In an era where all are given the benefit of the doubt, and speaking Ill of any religion or ethnic group is considered vile, disparaging Catholics and the church is politically correct.
Paul > On Aug 15, 2021, at 1:13 AM, Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: > > Well, my mother spent her whole school career at St Joseph's Convent in > Durban central & I spent my first two years of school life there before we > emigrated to Rhodesia. The Nuns, from a French order of the Sacred Heart, > were loving, gentle & excellent educators. The school was closed with great > sadness in 1965 because there were no longer enough nuns to run it. The few > nuns left & the schoolkids all transferred to another nearby suburban > Convent. My wife, on the other hand, spent her junior school years at a > Convent in Rhodesia where the Nuns were tyrants. > > What I am trying to say is you can't generalise & say all Nuns are "Mafiosi". > The vast majority on Nuns are certainly not. > > As far as Bob's image is concerned, as Paul has already commented, you can > easily misinterpret it according to your prejudices. > > Alan C > >> On 14-Aug-21 10:31 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: >>> Am 14.08.21 um 21:50 schrieb Daniel J. Matyola: >>> The record in the US is every bit as shameful. >> >> Michael's grandmother, a staunch catholic born 1908, spent a few years >> at a school run by catholic nuns. She hated them for the rest of her >> life and referred to them as beasts. My mother, now 92, spent some time >> at a "holiday camp" run by nuns. She doesn't have a single good word to >> say about them. >> >> No abuse of the kind we've heard of lately, mind you, but a reign of >> terror, meanness and ruthless drill. Christian compassion? Not with them. >> >> Ralf >> >> -- >> Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany >> Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com >> Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf >> Web : http://www.fotoralf.de >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
