Yes. I had a mother-in-law who ate the discarded orange peels thrown out by the nuns because she and others were kept so very hungry and beaten furiously if they so much as pulled ungrateful faces. Probably the Mother Teresa syndrome where suffering is augmented as a means to draw the lowest classes of society nearer to God.
Those who have been in care by the church from a young age have a life expectancy of 61.
Apparently there is a great spiritual benefit to suffering at the hands of the Catholic church.
How such a church can still exist after the Inquisition, the death of many millions in Mesoamerica, rampant pedophilia and the corruption of the Vatican defies belief. They are beyond redemption.
Don't burn the churches down, let the Catholic church forfeit them to the state to be used for buildings of recreation by those abused by the church. They'll get far more attendance and be of far better use.
