During 2019 we conducted interviews with five women who have current or previous life experience in women’s religious orders (nuns). The women are from Argentina, France, Germany, Peru, and The Philippines. This led to Figueroa and Tombs (2021) 'Seeing His Innocence, I See My Innocence', https://www.academia.edu/48959170/_Seeing_His_Innocence_I_See_My_Innocence_ This further chapter is focused on the three members of the group who experienced sexual abuse by Catholic priests during their time in the religious order. It asks the participants if their vocation and identity as a nun and person of faith influenced positively or negatively their response to the abuse and the impact in their lives. The chapter gives particular attention to: the systemic factors within the Church enabled the abuse; the impact that the abuse had on the women’s sense of self and self-worth; whether or not they viewed the suffering of Christ alongside their own suffering and how they understood this connection.
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