tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114604523528254972.post5218512769742314235..comments2024-01-22T22:50:33.881-05:00Comments on Raven's Caw: Baby Eater and BearsRaven's Clayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10029825722137314764noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114604523528254972.post-55553791320775969202007-12-09T16:27:00.000-05:002007-12-09T16:27:00.000-05:00Oy, this story. The whole "secret tunnel" connecti...Oy, this story. The whole "secret tunnel" connection story was fabricated in the late 1800s by a Canadian woman named Maria Monk (seriously, that was her name) who was bitter about being asked to leave a convent. She was mentally unstable and the sisters felt she would not make a good nun. Angry and immature, and without much guidance from home, she wrote a number of viscious but fictionalized accusations against the Catholic Church, including this story, repreated in many places, about tunnels and secret sex and abortions. It was popular in the late 1800s to be virulently anti-Catholic. <BR/><BR/>In far too many places, even today, these tales from the mind of a disturbed teenager remain legend, or are even taught as truth. But there's zero documentation, and no such tunnels or even evidence of filled-in tunnels has ever been found. <BR/>Thanks<BR/>Robin Johnston, Dallas TX<BR/>r.johnston@msmcatholic.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com