Crimes Against Innocents Reveal Collapse of Conciliar Religious Life
The EWTN News portal reports the sentencing of three former workers at Nazareth House homes in Scotland for systematic abuse of children from 1972-1981. Carol Buirds (75, formerly “Sister Carmel Rose”) received 15 months imprisonment for 13 charges including forced ingestion of soap, urine torture, and imprisonment in dark cellars. Eileen McElhinney (78, formerly “Sister Mary Eileen”) received home confinement and community service for assaults including jumping on children’s bodies. Dorothy Kane (68) received community service for dragging children and confinement. Sheriff Iain Nicol noted Buirds showed “no remorse whatsoever” while acknowledging victims’ lifelong psychological damage including mutism, suicidal ideation, and destroyed relationships. These atrocities occurred not in secular institutions but within facilities operated by the Sisters of Nazareth – demonstrating the complete moral collapse of post-conciliar religious life.
The Collapse of Religious Discipline After Vatican II
The atrocities committed by these women – who grotesquely masqueraded as religious – embody the logical conclusion of the destruction of authentic religious life following the aggiornamento of Vatican II. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas establishes Christ’s Kingship as the foundation of all authority: “The rights of Christ as King are not diminished by human unworthiness” (1925). Yet the conciliar sect abandoned this monarchical principle, reducing religious life to social work. The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry documents how these “sisters”:
“punched children, threatened violence, repeatedly struck buttocks with hairbrushes, and jumped on their bodies”
Such barbarism directly contradicts St. Thomas Aquinas’ teaching that religio binds man to God through obedience, chastity, and poverty (Summa II-II Q.81). The disappearance of the habit – evident in the defendants’ return to secular names – symbolizes their rejection of the sacer (sacred) for the profanus (profane). Their crimes prove that when religious abandon the immutable Regulae of their orders, they descend into bestiality.
Betrayal of Catholic Orphanage Tradition
Traditional Catholic orphanages operated under the principle in loco parentis with supernatural charity. St. Vincent de Paul’s Daughters of Charity (1633) and St. John Bosco’s Salesians (1859) demonstrated how authentic religious formation produces saints who nurture children’s bodies and souls. The Nazareth House horrors reveal the conciliar sect’s inversion of this sacred trust:
- Satanic Ritualism: Rubbing urine-soaked bedding on children parodies baptismal purity
- Nutritional Sacrilege: Forcing food into mouths distorts the Eucharist’s viaticum
- Sensory Deprivation: Confinement in dark cellars mocks the lumen Christi of faith
Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns the notion that “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics” (1864, Error 63). Yet the post-conciliar “Sisters of Nazareth” became precisely what the Syllabus forbade: purveyors of cruelty rather than Christ’s love.
Systemic Apostasy in Conciliar Structures
The Sheriff’s observation that McElhinney committed crimes “at the beginning of your vocation… susceptible to the influence of older nuns” proves the systemic rot within conciliar religious communities. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane condemned modernists who reduce religious life to “a certain pious custom” rather than supernatural vocation (1907). The defendants’ subsequent “careers” as social workers and volunteers confirm they never possessed valid vocations – merely naturalist impulses dressed as religion.
Theological Consequences of Abandoned Discipline
The victims’ lifelong psychological wounds – mutism, broken marriages, employment failures – testify to the eternal truth: sin destroys both soul and society. The Catechism of St. Pius X teaches that scandals against children cry to Heaven for vengeance. Yet the conciliar sect’s “nuns” inflicted precisely such scandals while claiming to represent Christ. Their inability to show remorse proves they operated under what St. Augustine called libido dominandi (lust for domination) rather than caritas Christi.
As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “When men and states refuse to submit to the rule of our Savior, there is no hopeful prospect of lasting peace”. These abuse revelations demonstrate the conciliar sect’s total failure to maintain Christ’s Kingship over its members – resulting in unimaginable suffering for the most vulnerable. Until the Church returns to pre-conciliar discipline and doctrine, such atrocities will continue proliferating under the mask of false mercy.
Source:
Former Scottish Sisters of Nazareth sentenced for abuse in children’s care homes (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 28.01.2026