VATICAN CITY
Daily Mail (United Kingdom)
Anorexia, despair and thoughts of suicide: Inside the Legion of Christ high school where young girls were forced to live like teenage nuns
By Kerry Mcqueeney
Dozens of young women have claimed they developed severe psychological problems after being forced to live like teenage nuns at a high school run by a disgraced Catholic religious order.
Former pupils of the Legion of Christ high school, in Rhode Island, say the psychological abuse they endured led to multiple cases of anorexia, stress-induced migraines, depression and suicidal thoughts.
They have called on the Vatican to shut down the controversial programme to spare others from a similar ordeal.
This weekend, the women sent a letter to the Pope’s envoy denouncing the manipulation, deception and disrespect they say they suffered at the hands of counsellors barely older than themselves at the school.
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