The fugitives from the Austrian Catholic community called the life in it "real hell"

The fugitives from the Catholic community located in the Bragery in the west of Austria and the name "labor" (das werk) spoke about the morals that reigned there.

The Englishman Darren Canning, in an interview with the Austrian State Broadcasting Company, ORF told that he had spent six years in the community and screamed every day. “It was a real hell, I prayed for death and hoped that I would die,” The Local.at quotes him.

He managed to escape from the community without money without mastering any professional skills. Darren had to start a new life in England from scratch.

The community "Labor" was founded in 1938 in Belgium by Julia Verkhieg. In 2001, this community received the blessing of the Pope John Paul II. The community management center is located in Bregenz, but its branches are available in a number of European countries, as well as in the USA and in Jerusalem. The monks and priests live in the community, as well as the layman-male, admitted to the "family" by leadership.

According to Kenning, the community management is based on the "system of religious mania, control and suppression." This arbitrariness, he believes, must be stopped.

As the fugitive said, all contacts with people who are not related to the community are subject to control from the religious authorities. Any telephone conversations and correspondence were censored.

Kenning said that when his grandfather died, he was not allowed to go to England for a funeral. Moreover, the justification of the refusal was that the grandfather was not a Christian.

The representative of "Labor", for its part, confirmed Orf that such rules used to exist before, but today they were canceled. He also stated that if Kenning insisted on his intention to visit his grandfather’s funeral, then he would be over to say goodbye to him.

One of the priests, who previously served in the community, but did not want to name his name, told the Austrian media that he also knows about cases of sexual abuse from the clergy regarding women-"workers".

In such situations, it was that women in this kind of “incidents”, as a rule, were ranked to “seducers”. “Even if a woman was subjected to sexual violence, she was considered an accomplice of the incident simply because she was a woman,” said Orf anonymous interlocutor.

Doris Wagner, a former nun who had previously lived in the community, recently published a book called "Nicht Mehr Ich" ("enough") in which she talks about how she, being 19 -year -old, was raped in a Bregren with an Austrian priest.

A German citizen, she left the community in 2011 morally crushed, devoid of livelihood and social contacts. This was written in a press release by the publisher of her book.

Doris Wagner, describing his sad story, claims that in the community it was "ruled, subjected to sexual violence and suppressed." The authorities deprived her of any civil rights, used it as cheap labor, did not protect against sexual attacks and did not show any concern, even when it fell ill.

Publisher Doris Wagner emphasized that although she tried to file a lawsuit against the priest who had gone to her both in Germany and in Austria, however, the minister of the Church always managed to prove that she herself was not against his bastings.

Meanwhile, one of the current leaders of “Labor”, Priest Georg Gantzioler, expressed Orf regret that Doris Wagner “looks around in the community in such a negative way, and does not mention the positive points that she experienced there.”

However, the gantosiler also confirmed that the hierarchy studied complaints received to him and that the commission, who arrived from the Vatican, gave the community a corresponding assessment, which has not yet been voiced.

The ruling bishop of the local diocese Beno Elbs refused to answer the questions of the Austrian press agency, saying that he was waiting for the results of the visit of the Vatican Commission.

The community "labor" is not in the jurisdiction of Bishop Elbs, but is directly subordinate to the Pope.