school fo...<b>Actual words of American Indian boarding school founder, students brought to life in play</b><br /><br />Retired College of St. Scholastica American Indian Studies instructor Carl Gawboy has written a play about the American Indian boarding school experience.<br /><br />by: Budgeteer News Staff, Duluth Budgeteer News February 17, 2012<br /><br />Retired College of St. Scholastica American Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-76916862927756892272011-09-24T09:35:01.344-07:002011-09-24T09:35:01.344-07:00Dark times with nuns of Mother Teresa: a memoir
N...Dark times with nuns of Mother Teresa: a memoir<br /><br />National Post - Charles Lewis<br /><br />There’s an episode in Mary Johnson’s An Unquenchable Thirst that seems to epitomize the painful years she spent in Mother Teresa’s religious order.<br /><br />It is just one of dozens of uncomfortable moments the former nun recalls as a member of the Roman Catholic Missionaries of Charity, but it Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com