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.
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Oh, honey, I don't need your mind reading attempts for why I posted this thread nor your helpful hints for how to "woman up". I certainly don't need lessons on how to debate and discuss topics on this forum. There are MANY of your fellow Roman Catholics who have no intention at all to "come here to learn and share" but intentionally to "divide, condemn and reject" everyone who isn't Roman Catholic. How about a little objectivity? I don't need to defend myself nor explain, yet again, why I post what I do. I rarely start threads much less ones that provoke out of the box designed to injure and inflame - and this certainly was not, contrary to the hysterical reactions some have expressed. Save that scolding for those within your clique who must deride, smear, snarl and snipe at everyone who dares defend the faith once delivered unto the saints.
The comments about "mind reading" are a HOOT! N.B. This is the "Smokey Back Room" - the rules are different!
Poor 'bums, trying to stir up trouble - again! And failing, again!
Go to http://www.patheos.com and type in search engine “was catholic teaching involved in latest Ireland scandal”. Read the comments at the end of the article. Bodies were not thrown in a septic tank.
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I know. Malnutrition is such a debilitating, naturally occurring phenomenon.. Why can’t we as a nation simply move on?
So what?
Baptism doesn't save anyone any way so what's the big deal?
Interesting.
There are FRoman Catholics who claim that ANYONE who is ever baptized is by default a Catholic. That being baptized anywhere makes them Catholic.
So which is it?
Probably 6.
Tops.....
That's a pretty damning citation from that link.
Where's all that love and forgiveness RC's brag on all the time?
Well, bb, the Nazis have been brought in.
Godwin's Law.
Declare victory. You made your point.
So if someone disconnected a septic tank (which I highly doubt they cleaned out first) you wouldn't mind being *buried* there?
I’m not surprised you’re ridiculing the Catholic resistance to the Holocaust.
What a hoot.
In her almost 9 years posting on FR, this is the THIRD thread she's ever posted even relating to Catholicism.
Why don't you learn what you're talking about first before throwing around slanderous accusations as if they were fact.
Your post screams *desperation*. Anything to try to make a non-Catholic look bad.
Without knowing the details of what went on in the house, the simple fact that the bodies were *buried* in an old used septic system, is more than enough to warrant condemnation.
Even if that were the only wrong perpetrated by that group, and I somehow doubt that anyone who would *bury* babies in an old septic system would be paragons of virtue in treating them well in life, it would still deserve condemnation.
All the rest is speculation. The bodies in the septic tank are fact.
Which what is it?
There’s a catechism. That’s the teaching of tge church. Everything else is something else
The ghost of Quix past.....
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