#NunsToo: Nuns abused by priests and bishops

Woman's Hour

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4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Pope Francis has for the first time publicly acknowledged the scandal of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns, and says he is committed to doing more to fight the problem. Jenni speaks to survivors; Rocio Figueroa a theologian and lecturer, and author, Doris Reisinger Wagner, who were both once nuns and to Sister Sharlet Wagner, a Sister of the Holy Cross and the current President of The Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the US. A report released by the University and College Union suggests that bullying and stereotyping is blocking the professorial path for black women. Dr Nicola Rollock conducted the research and spoke to 20 of the 25 female black professors in the UK including Gina Higginbottom, Emeritus Professor of Ethnicity and Community Health at the University of Nottingham. They join Jenni to discuss the explicit and more subtle ways that black female academics are prevented from attaining the highest positions at UK universities. American actor and Paralympian Katy Sullivan plays Ani, who becomes quadriplegic following a car accident in Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer prize winning drama The Cost of Living. Katy talks to Jenni about how the play explores attitudes to disability, race, class and wealth. And the fourth in our series of family secrets. A woman we are calling Liz found out her father’s secret at the worst possible time.

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0:00.0	Hello, Jenny Murray, welcoming you to the podcast for Woman's Hour for Thursday 7 February.
0:12.2	There are nearly 19,000 professors in the UK's universities, only 25 are black women.
0:19.4	What's blocking their career progression?
0:22.5	In the next in our series of family secrets, the daughter who discovered something shocking
0:27.2	soon after the death of her father.
0:29.7	And the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Cost of Living, opens at the Hamster Theatre in
0:34.3	North London, Katie Sullivan and actor and Paralympic athlete plays the role of a quadriplegic
0:41.3	in need of care she first performed in America.
0:46.6	As I'm sure you heard in the news yesterday, Pope Francis has acknowledged for the first
0:51.7	time that the long-roomed scandal of the sexual abuse of nuns by Roman Catholic priests
0:57.3	and bishops is true.
1:00.0	It's also been found to be a widespread problem, which has been happening across the world.
1:05.8	And some women have begun to tell what has happened to them.
1:10.5	Earlier I spoke to sister Charlotte Wagner, the president of the leadership conference
1:14.7	of women religious in the United States.
1:17.8	I also talked to two women who have former nuns and survivors of sexual abuse.
1:23.7	Rossio Figuero is a theologian and lecturer who was born in Peru and now lives in New
1:29.8	Zealand.
1:30.8	Doris Rysinger Wagner is German and joined us from Freiburg.
1:36.2	Why had she chosen to become a nun when she left school at the age of 19?
1:41.4	Well, you know, I was raised in a very Christian-believing family.
1:47.0	Also I was raised in a very poor family, so there were not many possibilities for me when
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