IRELAND
Sunday World
AMANDA BRUNKER
Seven-hundred-and-ninety-six babies and infants dumped in a septic tank.
Could the Catholic Church make it any more difficult for people to keep faith?
The Government has done what it does best: set up a complex inter-departmental committee to investigate this.
The home closed 53 years ago, so what’s another few years to wait for answers, eh?
The Church has ordered the nuns who ran the home where the mass grave was found to co-operate with all enquires. So they’ve hired a PR company with a fancy name to make statements.
Our own Fr Brian D’Arcy described the septic tank tomb of skeletal bones as akin “to a horror story from Nazi Germany in WWII”.
As usual, he is the only member of the clergy to call it like it is. Because we can now see the network of mother-and-baby homes run under the cloak of Catholic morality for what they were: Ireland’s concentration camps.
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