Women religious more vicious towards seers?

Onesimus

Just watching a drama on St.Faustina life and how she was treated badly by the sisters for her conversations with Jesus. When I thought about it other Saints in the women religious like St.Bernadette and St.Therese of Liseux where treated horribly also by the sisters.

I never hear these stories about Men religious Saints in monasteries so much. Am I wrong? I think women can be very vicious towards one another more so than men. I think a lot of women may agree with me on that one.

From my secondary school days I always recall women being very nasty towards one another at school and very competitive.

Any thoughts from the womenz here on that one?

ehcocmeo

Padre Pio was treated the same.. Nothing new.

Onesimus

ehcocmeo wrote: »

Padre Pio was treated the same.. Nothing new.

By his fellow brothers in the monastery?

lmaopml

Onesimus wrote: »

Just watching a drama on St.Faustina life and how she was treated badly by the sisters for her conversations with Jesus. When I thought about it other Saints in the women religious like St.Bernadette and St.Therese of Liseux where treated horribly also by the sisters.

I never hear these stories about Men religious Saints in monasteries so much. Am I wrong? I think women can be very vicious towards one another more so than men. I think a lot of women may agree with me on that one.

From my secondary school days I always recall women being very nasty towards one another at school and very competitive.

Any thoughts from the womenz here on that one?

Yep, Onesimus, you're wrong.

Not only are women hard on women but so are men hard on women, and they can be equally hard on men too with an opinion at all ...who may be not so confident - it takes some kind of individuality to be 'individual' - and nobody gets thanked for it, and the best don't want thanks.

..and everybody is hard on a person like St. Faustina. That seems to be the way of things..;)

Peregrinus

I think your question comes down to this:

Are women nastier than men?

I confidently predict that this discussion will quickly spiral downwards into a series of assertions based on increasingly horrible things done by (a) men or (b) women, reaching no definite conclusion but leaving everybody with a sour taste in their mouths.

Women and men may (or may not) be nasty in different ways, but we all have a more or less bottomless capacity for nastiness of one kind or another. I think the gospels lead us, not to name and shame nastiness (and particularly not to name and shame nastiness in others) but to affirm and encourage goodness.

philologos

I'm skeptical of the emphasis that certain Roman Catholics and some Pentecostals put on visions. Yes they can occur but if they do not line up with the final revelation we've seen in Scripture, then it isn't of God. We're told to test the Spirits. If they are teaching you to do unbiblical things then it is the revelation or the vision that is wrong and not the Bible. In some ways I'm thankful that God speaks to me through the Bible rather than potentially being rather confused by visions.

Doctor DooM

Seriously, any thread like this is doomed to fail. You can't say any group of people act in a certain way. I have literally suffered physical cruelty from a nun and I have also seen acts of incredible kindness from them to people I care about.

They're individual people, like any other group of people.

Benny_Cake

While I know it wouldn't be the OP's intention, it is hard to see how a thread of this nature could end well (having already attracted one particularly trollish remark - since deleted), so I'm going to close it. If someone wants to start a thread about how saints etc were treated by their peers in general, please feel free to do so.