Dutch Women who Sleep with Priests (5 of 7): Even Yet More Story of a Monastic.

From Tineke Ferwerda’s “Sister Philothea: Relationships between Women and Roman Catholic Priests” (1989; translated 1993) (p. 145):

[During the 1960s on an extended visit in Italy b]y preference I looked behind the scenes at times when I knew that people had to be involved in the offices or in church life.  Above all during the Sunday High Masses when there were many strangers (and thus also women) in the monastic churches, you could take it for granted that ninety per cent of all male inhabitants of the monastery would be in church.  I stayed both with the Benedictines in Rome and with the Cistercians here and there in Italy on such occasions, even in the cells of the fathers, to be able to compare them with those in Holland...

I saw in Rome how a young priest monk shyly dodged into one of the college halls with a twelve-year-old boy when I went in almost noiselessly, and how in Frossinone another young monk disappeared just as skilfully [sic] behind a closed door with a small mass server into the luxurious garden on the hillside.

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