Dutch Women who Sleep with Priests (4 of 7): Yet More Story of a Monastic.

From Tineke Ferwerda’s “Sister Philothea: Relationships between Women and Roman Catholic Priests” (1989; translated 1993) (p. 140; paragraph breaks added for clarity):

Then something incredible suddenly happened.  On a sunny noon in the autumn of 1948 there was a sudden invasion of the monastery by pot-bellied church dignitaries.  They were foreigners.  Rome intervened directly.  Classes were forbidden, the telephone was cut off and until further orders everyone had to stay in his room.

The prior was seized in T, where he was staying with his family, and taken abroad in a car from an abbey in Belgium.

Over the following days and weeks everyone in turn was put on the mat for interrogation by a church tribunal about the homosexual and paedophile tendencies of the prior.  It was a disconcerting time.  A completely different governing body for the monastery was set up which existed merely ‘pro forma’.  In fact a Belgian prelate appointed by Rome was the one who held sway.

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