After having read the links posted here to refute the original post, I see them as straw-man arguments, focusing on impertinent details. The fact is that hundreds of children were kept (by a church-run institution) in deplorable and inhumane conditions, and died of preventable ailments.
Deplorable an inhumane conditions existed in the struggling classes of much of post-WWI and WWII Europe, and particularly in post Potato Famine Ireland. Have you never read anything about the widespread poverty in Ireland, even Angela's Ashes? How about the struggles in Naples and the rest of Southern Italy? Why do you think so many Europeans gave up everything to come here during the last century?
Possibly you think our foster-care system (in which welfare "moms" apply for several so they can get a bigger government check each month) that commodifies the cast-off children of drug addicts and teen moms, supervised by our stellar system of social workers who routinely overlook egregious child abuse and murder, is a far superior system to what you see in those photos above.
“The fact is that hundreds of children were kept (by a church-run institution) in deplorable and inhumane conditions, and died of preventable ailments.”
Except that statement is false to fact. The Tuam home was a government institution, it regularly was inspected and regularly passed with high marks.
What alternate reality portal did you get your falsehoods from, the DemocraticUnderground?
These institutions were hell-holes and women living in himes for unwed mothers reported being treated like $&#!, and looked upon as worthless.
This does not jive with the RCC prating that they are oh so holy and all.
This lines up with the Magdalene graves found, but never fully investigated, and with other sites where babies were buried, but the RCC can’t provide proof that any priest could bother to get off his pampered butt and bother himself to perform a baptism for the unfortunate child, nor give him/her a proper burial.
In short, don’t show us your righteousness by chanting in Latin, or shaking an incense container - show it by caring for the least of these.....