Brides of Christ - Three Scenes

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Cathoilc

[GG2873]

about teachers hitting children, I read that usually male teachers hit boys because the were gay. Since being gay was a crime, they hit boys because they couldn't have sex with them.

[GG2873]

perhaps your Country is different from Italy. Here the Vatican really rules the Country, but Faith is something else. How is being Black and Catholic? I read Black Catholics are scorned for following the Whites' religion. Is it true?

[mrhalwes]

@GG2873 I am not Catholic. I am Protestant and attend an all-Black church. This too is our heritage from slavery days, and we still tend to stick together regarding religion. There aren't too many Black Catholics in the United States.

[sailorearth2007]

I don't understand the pool scene

[GG2873]

in Italy lay schoolteachers hit children in school nuns never did spinster teachers are famous for that because they are unmarried they hate other women who have got a husband and they hit their children to overcome sexual frustration I hate women teachers they made me suffer hell on earth for eight years

[mrhalwes]

@GG2873 "Spinster" is derogatory. Few unmarried women fit the stereotype of abusive because they lack husbands. I know many women who choose singleness, or simply wait for the right life-partner (not always male). Males have bullied women for centuries demanding they marry or be ridiculed. Male Egos did that. It was disrespectful and unhealthy.

I am an American Black man from the 1940s. I forever cherish those sweet, dedicated unmarried teachers who made learning fun.

[mrhalwes]

@GG2873 Years ago Catholic nuns (I am told) could be horribly abusive. Corporal punishment was accepted by all races, most religions. Only recently has whipping been limited or abolished in schools and homes in the civilized world. My parents believed in the rod; in our Black community this practice was common. It goes back to slavery, our heritage. Hitting is wrong. I have never waivered in my stance on that, and welcome the banning of corporal punishment.

[jeepjeeplady]

the famous Actress Dolores Hart (who starred with and kissed Elvis) rejected them and became a nun...

If any good hollywood persons hear this PLEASE make a respectable movie of her life!!!

PS...You do realize this movie is based on people who hate Catholics?!

I went to Catholic school and NEVER had any nun like in this scene.. In fact, our Priest was so cool he would play soccer with us...

[1815ish]

That blonde schoolgirl is Naomi Watts.

[avalonadam]

Wow! that was HOT

[Aluenvey]

I mostly dig the paddling more than anything else.:P

[nightmareghoul]

dirty girls, they were proberbly masterbading each other..lol

[purplemoosemoose]

"showing what nuns were like"

What a silly and offensive statement! I'm not Catholic, so I don't rebut this from a religious perspective, but a reasoned perspective.

Firstly, this is a fictional tv show not a documentary.

Secondly, have you ever read Tom Brown's School Days? Jane Eyre? Boy? This kind of school discipline has pretty much been par for the course for many centuries, and has only really been revised over the last 50 years or so.

[Iamthegreatification]

@purplemoosemoose You seem to think that the Catholic church are perfect. Watch 2 Irish movies 'The Magdalene Sisters' and 'Song for a Raggy Boy', they are based on factual events about the abuse and rape of Irish children that were put into the care of the CC. Then come back and tell me the CC aren't so bad.

My partners father was sexually abused by NUNS in the care of the CC in Dublin, and beating to a pulp on a regular basis.

[purplemoosemoose]

@Iamthegreatification No, I really don't think the CC is perfect, no more than anyone organisation in the world, religious or otherwise. I'm simply pointing out that the CC has done alot of good aswell as bad, and I find it to be quite boorish and sensationalist to subscribe to this whole notion of "It's the Catholic church, they're evil, child abusing perverts, the lot of them". I myself am not a member of the CC, I'm simply trying to speak from rationalist point of view.

[children36]

TRUE DISCIPLINE BY NUN

[phantomsluva]

By the way. Any Aussie Quast fans out there, he's going to play George Banks in Mary Poppins when it opens at Her Majesty's in Melbourne in July 2010!

[puddledoo]

@phantomsluva  Oh you're so lucky - I'd love to see him in that, hope it comes to England!

[phantomsluva]

I live in England so I'd love to as well :)

[puddledoo]

Fingers, toes and everything else crossed then!!!

[basinandtowel]

Great show! Makes me miss the Catholic Church!

