[boatbums]

So they took and in-ground cement vault, disconnected it from the septic system (it was converted, remember) and used it as a mass tomb. What is hideous about that?

Did you miss the part in the article that said the townspeople didn't know that's what the tank contained? From the article:

Until now, locals believed the bones mainly stemmed from the Great Irish famine of the 1840s when hundreds of thousands perished."

Health issues and problems associated with the homes have long been documented. As far back as 1944, a government inspection report of the Tuam home described some of the children as "fragile, pot-bellied and emaciated."

Let me ask you, as a Catholic, do you approve of what these people did in the name of the Catholic Church? So many FRoman Catholics boast that "their" church gave the world the Bible, the Gospel, kept us from worshiping false gods and were the ones who brought the world Western "civilization", yet, when news comes out about bad things done in the name of their church, they scurry to cover up, rationalize, point to others who were worse or accuse those who bring it to light as haters, bigots and anti-Catholic. Do you not recognize hypocrisy?

[narses]

“Let me ask you, as a Catholic, do you approve of what these people did in the name of the Catholic Church?”

What did “they” do? They took care of the poor and unwanted, we know that. What is it that you deem so evil that anyone should be ashamed?