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800 babies buried in septic tank at Irish home for unmarried mothers
AFP/Dublin/Yahoo News ^
| 06/042014
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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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KEYWORDS: abortion; adoption; agenda; bethanyhomes; bitterwoman; catholic; erroneous; false; infanticide; ireland; msm; notabortion; notahoax; prolife
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To: ansel12
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posted on
06/07/2014 6:26:30 PM PDT
by
narses
(Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
To: Albion Wilde
Irish verbal abuse: your post is a case in point. Why, because you used bigger words? Your very position proves my point - you see my response to your verbal abuse as verbal abuse, and you see your verbal abuse as a neutral analysis of collective variations in situational understanding by socioeconomically differentiated historical religious populations.
You just don't think anyone else can see what you're doing.
202
posted on
06/07/2014 6:42:28 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Albion Wilde
See post 198.
I’m not surprised though, that now you have posted a irrelevant biography about yourself.
203
posted on
06/07/2014 6:45:17 PM PDT
by
ansel12
((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
To: Albion Wilde
As you may know, various ethnicities of Catholics include strains of folklore and other cultural characteristics in their churches. Yeah, and they also contained that canon of belief developed and upheld by the scholars of the Vatican's magisterium and reflected in its catechism.
There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity.
Yep. Ignorance is believing you can successfully refer to people as stupid in such a way that you believe they are incapable of seeing past an occluding level of sociological hyper-specificity and realizing what you are actually saying.
Stupidity is doubling down when you've been outed.
And CONTEXT is remembering that your basic point is that these knuckle-dragging Irish didn't know the difference between a Catholic funeral and burial and being dumped into a SEPTIC TANK, you insufferable jackass.
204
posted on
06/07/2014 6:52:04 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Prince of Space
I doubt you have any idea about my "posting history". I you had, you'd know I have posted very few threads at all in my nearly ten years here. Save the personal attacks for things you know something about.
Is there a thread somewhere about Bethany House? I haven't seen one and had I seen one I would be saying the EXACT same thing I've been saying here. I imagine HAD there been one, you'd be at the front of the line condemning all Protestants for what "they" allowed to happen and not even consider that there was more to investigate - JUST as I already said on THIS thread.
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posted on
06/07/2014 6:54:29 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
To: narses
Where is the source for this new information? It wasn’t in the one I read.
206
posted on
06/07/2014 6:57:06 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
To: narses; Jim Robinson
Does JR know you hound and harass people you think have money? Its creepy! Lets ask him? Jim - did you know that one poster here claims that I hound and harrass people here who have money? (I dont, but that is the nasty claim by the hater who jumps on every anti-Catholic thread and seems to buy ever anti-Catholic slander published.) I have pinged my list as they can help either confirm or deny bums claim that I am a creepy harrasser! Sorry to see you bothered JR...sure he has better things to do than referee a thread spat! But, yes, this IS about the fourth time you have brought up information from my profile that my husband and I used to live on a boat and sail around. You have done so in the context of presuming we must be rich (we aren't - but even if we were, is there something WRONG about that?) and we don't care about the "poor". That's typical behavior for a Liberal trying to incite class warfare. It was quite surprising to see this from someone who is a member of a Conservative website. It fits the classical definition of harassment - since you do this frequently - and it IS creepy to me. Does your wife know you say this kind of stuff to women you don't know?
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posted on
06/07/2014 7:05:32 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
To: boatbums
Four times? Wow. Amazing. And of course you are good at mind reading, so you know why I do that?
You really need to buy a life. Your pathetic smears reflect on you. As does your screen name. ‘bums.
208
posted on
06/07/2014 7:08:33 PM PDT
by
narses
(Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
To: PGR88
Yes, thank you for the additional information just published today. From this new article:
Corless has proved that 796 children died while at St Marys in Tuam a shameful statistic that would not have been known without her years of dedicated work. It seems clear that at least some of these children lie in the small plot of land at the back of the Dublin Road housing estate. Excavation might be the only way to be sure. Our intention in setting up this committee was not excavation, she says, but I would welcome the truth.
We should ALL welcome the truth - no matter where it leads.
209
posted on
06/07/2014 7:14:47 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
To: narses
This building was an old workhouse before it was an orphanage They no longer needed a working septic tank when it was a workhouse, decades before city sewers reached the address?
210
posted on
06/07/2014 7:16:17 PM PDT
by
ansel12
((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
To: narses
We don't know all the information, do we, narses. It seems your speculation that nothing at all was wrong in how these children died, were treated and disposed of after they died because the Catholic Church would NEVER do such a thing, is just as sad as those you presume swallow whatever the media feeds them. It's called hypocrisy, in case you were searching for a word. Yes, by all means, let the truth come out!
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posted on
06/07/2014 7:19:26 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
To: boatbums; Prince of Space
Poor, poor ‘bums, everyone appears out to get you!
If you did not join every anti-Catholic tirade, buying every MSM smear, you might not be noticed. But you probably could have figgered that at on your lonesome, right poor ‘bums?
212
posted on
06/07/2014 7:20:56 PM PDT
by
narses
(Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
To: bramps
Yep, that works, too! ;o)
213
posted on
06/07/2014 7:21:01 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
To: Veto!
May God rest their souls. All of them. Amen. I know He will.
214
posted on
06/07/2014 7:23:44 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
To: boatbums
“It seems clear that at least some of these children lie in the small plot of land at the back of the Dublin Road housing estate.”
Really? Clear? You appear to have a high trust for the MSM and a low need for actual FACTS. Sad.
215
posted on
06/07/2014 7:24:16 PM PDT
by
narses
(Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
To: Albion Wilde; ansel12
Let’s hope that you didn’t miss the avid anti-Protestantism that leapt into this thread by the “you guys did it too” crowd.
216
posted on
06/07/2014 7:32:50 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
To: narses
As usual, oblivious to your own insipidness!
217
posted on
06/07/2014 7:49:47 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
To: boatbums
218
posted on
06/07/2014 7:50:33 PM PDT
by
narses
(Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
To: Albion Wilde
Well said. Yours is a voice of reason in the midst of a public hating. Thank you.
219
posted on
06/07/2014 7:55:54 PM PDT
by
narses
(Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
To: ansel12
220
posted on
06/07/2014 7:56:15 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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