PARIS (FRANCE)
LaCroix International
February 18, 2019
By Christa Pongratz-Lippitt
Doris Wagner, a former German nun who reported a former official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) for making unwanted sexual advances towards her, has published a new book chronicling “spiritual abuse” in Catholic religious orders.
Wagner, who’s denunciations led Father Hermann Geissler to resign his CDF post in January, gives a detailed account of the various forms of sexual and spiritual abuse she experienced during her eight years as a member of the spiritual family “The Work,” the same mixed religious community to which Father Geissler belongs.
In her latest book “Spiritueller Mißbrauch in der katholische Kirche” (Spiritual Abuse in the Catholic Church) she goes into the different facets of the phenomenon of spiritual abuse.
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