It has to do with money.
My grandmother, the second daughter in a family of 22 children, was given to the Roman Catholic church at age 3. Her older sister had been promised in marriage to a family friend but died at age 16, so my grandmother was taken from the convent, cleaned up, and married off to the family friend. He wasn’t pleased with his bride who hadn’t the beautiful dark-haired, blue-eyed Irish loveliness of her older sister but rather the orange-haired, pudgy-faced look of her Scottish ancestors. Thankfully she could cook (it had, after all, been a French convent) and her husband put her to work in his restaurants.
When she became pregnant he beat her because she couldn’t work due to her condition. She miscarried. When she became pregnant again, she fled her husband and sought an annulment.
He headed off that action by donating large amounts of money to the church.
Heretics have a point when they say the Roman Catholic church is rotten, but it isn’t the church - it is the hierarchy who are only too human and rotten.
>> He wasn’t pleased with his bride who hadn’t the beautiful dark-haired, blue-eyed Irish loveliness of her older sister but rather the orange-haired, pudgy-faced look of her Scottish ancestors.
Huh? Lived in Ireland for three months - orange hair was all over the place. Don’t think I ever saw any in my mother’s birthplace - Scotland.
Sounds like her Mum and Dad were a real piece of work - first, they gave grandma to the Church (what ever happened to free will?) , then yanked her out of the convent and dumped her on asshat.