800 babies buried in septic tank at Irish home for unmarried mothers

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

So yesterday we bashed Mormonism, today we are bashing Catholicism.

I wonder which faith shall be bashed tomorrow.

I know which one it will not be if you want to hang around here

Edited June 5, 2014 by The Nature Boy

[mota bhai 2,675]

I know which one it will not be if you want to hang around here

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Is that a Grateful dead concert ?

I know that was a dangerous comment, if I disappear pray for me in the hole

[mota bhai 2,675]

Is that a Grateful dead concert ?

I know that was a dangerous comment, if I disappear pray for me in the hole

For that comment, you get 72 syphilitic ex-hookers in hell. And no antibiotics to be found.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

For that comment, you get 72 syphilitic ex-hookers in hell. And no antibiotics to be found.

I will take that. Who in the hell wants 72 prissy Virgins. I want 72 woman who have been around and will do stuff

[mota bhai 2,675]

I guess you do not share my aversion to disease.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

I guess you do not share my aversion to disease.

Well back when i was single, I figure. I am 52 if I get Aids I got a good 20+ years before it takes me. To hell with condoms

[GandD 5,966]

That's the kind of comment I would expect from someone who would also say, "more cushin' for the pushin'"

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

That's the kind of comment I would expect from someone who would also say, "more cushin' for the pushin'"

Today's societal idea of a stick with tits is not healthy and, at least for me is not a sexy look.

[GandD 5,966]

Today's societal idea of a stick with tits is not healthy and, at least for me is not a sexy look.

So you hang out at Walmart a bunch?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

That's the kind of comment I would expect from someone who would also say, "more cushin' for the pushin'"

So you hang out at Walmart a bunch?

No I don't like Wal-Mart,

The hottest women hang out at BASS Pro Shop. The beauty of the woman rises directly proportional to the amount of disposable income being spent in a Retail establishment

[JohnR! 5,495]

So long as the mothers or the babies were not stoned it is all fine and well.

800 babies buried in septic tank at Irish home for unmarried mothers

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Irish police stand guard outside a Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, on May 15, 2011 (AFP Photo/)

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.

The septic tank, full to the brim with bones, was discovered in 1975 by locals when concrete slabs covering the tank broke up.

Until now, locals believed the bones mainly stemmed from the Great Irish famine of the 1840s when hundreds of thousands perished.

St Mary's, run by the Bons Secours Sisters, was one of several such 'mother and baby' homes in early 20th century Ireland.

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.

Health issues and problems associated with the homes have long been documented. As far back as 1944, a government inspection report of the Tuam home described some of the children as "fragile, pot-bellied and emaciated."

The recently discovered death records for St Mary's show the 796 children died from malnutrition and infectious diseases, such as measles and TB.

Conservative Catholic teaching at the time denied children of unmarried parents baptism and therefore burial in consecrated lands.

The home was knocked down many years ago to make way for new houses, but the area around the unmarked mass grave has been maintained by locals.

A fundraising committee has now been formed and it is hoped that a memorial will be built with all the names and ages of the children displayed.

The Archbishop of Tuam Michael Neary said he would meet leaders of the Bons Secours Sisters to assist with the memorial.

Meanwhile, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin said that if a public inquiry into the 'mother and baby' homes in Ireland was not established then a social history project was necessary.

Martin also said he supports "excavating what may be unmarked graves" at these sites.

A junior government minister has called for an inquiry to be established and the issue is expected to be discussed at cabinet.

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.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

So long as the mothers or the babies were not stoned it is all fine and well.

Both situations are horrible.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Both situations are horrible.

Horrible doesn't begin to cover it...

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Horrible doesn't begin to cover it...

I know. Some things leave you speechless. Something is really wrong with the world.