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800 babies buried in septic tank at Irish home for unmarried mothers
AFP/Dublin/Yahoo News ^ | 06/042014 | unknown

Posted on 06/04/2014 9:51:45 PM PDT by boatbums

Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns, according to new research Wednesday which throws more light on the Irish Catholic Church's troubled past.

Death records suggest 796 children, from newborns to eight-year-olds, were deposited in a grave near a Catholic-run home for unmarried mothers during the 35 years it operated from 1925 to 1961.

Historian Catherine Corless, who made the discovery, says her study of death records for the St Mary's home in Tuam in County Galway suggests that a former septic tank near the home was a mass grave.

The septic tank, full to the brim with bones, was discovered in 1975 by locals when concrete slabs covering the tank broke up.

Until now, locals believed the bones mainly stemmed from the Great Irish famine of the 1840s when hundreds of thousands perished.

St Mary's, run by the Bons Secours Sisters, was one of several such 'mother and baby' homes in early 20th century Ireland.

Thousands of unmarried pregnant women -- labelled at the time as 'fallen women' -- were sent to the homes to have their babies.

The women were ostracised by the conservative-Catholic society and were often forced to hand over their children for adoption.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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To: who_would_fardels_bear

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21 posted on 06/04/2014 10:23:14 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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To: bramps

“That you are defending evil.”

What “evil” am I “defending” bramps?


22 posted on 06/04/2014 10:26:01 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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To: PGR88

Well done!


23 posted on 06/04/2014 10:26:36 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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To: narses
"Records indicate that the former Tuam workhouse’s septic tank was converted specifically to serve as the body disposal site for the orphanage."

Evil.


24 posted on 06/04/2014 10:27:47 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: boatbums

“My screenname is “BOATBUMS” because my husband and I lived aboard a sailboat for 8 years and a powerboat/trawler for 5 years.”

So your bathos for the poor is a tad shamfilled maybe?


25 posted on 06/04/2014 10:28:31 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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To: familyop

How is that “evil”?


26 posted on 06/04/2014 10:28:52 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear; narses

“Quick Narses, run to the strawman. He’ll defend us. God knows I can’t defend what this article says.”


27 posted on 06/04/2014 10:31:50 PM PDT by bramps (Go West America!)
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To: bramps

“That you are defending evil.”

What “evil” am I “defending” bramps?


28 posted on 06/04/2014 10:32:45 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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To: boatbums
Philomena
29 posted on 06/04/2014 10:37:23 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: boatbums

Bigot is a nasty phrase, are you calling me a bigot?


30 posted on 06/04/2014 10:38:35 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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To: narses

Evil screams from this article. You just refuse to see it.


31 posted on 06/04/2014 10:38:43 PM PDT by bramps (Go West America!)
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To: bramps
And the pilgrims and other early religious groups would banish members of their communities into the wilderness to almost certain death.

And devout Christians of both Catholic and Protestant faiths imprisoned, tortured, and burned at the stake those that disagreed with them.

And lots of white Christians in the 50's did too little to end racism in America.

And lots of Christians in the 50's still treated women as second class citizens.

Countless sins were committed throughout history by non-Christians and Christians of all faiths.

Narses is right to point out that this article is written in such a way that it overstates what occurred at this orphanage.

Especially in relation to all of the other horrors that we have visited upon our fellow man and continue to visit upon one another today.

32 posted on 06/04/2014 10:39:19 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: bramps

Oh no, I see the evil. You fail to. What are you claiming that is “evil” that I “defend”?


33 posted on 06/04/2014 10:40:10 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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To: narses
Records indicate that the former Tuam workhouse’s septic tank was converted specifically to serve as the body disposal site for the orphanage.

I wonder what that means, it just kind of hangs there, do you have a better source on that "conversion" or when they decided to quit using it and replaced it, or anything?

34 posted on 06/04/2014 10:40:16 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: ansel12

Respectful of the unmarked grave in their midst, residents long have kept the grass trimmed and built a small grotto with a statue of the Virgin Mary.

- See more at: http://www.shepherdstownchronicle.com/page/content.detail/id/517531/Irish-church-under-fire-over-children-s-mass-grave.html?isap=1&nav=5134#sthash.kdeb4zsP.dpuf


35 posted on 06/04/2014 10:41:37 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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To: narses

Most weren’t orphans. That was a home women were sent to if they were pregnant and unmarried. They should have been with their relatives. But the Roman Church made that near impossible. Almost as charming as their reason for dumping the dead babies in the septic tank. Children of unmarried parents could not be baptized, and therefore could not be buried in a churchground.
Blaming Catholics today for this is unfair,, unless they want to go back to the old ways. I doubt the modern church would do this. But the old ones were some harsh mean SOBs.


36 posted on 06/04/2014 10:43:57 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
And lots of Christians in the 50's still treated women as second class citizens.

What does that mean?

37 posted on 06/04/2014 10:44:33 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: narses

Yeah I went there, that is why I posted to you.

I wonder what that means, it just kind of hangs there, do you have a better source on that “conversion” or when they decided to quit using it and replaced it, or anything?

As a Plumbing Contractor, I’m curious about your sources claim.


38 posted on 06/04/2014 10:46:55 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: DesertRhino

With no health service and deep poverty, the number of children working class parents had to watch die was horrendous. Infant mortality soared. In 1926 in Ireland 120 of every 1,000 babies under the age of one died compared to six of every 1,000 today.36 As late as 1949 over 50 of every 1,000 babies died before the age of one. One child in 16 born in 1949 did not live to see her or his fifth birthday. Diarrhoea and enteritis were the biggest killers of babies. Tuberculosis and other preventable and treatable diseases swept through the slums, killing older children. All these children died of poverty.37

http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj91/horgan.htm


39 posted on 06/04/2014 10:47:35 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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To: ansel12

Nope. Just what we know.


40 posted on 06/04/2014 10:48:15 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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