IRELAND
Irish Central
Cahir O’Doherty @irishcentral June 27,2014
This week Catholic League president Bill Donohue, in a carefully crafted 16 page denunciation, blasted what he called the “hoax” and “mass hysteria” surrounding some reports about the Tuam, County Galway mothers and babies home scandal.
But with 796 infant deaths already a matter of public record, Donohue was left to object to the way some outlets had reported the news, but not the facts. It was a classic case of semantics versus substance, and about as illuminating.
Free-associating like a 1950’s beat poet, Donohue then rounded up the usual suspects for another round of scalding invective.
“Fresh off the heels of horror stories about the Magdalene Laundries, and the torment of Philomena Lee (as recorded in the film, “Philomena”) the public is reeling from the latest report of abuse at the hands of cruel nuns,” he wrote. But none of the claims made about Tuam are true,” he added.
“There is no mass grave. Women were not abused by nuns in the Magdalene Laundries. And Philomena’s son was never taken from her and then sold to the highest bidder.”
Nothing to see here except anti-Catholic bias. Forget the recent UN The Committee Against Torture recommendations. You can all go home now, folks.
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