800 babies buried in septic tank at Irish home for unmarried mothers

AFP/Dublin/Yahoo News ^ | 06/042014 | unknown

[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.

[metmom]

Go tell whatever backwater itinerant so called preacher you adore and get sympathy from him or her.

That would be Jesus.

[metmom]

Well, that would disqualify you.

[CynicalBear]

>>Christ established One Church.<<

Christ established a body of believers referred to as the assembly of believers. Christ did not establish a “church” as the Catholics would have us believe and it most certainly was NOT the Catholics Church. The inclusion of paganism within it’s rituals, practices, beliefs, vestments and teachings should prove to anyone searching for truth that the Catholic Church is NOT what Christ instituted.

[narses]

[Hoodat]

And what is the biggest cause of division in the Body of Christ?

The biggest cause of division in the body of Christ is a church that lost sight of the love of God, putting its own political desires and goals ahead of the purpose for which it was called.

[verga]

Well, that would disqualify you.

Ah the ignorant prot version of "I'm rubber you're glue." What are you six?

[Elsie]

Indiana just killed 32 of them today.

It’ll do the same Monday and Tuesday and Wedne...

[Elsie]

Ours come from Choosey mothers.

[Elsie]

And the haters want to make this into a scandal. Sad.

That's ok; for the lovers want to gloss over it as something that happened long ago.

It all balances out in the end.

[Elsie]

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.

If they'd only PRAYED to Mary; then she would have told her SON to heal those children.

What son could resist a pure woman's request?

[Elsie]

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

While HATER is a term of endearment...

[Elsie]

Many protestant denominations have infant baptism.

Wesleyans don't. We have babied dedication; not nearly the same. Baptism should be reserved to a person who fully understands just what baptism means.

[Elsie]

It goes to the belief that we are judged by what we know, and by judgment, that is God’s judgment.

Belief?

Fact:

Leviticus 5:17-19 New International Version (NIV)

17 “If anyone sins and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, even though they do not know it, they are guilty and will be held responsible. 18 They are to bring to the priest as a guilt offering a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value. In this way the priest will make atonement for them for the wrong they have committed unintentionally, and they will be forgiven. 19 It is a guilt offering; they have been guilty of[a] wrongdoing against the Lord.”

[Elsie]

BIGOT appears to be the LEAST of what you could be called.

[Elsie]

Elderly locals recalled that the children attended a local school — but were segregated from other pupils — until they were adopted or placed, around age 7 or 8, into church-run industrial schools that featured unpaid labor and abuse.

[Elsie]

Anyhow she ends up being blamed for the rape, at least partially, and gets sent to this place where some of the nuns can be pretty cruel.

[RedHeeler]

Good grief! May you be healed, by the breath of God

[Elsie]

...they took and in-ground cement vault, disconnected it from the septic system (it was converted, remember) and used it as a mass tomb.

[Elsie]

[MaxMax]

Of the millions who are aborted just in America our crime is more horrendous since
we are a society that can handle those American children in many ways. Adoption
is #1 on the list. I understand that back then disease and other inflictions were
predominant, but our culture has the bigger sin. Abortion must be stopped for
the morality of society to survive. Our sickness grows and it's very sad.