The Silence We Keep by Karol Jackowski

Author:Karol Jackowski [Jackowski, Karol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-54598-5
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2010-06-09T04:00:00+00:00

Throughout history, nuns act just as priests do when celibacy is forced upon them. Once again, it’s the old divine law of human nature: The more sex feels prohibited, the more it just goes underground and flourishes so much that it is eventually forced aboveground as well. Everybody acts that way when celibacy is forced upon them. It twists their souls, demonizes their God, and drives them crazy. That kind of craziness became rampant in the medieval sisterhood, and in that regard, the church’s nunneries became a clear reflection of its priesthood. They were full of women called by everyone and everything but God. But even at their very worst, nuns were nowhere near as corrupt as the priests. For example, “between 1430 and 1450, 12 out of 220 nuns in Lincoln were found guilty of immoral behavior. In 1514, a general visitation in Norwich found one nun of Crabhouse who had gone wrong out of 8 houses with 72 nuns.”5 As McNamara notes, “Criticism went hand in hand with correction.” The sisterhood never accepted sexual permissiveness as part of their religious life.

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