Praying for Peace Two Cloistered Nuns Reach out with the Help of Technology to Help Victims of Priest Abuse;... RIP Dear Sisters

Mother Veronica and Sister Angela... stood along side us survivors... of nuns and priest worldwide... I spoke and emailed Sister Angela many times... and I found comfort from her words... she also emailed Peter from New Zealand as well... the two Sisters were gentle... and you knew by their words of support...  that they truly had us survivors... welfare in their hearts... even though they were having such a hard time... with the catholic church... and if they had a place to call home... they never left us survivors out in the cold... they were sweet caring nuns... Rest in Peace - Dear Sisters... you will always have a place in our Hearts... Ann 

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They love the Catholic Church. But they also ache for victims hurt by it.  Mother Veronica Sweeney and Sister Angela Ferry, diocesan nuns of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Knoxville, have opened up their cloistered lives to reach victims of sexual abuse and the victims' families through the Internet and e-mail.
"People say it's a gay issue. It's not," Ferry said. "Gay men molesting boys, heterosexual men abusing girls, nuns abusing children: They're all abusing the vulnerable."  "Abuse continues when people do not listen to you," Sweeney said.
In late January, statements from the two contemplative nuns of the Monastery of Our Lady of Little Citeaux in Copperhill went online in two recently established Web sites: www.freewebs.com/thenuns and www.nunsfortheabused.com/nunsense.html. Since then, they have received hundreds of e-mails from as far away as Australia and Great Britain.

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2004_01_06/2004_02_28_Hunter_PrayingFor.htm