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http://news.yahoo.com/800-babies-buried-septic-tank-irish-home-unmarried-143858913.html
Please please please explain to me how ANYONE can support the churches position on this????
The mother commits a "sin", and therefore the child must also be condemned to suffer for something he/she had no control over?????
This seems so horrific and barbaric, and it's not something that only happened hundreds of years ago either.
How do you rationalize this kind of thought process with the rest of your religion?
Dublin (AFP) - Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns, according to new research Wednesday which throws more light on the Irish Catholic Church's troubled past.
Death records suggest 796 children, from newborns to eight-year-olds, were deposited in a grave near a Catholic-run home for unmarried mothers during the 35 years it operated from 1925 to 1961.
Historian Catherine Corless, who made the discovery, says her study of death records for the St Mary's home in Tuam in County Galway suggests that a former septic tank near the home was a mass grave.
Thousands of unmarried pregnant women -- labelled at the time as 'fallen women' -- were sent to the homes to have their babies.The women were ostracised by the conservative-Catholic society and were often forced to hand over their children for adoption.
Conservative Catholic teaching at the time denied children of unmarried parents baptism and therefore burial in consecrated lands.
The development is a yet another damning disclosure of a Church-run institution in Ireland following almost countless revelations of abuse and neglect at Catholic-run schools or institutions in recent decades.
Please please please explain to me how ANYONE can support the churches position on this????
The mother commits a "sin", and therefore the child must also be condemned to suffer for something he/she had no control over?????
This seems so horrific and barbaric, and it's not something that only happened hundreds of years ago either.
How do you rationalize this kind of thought process with the rest of your religion?