IRELAND
Irish Mirror
12 April 2015 By James Ward
Catherine Corless, whose research revealed 794 children were buried in a mass grave in Co Galway, said the clergy had no interest in hearing the truth when the story emerged
The woman who revealed the horror of the Tuam babies scandal has slammed the Catholic Church for its response to the atrocity.
Catherine Corless, whose research revealed 794 children were buried in a mass grave in Co Galway, said the clergy had no interest in hearing the truth when the story emerged.
Appearing in an episode of RTE’s Would You Believe? tonight, Ms Corless said she had expected a much bigger response from the Church which ran the mother and baby home where the children perished.
She revealed: “I really expected the clergy to come forward and to help us out and to do something about this atrocity.
“Nobody wanted to listen, nobody wanted to hear this story, nobody wanted to face the truth. That to me, wasn’t what Jesus preached when he was on earth.”
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