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To: boatbums
All it sounds like AP is apologizing for is their printing of a story in which "some" points were not factual which they had been told. It sounds like there is STILL an ongoing investigation and all the FACTS are not known. We now are told:

1. Only "some" children who died were baptized (but not all). How many? No one knows yet. How many that were put into the mass grave? We don't know yet.

2. That children born to unwed mothers were denied baptism because it was "church" teaching is clarified that it wasn't "church" teaching to deny baptism even though they don't know if some were still denied it anyway in practice.

3. The part of the story that dead children's bodies were placed in a used septic tank hasn't yet determined if it WAS a septic tank and won't be known unless and until an excavation is done. Yet, we do know that blueprints of the property show a "septic tank" in the same spot. Let's not forget many Catholics here accepted that it was a septic tank "re-purposed" for a burial vault. What is so volatile about this?

4. Until, or unless, there is an excavation, no one knows how many of the 796 children and babies who died there were buried in this structure. That eye witnesses say they SAW small skeletal remains in there when the lid was moved, hasn't changed and their testimony has not been recanted. That there were no burial records for nearly 800 children who died at that home was what prompted the whole story in the first place.

5. Finally, the year the home was opened was off a year in the AP report. Is that a HUGE deal?

Good summation of the apology. Thanks!

68 posted on 06/22/2014 7:07:46 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy
A rather churlish correction that does not indicate how they managed to get so many factual matters, and others they neglected to mention, wrong. Of course, the explanation is quite simple: ignorance and bigotry are hell on good reporting. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the major media outlets that screamed this story across the world to even note this correction. To review: Ireland exists. Everything else stated in the article is unsubstantiated or proven incorrect. (Although, thinking about it, saying that “Ireland existed in the 1920′s” could be debated. So there were no confirmed facts in the article at all.)
70 posted on 06/22/2014 8:33:20 AM PDT by NKP_Vet ("Truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself")
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