Mark me down as agreeing absolutely with Bonnie and Ed. I have already described elsewhere the treatment I and my schoolmates received from "God's Stormtroopers", the Jesuit Brothers who taught at my grammar school.

There are other ways for children to be abused than sexual abuse, and the Catholic Church (the institution, not the faithful) has tried most of them at one time or another, usually on the faithful.

In my case it was verbal, psychological and physical abuse, in about equal portions.

As they would say in the Southern States, "It's a control thang!"

I consider myself fortunate to have shrugged off that control and am much the better for it.

Don T.