[nwjblake]

Makes me want to shoot self

[eagleblossom]

Actor Russell Crowe played a boyfriend in some of the episodes. Of course he was brilliant!

[solwolfpunk]

That nun hits like a girl.

[angelsgurl]

I went to catholic school in the 90s....it was nothing like this. I remember getting my hand slapped with a ruler once....but that was it.

and in 1st grade we layed over the teachers lap and birthday spankings...

[Paljoey]

Give me that old time religion!

[bbriff22]

Kinky

[fionat2001]

At the convent school I attended corporal punishment by the tawse on the hands was pretty frequent. Both nuns and lay staff worked really hard to ensure that this idle pupil eventually succeeded. But I don't think any of the staff would have interfered with a punishment, even if they might well discuss the matter further with the colleague afterwards

[ValerieBarlow]

Is that Helen Smart ?

[sugarbaby69er]

i liked this series but i cant say i would have liked to go to that school back then

[althaushexe]

I went to a school (1960s) that was very, very similar to this one except that we were never hit and our nuns were kind and funny. We used to laugh a lot. I also don't think we were under the same academic pressure that Oz kids are today (no UAI - uni was much easier to get into). Re the nuns - I liked most of them better than the lay teachers and they were definitely funnier. They were also highly intelligent . We were priviledged. I think, however, that ours was the only school (to be cont.)

[althaushexe]

2) in Sydney where the children were not beaten. The Sisters of Mercy and the Josephites were famous for it - real bullies.

[bacabu30]

It's funny how you lie about your age on your profile! Why didn't you just say 21?! haha

[althaushexe]

No idea what you mean!

[bacabu30]

haha. Just saying your profile says you're only 28-years-old. However, if you are supposed to have gone to school in the 1960's, you must be a lot older than that!!!

[althaushexe]

I didn't know that I had a profile - I'm 156. Cheers.

[althaushexe]

I just checked - I really don't have a profile ...

[bacabu30]

On your profile under where a picture would go, it states you are 28 and from Switzerland. Listen, I honestly don't give a fiddlers. I was only making a friendly tease. I'll leave it to yourself.

[althaushexe]

Tee hee - it's OK and I did take it as a tease. I do live in Switzerland so at some stage I must have filled in a profile but I really am 56 - an old bat but quite OK. Cheers to you bacabu. I have enjoyed our chats.

[bacabu30]

COOL! You speak excellent English.

[althaushexe]

I went to school in Australia!!!! I have lived in Switzerland since 1976 - went to university here. I'm going to Australia next week for a visit. I am sooooooo looking forward to spending 22 hours in a plane.

[pinkosmondfan]

I also should add that this was a different time and that if teachers acted that way, nun or not, it was totally acceptable and was also the way children were dealt with home. A little discipline wouldn't hurt kids today, that's for sure. But to say 'shows what nuns were like' is very untruthful and unfair, since 99% of nuns are loving, wonderful holy women.

[pinkosmondfan]

That's not what nuns were like.

[massman1121]

always some liberal to mess up a good spanking

[koikoiboi]

God i'm old, i remember when this came out first! Anyone know where i can get a torrent for it??

[dannyboy70112003]

that spanking scene turned me on

[lilskippyhopper]

What decade is this from?

And to answer the christian thing:

there are many different kinds of Christians that believe many different things, some are stricter than others. I'm personally Episcopalian, which is sort of a relaxed version of Catholics. Still, i think that each religion has a right to do what it thinks is right. If Catholics believe in corpal punishment, let them. Just stick with your own thing, dude. That's what I do.

[althaushexe]

@lilskippyhopper Episcopalian is American for Anglican - not Catholic. Cheers to you

[GWM4GWM]

One of the best and beautifully acted miniseries EVER! I must have seen it 30 times or more. Naomi Watts, Josehine Byrnes, Lisa Hensley were amazing. So were Brenda Fricker and Sandy Gore.

Clearly some of the nuns were 'good guys' as Sister Catherine would say, and some were not. We usually get to hear some horror stories about nuns but I'm sure a lot of them try to do some good. As Sister Agnes (Brenda Fricker) says in one of the scenes - being a nun is often a thankless job.

[janet928]

catholics...well we all know what they are like. I would not even call them Christians.

