A strange mix of title and dress

In most Irish newspapers today there is a picture of Sister Mary Teresa Grogan.

Yesterday the Mercy sister was found not guilty of indecent assault charge,

The 62-year-old woman had been accused of indecently assaulting seven girls at a primary school in the midlands more than 35 years ago.

Sister Grogan joined the Sisters of Mercy in 1966 as a 16-year-old girl.

She was given the name Sister Peter.

The picture in today's papers shows an elegant woman but somewhere or other in those eyes there seems to be a sadness. Maybe even fear.

She is wearing a black coat, red scarf and carrying a hand bag slung over her left shoulder.

Has anyone asked how come a girl of 16 is taken off to live a life that, at least, is strange. And then to be given the name of a man. She was given the name Sister Peter.

And no one blinked an eye.

The women were given the names of men and the men were asked to go about dressed as women.

What in God's name has all this to do with the Gospel.

Surely an aberration.