IRELAND
Irish Independent
Claire McCormack
Published 11/06/2014
ONE of the country’s newest nuns is horrified by the stories emerging from the mother and baby homes but believes an independent inquiry will not draw a line in the sand on the country’s past.
Sr Liz Deasy (41) fears that even when the controversy over the latest scandal to rock the Catholic Church in Ireland subsides it will only be a matter of time before another emerges.
“I’ve no problem with an independent inquiry but it won’t be the end. There will be something else, it’s been going on since Bishop Casey and I’m already waiting for the next one to emerge,” said Sr Liz, who entered the Cistercian community of St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn, Co Waterford last year.
Although she said the truth needed to come out, she thinks it will be difficult and confusing.
“I was horrified by the headlines but that was then, and this is now, and a lot of those women had nowhere else to go,” said Sr Liz, who lives with 32 other nuns at St Mary’s.
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