[orestesisa]

Would not call them Christians? Shows how little you know about Christianity or history.

[GWM4GWM]

janet928 - so you wouldn't call Catholics Christians, eh? It's a very hateful and ignorant comment. How self-righteous! Just because some Catholics don't live up to the high ideals, doesn't give you the right to put all of them down. Are you in a position to cast the first stone? Really?

[GWM4GWM]

janet928 - just checked out your favourites: soft-core porn & young girls in panties. You have the nerve to post anti-Catholic comments!

[annapunkchan]

look up James Dobson, or better yet Mike and Debbie Pearl and people like them. They are not Catholics and you should see the things they teach parents to do in the name of Christ.

[althaushexe]

What a stupid thing to say!

[MondoBeno]

I went to a Jewish school where teachers acted like this, but they never hit us. They were always paranoid about any kind of teenage fads.

Boys had to wear buttoned collared shirts, regardless of weather. They didn't want us wearing short sleeves. Girls had to wear floor-length dresses.

In the end, we had to buy all out clothes from the Gap.

[Wolverhampton1]

Nuns hit me at school in the 1980s, a mixed catholic primary school in the english west midlands!

They're still around and preaching too......

Fucking Bitches!

[coralarch]

A similar thing happened to me at the Stalag I had to attend for 7 horrible months. Innocently talking with a friend, we were accused of being lesbians. We didn't know what the terms meant, or, indeed, anything about sex at all, being just 13 years of age. We were punished and screamed at and didn't know why.I HATE NUNS - dirty minded, sex-starved bitches!!!

[Dboy66]

that's SO hot. She she spank your bottom?

dboy

[coralarch]

dboy, Dzien dobrie! Oh, yes, and aren't you envious, you little fetishist, you?? LOL- No actually, just an awful lot of threats, screaming, abuse and detention. We hadn't a clue what we were supposed to have done wrong. They were a sex-obsessed crowd, all long dead, hopefully.

[coralarch]

Whoops! Dboy, sorry about using the Polish greeting- another user, in Poland, has a similar user name, and I got them mixed.

[Dboy66]

No problem with the Polish! My main hobby is foreign language (I don't know anything about Polish though). You from Europe somewhere?

dboy

[coralarch]

No, dboy- hubby is part Polish ( and a few other things.) I've done a few. Not fluent in Polish, but know enough to get by. Which languages do you speak?

[Dboy66]

From USA; speak English, Thai, and some French.have been studying thai in bangkok for a few years. really liked Krakow alot so was wondering if you were from that area. dboy

[coralarch]

Krakow is amazing! My father-in-law was born there. I speak Mandarin, French, some Indonesian and Italian, a little Polish,and I can read Russian Latin and Greek. Also know some Japanese, but just hate the sound of it, especially when the men growl and snarl it- shudder! BTW, I LOVE the USA- have some wonderful friends there. Are you based in Thailand?

[pinkosmondfan]

That's real nice mouth you have for women who have devoted their lives to God and to others. Obviously, the punishment wasn't harsh enough, since you did not learn anything from it. Show some respect and get over yourself.

[coralarch]

Get used to the fact that some very frustrated, sick bitches ran concentration camps called Catholic colleges, and were brutal in their punishments. If it never happened to you, shut the fuck up and respect the fact that a LOT of Catholic kids suffered from nuns' cruelty!

[Wolverhampton1]

Pinko, you want me to "show respect" for the way these sick bitches operated and the way I suffered at the hands of them?

It occurs to me Pinko that you either were:

A) an operator of this sort of punishment regime yourself at some point in your career

OR

b) had relatives who were

OR

c) work for the catholic church in some way

Which one is it?

YOU show some respect matey!

[pinkosmondfan]

I'm a Catholic school teacher. Why is it okay for you to epress an opinion about the nuns, but not for me to express my opinion (that you should show respect)? It's really sad when someone can't write something without swear words thrown in. I don't believe I swore at you. I did suggest that you move on and stop holding a grudge over something that you can't do anything about now. Sorry if holdin onto your anger is more attractive to you.

[Wolverhampton1]

Well I sincerely apologise to you for my less than temparent langauge, flippancy and disrespectful tone.

I regret this.

[jennaluvsacting]

i love this show!!!

[unocarb]

The reason I like nuns ;)