After recently hearing the details of Jesuit high school’s incidents of sexual and spiritual abuse on a local news station, I need to say the Catholic Church is NOT the last word in abuse by organized religion. I write about leaving the Catholic Church in my book due to the abuse of children.
This is the high school senior ring my fighter daughter gave me because the head and founding Pastor of a nondenomination megachurch hired EXTRA security to keep me from attending both my children’s graduation ceremony, TWO years in a row. A christian high school, no less. She also gave me her stole and tassel which I keep in my car. She is still healing from the abuse she incurred from being kept away from me, her mother, for 5 years and which this local christian high school and megachurch participated in.
I don’t know what kind of teeny tiny tic tac balls this Pastor has to have to hire extra armed manpower to keep a woman, in her 50’s…5’5” and a size four, off his church campus!
And has the audacity to stand as a representative of God and tell a 14 year old girl, my daughter, “you can never reconcile with your mother.” There is scripture that says it is better for such a person to have a millstone tied around his neck and cast into the sea than to harm one of these little ones. I will never forget the damage done to my children.