Maura O'Donohue

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Maura O'Donohue (born Mary Brigid O'Donohue in 1933; died May 3, 2015) was a Roman Catholic nun in the religious order of the Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMM).

Act

As a doctor of medicine and development worker, she worked in 83 countries on all continents. a. in Africa as AIDS coordinator for CAFOD, the Catholic overseas development agency. She spent six years in Africa as the AIDS coordinator for Cafod , a Catholic relief fund. Further assignments worldwide followed - also over several years in Africa.

She is one of the protagonists of the Global Inter-Faith Alliance Against Human Trafficking (GIFAAHT) initiative founded in Kenya in January 2009 to combat human trafficking .

Report on the Sexual Abuse of Nuns

In 1994, O'Donohue wrote a report on the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops, which she sent to Cardinal Eduardo Martínez Somalo , then President of the Religious Congregation . She named cases in 23 countries including India, Ireland, Italy, the Philippines, the United States and some countries in Africa. In one case, a priest forced a sister, whom he himself had impregnated, to have an abortion which resulted in her death. Then he held the funeral mass for her.

The Vatican set up a commission of inquiry to investigate abuses and rape of nuns by priests with O'Donohue. The cases were confirmed. In March 2001 the report was made public through the National Catholic Reporter . On November 22, 2001, Pope John Paul II apologized publicly to those religious who have been victims of sexual abuse by priests.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Thomas Götz: Priests and bishops abuse nuns sexually. In: Berliner Zeitung , March 22, 2001 ( online )
  2. ^ Faith Group Wants More to End Human Trade . Report on allafrica.com ( online )
  3. ↑ Ronald Eberley: My Call to Priesthood: One Married Man's Struggle to Become a Roman Catholic , p. 111 ( digitized, English )
  4. ↑ Sexual potential. In: Der Spiegel , March 26, 2001 ( online )
  5. ↑ Frances Kennedy: Vatican confirms report of sexual abuse and rape of nuns by priests in 23 countries. In: The Independent , March 21, 2001 ( online )
  6. ↑ We are church
personal data
SURNAME O'Donohue, Maura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic nun and development worker, doctor and missionary
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century