Next time someone laments the old days when we had many more women religious,

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point them to this:

Nuns treated like servants by priests: Cardinal

Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, who is president of Catholic
Bishops Council of India, says the nuns are humiliated by priests and they live in fear.

"I would say to a great extent our nuns are not emancipated women. They are often kept under submission by the fear of revenge by priests. That's how the priests get away with whatever humiliation they heap upon them. It is a pitiable situation from which somebody has to liberate them,'' says the 82-year-old cardinal.

"A big complaint of our nuns is that the diocesan priests are treating them like servants, making them wash their clothes, prepare their food, wash the churches, etc and that too without getting paid. These are all unjust ways of treating the women religious.''

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Nuns-treated-like-servants-by-priests-Cardinal/articleshow/4272890.cms