IRELAND
Irish Independent
Fr Brian D’Arcy has said the mass baby grave discovered in Tuam is “an incredible, awful, unchristian and unsocial thing”.
Speaking to John Keogh on Newstalk Lunchtime earlier today, he said it was unbelievable that such a thing could have happened in his own lifetime.
“When I heard it first I really began to think that this was some atrocity that had happened in a foreign country, or remnants of a famine in some other country, or a bad regime, because that’s what it sounded like.
“It’s just a dreadful, horrible thing, and I simply couldn’t believe it was in my own lifetime and in the same kind of religion to which I belonged to and have professed all my life. I just simply doesn’t bear thinking about it.
“It’s just a kind of hypocrisy that keeps popping up from that era.
“Political hypocrisy, religious hypocrisy, and it’s the kind of thing which says some children were very valuable while at the same time it seems to have been this massive thing that children from unmarried mothers were not valuable, and when you look at it there can be no other conclusion drawn from it.”
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