The Vatican is probing
sex abuse among nuns, the head of the Vatican department
responsible for monks and nuns told the Vatican press organ's
women's monthly insert.
"The Vatican is investigating cases of abuse by religious
(men) against nuns but also cases of abuse among nuns", said
Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for
Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies, which is carrying
out the probes.
The Brazilian cardinal was speaking in an interview with
Donne Chiesa Mondo (Women, the Church and the World), the
monthly insert for women of Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano.
Bras de Aviz said one case involved a nun who was training
another one.
He said that in one congregation, nine cases had been
reported.
"This is a thus-far hidden phenomenon which must come out,"
said the cardinal, one of the Vatican's top officials.
The Vatican has endured a long series of sexual abuse
scandals involving predator paedophile priests in all parts of
the world.
Cases of sexual abuse by priests or monks of nuns have so far
been relatively rare.
Proven nun-on-nun sex abuse has been even more rarely
reported.
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