Nuns Group Hears Abuse Accounts

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Officials of a Silver Spring-based organization that represents about 75,000 Catholic nuns have held a private meeting with four women and a man who allege that they were sexually abused by nuns.

It was the first time that officials of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an association of about 1,000 leaders of women's religious orders, formally met with members of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests to hear their personal stories.

The two-hour meeting, which took place Sunday in Chicago, was organized after group members and their supporters protested outside the conference's offices in July, demanding that they be allowed to address the organization's national convention in Texas in August.

Conference officials agreed to the private meeting with the advocacy group. Among the people at the Sunday meeting was an 82-year-old Milwaukee woman who said she was molested at a convent in 1928

washingtonpost.com dated October 9, 2004

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