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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ROTFLMAO@!
You are getting shrill there ‘bums. That you show up on every public hate thread is well known. Your skin gets thinner with age though. Guard yourself against hatred and rage, they are the tools of the Devil. But you surely could have figured that out just from reading the Bible, right?
I’m sure that she tries to participate but just gets overwhelmed, so she becomes child like.
Ahh, the soul of courtesy there, always pinging the poster you are trying to insult.
Sad. But then that is typical.
It gets useless posting to someone who won’t, or can’t respond, so they become child like and post large cartoons as a meaningless, but negative way to lash out in emotional frustration.
Really? So manners are optional in your world?
As for your attempts at mind reading, my suggestion is that you stop. You are not very good at it.
That's funny. Some of us have noticed that very thing about you. If something negative is posted about Catholicism, there we will find boatbums.
:)
Are you the one who attached the keyword “abortion” to this thread?
Not me. :)
The reality is in the open,your posts with the oversize cartoons, and your constant and repetitive, response avoiding spam, is on countless threads.
“Public Hate thread”??? Is that how shrill anti-everyone-but-us-Catholics view threads that expose wrong in the RCC? Your posts get zanier and dumber the more you post. Hard to imagine they can...but they just do! No doubt your next rejoinder will prove it.
I did. It is an article that deals with pro-life issues as I already stated. Keywords are used by people interested in certain topics. It was hardly suggesting the nuns did abortions! Do you have a problem with that keyword?
I didn't post it to the "Smoky Back Room". Any idea who convinced a moderator to change it?
So manners are optional in your world?
As for your attempts at mind reading, my suggestion is that you stop. You are not very good at it.
LOL, so no courtesy in your world either?
Shocking!
Oh! Did you think I was referring to you? Is that shoe getting too tight?
LOL, you funny.
Not.
I rest my case.
Yes, they were called laundries or asylums. I found the movie Magdalene Sisters enlightening because I didn’t know these places even existed. I knew there were homes for unwed mothers and asylums for the mentally ill but girls who did nothing wrong could be sentenced to one of these “laundries” by her own family simply for giving the appearance that she might not have the highest of values (flirty, promiscuous, bad-temptered etc.) and it could be very harsh there.
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