Nuns who rape

The source of this post is a book named "Masterkey to Popery" written by a former catholic priest "Anthony Gavins". He has recorded some confessions taken from the records of Catholic church. It contains confessions made by Christians as far back as eighteenth century.

The author describes what goes on behind the closed doors of convents. According to him

By the constitutions of their order, so many days are appointed, in which all the nuns are obliged to confess, from the Mother Abbess to the very wheeler, i.e., the nun that turns the wheel near the door, through which they give and receive everything they want. They have a father confessor, and a father companion, who live next to the convent, and have a small grate in the wall of their chamber ... In all those grates the nuns confess their sins...

For the information of the uninitiated, confession is a ritual in which the Christians are supposed to talk to a father through a grill or a grate and divulge any acts committed by him/her since the last confession. How young girls fall into, or are lured into, being a nun is described by the author as

"Many gentlemen send their daughters to the nunnery when they are some five, some six, some eight years old ... and when they are fifteen years old ... they receive the habit of a nun, and begin the year of novicate, which is the year of trial, to see whether they can go through all the hardships, fastings, disciplines, prayers, hours of divine service, obedience, poverty, chastity, and penance's practiced in the monastery ..."

The senior 'sisters' make sure that the young girls are not given any hard or demanding chores to perform, in this year of novicate, lest they shed the idea of being a nun. Thus, they are shown a rosy picture that they will lead a life of leisure and comfort.

"After this (i.e. after taking the vow) they have the liberty to go to the grate and talk with gentlemen, priests and friars, who go there as a gallant goes to see his mistress. So when the nuns begin to have a notion of the pleasures of the world, and how they have been deceived, they are heartily sorry, but too late, for there is no remedy. And minding nothing but to satisfy their passions as well as they can, they abandon themselves to all sorts of wickedness and amorous intrigues." [Page 40-41]

This sense of being conned into celibacy makes them "abondon themselves to all sorts of wickedness and amorous intrigue". They have a tendency to "satisfy their passions as well as they can".

Father Gaivins tells us about a word 'deveto' used in the nunneries. He tells us that each nun had her 'spiritual husband' called devoto. [pp 54]

When it is dark evening, they send away the Devotos and the doors are locked up, they go to their own chamber to write a billet, or letter to the spiritual husband, which they send in the morning to them, and get an answer  and though they see one another almost every day, for all that, they must write to one another every morning : And these letters of love, they call the recreation of the spirit for the time they are absent from them. Every day they must give one another an account of whatever thing they have done since the last visit; and indeed there are warmer expressions of love, and jealousy between the Nun, and the Devoto than between real wife and husband. 

After this background, the father tells about confession of a Nun. This confession was made by her, ten months after she had taken the vows of celibacy.

Nun: I do confess that ever since I did not care what should become of me, I have abandoned myself to all the sins I have been able to commit. It is but ten months since I made my profession and bound myself to perpetuity, though as I did it without intention, I am not a nun before God ... and of this opinion are many other nuns, especially the young nuns, my intimate friends, who, as well as I, do communicate to one another, the most sacred things of our hearts."

"Each of this assembly has her devoto, and we are every day in the afternoon at the grate ... 

Now coming to my greatest sin, I must tell you, that a nun of our assembly has a friar her devoto, the most beautiful young man, and we contrived and agreed to bring him into the convent, as we did, and have kept him two and twenty days [22 days] in our chamber. During which time we went to the grate very seldom, on pretense of being not well. We have given no scandal for nobody suspected the least thing in the case."

Confessor: Pray, tell me, how could you let him in without scandal?

Nun: 

One of the assembly contrived to mat all the floor of her chamber and sent for the mat-maker to take the measure of the length and breadth of the room ... When the mat was there, and the man paid for it, one day in the evening ... the friar [who had asked leave of his prior to go into the country for a month's time and disguising himself in a layman's habit] came into the Sexton's room, and rolling himself up in the mat, the porters brought the mat to the door where we were waiting for it; and taking it, we carried it up to one of our chambers." [Page 57]

If you are wondering about the two porters who had transported the sex crazed holy father into the charge of equally sex crazed holy nuns, relax. The nuns were not only smart and sex starved, they were equally ruthless. This is what she tells us

We were afraid that the porters would discover the thing, but by money we have secured ourselves from them; for we hired ruffians to make away with them.

If you have not understood then she is telling her confessor that they hired goons to kill the porters. Sisters of mercy. Ain't it.

What would happen with such unrestrained assembly for 22 days. Some of the sisters found themselves in a "delicate condition". 

"A month after, three of our friends began to perceive the condition they were in, and left the convent one night, by which they have given great scandal to the city, and we do not know what has become of them; as for me, I design to do the same, for I am under the same apprehensions and fear; for I consider that if I do continue in the convent, my unusual size will discover me, and though one life shall be saved, I shall lose mine by the rulers of the our order in a miserable manner ..."

Look at the last sentence 'losing life by miserable manner'. If that confounds you then you should know more about inquisition. Anyway, read on.

"I am fully resolved to prevent my ruin and death by a strong operating remedy. This is all I have to say, and I do expect from you, not only your advice, but your assistance too." 

The confessor, from whose extract, you are reading this post, was hesitant to assist her. Then she tells him:

I am resolved for all events, and if you refuse me this comfort, I shall cry out, and say, that you have been soliciting and corrupting me in the very act of confession, and you shall suffer for it in the inquisition.

Till now, we have read (here and here) about holy fathers, who blackmailed hapless women with the threat of Inquisition. Here we find that this gal is one step ahead and has changed the rules of the game.

The confessor discussed the case with the moral academy and advised the nun to escape, which she finally did.

If the scandals that keep on surfacing are any indication, things have not changed. As long as girls are being conned into a life contrary to the laws of nature, such acts are bound to happen.