TENNESSEE
National Catholic Reporter
Dan Stockman | Aug. 15, 2014
NASHVILLE, TENN.
The gathering of nearly 800 religious sisters here drew one protester Thursday.
Bob Hoatson, president of advocacy organization Road to Recovery, based in Livingston, N.J., stood outside the convention center where the Leadership Conference of Women Religious is holding its four-day assembly holding a sign that said, “Nuns abuse kids too.”
Hoatson said there had been another local protester with him, but he had left.
Hoatson said while abuse by priests may be more visible, it is a problem for women religious, too, and — more importantly — they have failed to address it.
“I’m dealing with a good number of men and women abused by nuns,” Hoatson said. “The nuns have been much better at burying it than the bishops.”
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