Sister Mary Mercy - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:53:15 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Sister Mary Mercy - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Indian Catholics want probe into latest nun suicide https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/12/09/indian-catholics-want-probe-into-latest-nun-suicide/ Thu, 09 Dec 2021 06:50:02 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=143211 A group of Catholics have urged the Conference of Religious India (CRI) to investigate the recent suicide of Sister Mary Mercy, a member of the Franciscan Immaculate Sisters. A letter signed by senior nuns, theologians and laywomen said it would be helpful to "find out what needs to be done in order to prevent the Read more

Indian Catholics want probe into latest nun suicide... Read more]]> A group of Catholics have urged the Conference of Religious India (CRI) to investigate the recent suicide of Sister Mary Mercy, a member of the Franciscan Immaculate Sisters.

A letter signed by senior nuns, theologians and laywomen said it would be helpful to "find out what needs to be done in order to prevent the repeated occurrence of these sad and traumatic incidents" among nuns.

It further suggested that the CRI send a fact-finding team to her convent in Jalandhar Diocese in the northern state of Punjab to ascertain the facts of the case.

Sister Noellz De Souza, a member of Missionaries of Christ Jesus who is among the signatories to the letter, told UCA News on Dec. 8 that "the audit finding will help religious congregations to develop a mechanism to deal with such situations."

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