Reply #80: Self-flagellation... [View All]

[Sapphocrat]

That's what being Catholic is all about. I didn't realize until I saw "The Nun's Story" that modern-day novices still did that with a ritual cat-o'nine tails. (Don't know if they still do, but I guess they did in Sister Kenny's time.)

I never heard the bit about the blood of Jesus spurting out of the eucharist, but it doesn't surprise me in the least -- it's right in line with every other image of horror planted in our young minds from the age of six on.

I do remember being told that every time you get injured, you should "offer the pain up to Jesus." I also remember the nuns telling us that every time we sinned (and in those days, calling another kid a "rat fink" was a sin), we were literally driving the nails further into Jesus' hands, just as surely as if we were standing over him with a hammer.

I've mentioned here, many times, the sadistic nuns who abused us physically, mentally, and emotionally... If they didn't get some sort of sick pleasure from it, I would be very surprised indeed. ("I punish you because I love you," said one. Sound familiar to anyone out there abused by parents or spouses?)

No wonder that one line in "Eating Raoul" always makes me bust a gut... Man walks into a porn shop: "Do you have the new issue of 'Nuns & Nazis'?" Porn shop guy: "Next Tuesday."

I would love to know the incidence of BDSM play among Catholics. Anyone know of any published studies?

P.S. Is there even one Catholic/ex-Catholic out there who isn't practically obsessed with every "Catholic movie" ever made? Has any of us not watched "The Trouble With Angels" 50,000 times?