Ireland and the Catholic Church
This article is to answer many questions I have been asked as to “What is the problem in Ireland?” This is not intended in any way to influence your – Beliefs, Religion, Church, Faith or your God. Yes, there are still some good honest hard working priests within the church. Others religions have problems too, but within the Catholic Church, this is an epidemic.
These facts speak for themselves, whether you believe or not, it’s not important. What is important is the saga of the sexual abuse within the church and its murky past especially in Ireland. There was a time when the church, had more power and influence than the government. Thankfully those days are long gone. An example of this is a comparison between the visit of Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis.
Pope John Paul II 1979 (Before the sex scandal)
Population: 3,374 Million. Catholic: 90%. Papal Mass in Phoenix Park: 1 million, with an overall crowd of more than 2.5 million over 3 days.
Pope Francis 2018 (After the sex scandal)
Population: 4,803 Million. Catholic: 79%. Papal Mass in Phoenix Park: 130 thousand, with an overall crowd of less than 1 million over 2 days.
So, what has changed besides the Abuse?
The Magdalene Laundries also known as The Magdalene asylums, were institutions of confinement, usually run by Roman Catholic orders, which operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run ostensibly to house "fallen women", an estimated 30,000 who were confined in these institutions in Ireland. In 1993, a mass grave containing 155 corpses was uncovered in the convent grounds of one of the laundries. This only came to light by accident, when, in Dublin in 1993, the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity had lost money in share dealings on the stock exchange; to cover their losses, they sold part of the land in their convent to a property developer. Many of these women were buried with broken bones! Two films to watch on Netflix or Online: The Magdalene Sisters, also an
Official 52 Minute Documentary – Magdalene Laundries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4VAdN7HaxQ
Philomena
Philomena: In 1952, as an Irish teenager she became pregnant out of wedlock and was sent to a convent where her baby was sent to the USA by nuns. For the next 50 years, she searched tirelessly for her son……. Philomena can be seen online.
“Out of Wedlock”- Not married. “Fallen Woman”, a term used many years ago for a woman who was pregnant and unmarried. These women brought shame on their families and had to leave home, some never returning or returning with no child. It is hard to imagine nowadays, but we live in different times.
Mother and Baby Home
A mass unmarked grave containing the remains of babies and children has been discovered at a former Catholic care home in Ireland. The former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, have uncovered an underground structure divided into 20 chambers containing “significant quantities (300-800) human remains”. There is no documentation as to how these mothers/ babies/children died. The mothers were separated from their children, who remained elsewhere in the home, raised by nuns until they could be adopted or sold off to the USA. Ireland and the rest of the world have been inflicted with this horrendous abuse of power and abuse of innocent victims. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoulaehrD_I
14 more Mother and Baby Homes around Ireland are under investigation, a report is expected sometime this year.
A total of 101 priests have been accused, 49 are deceased, 34 are living and remain priests of the diocese, and 18 have left the priesthood and/or the diocese. In total, they faced 432 separate allegations of abuse.
Only nine priests have been convicted of abuse in the criminal courts since 1975, and just 12 in total since 1940. There is no official count of how many children were actually abused over the years, or of how many took their secret /shame to the grave.
Ireland is just one country, multiply that worldwide, to date there are over ten thousand victims, and five thousand priests accused.
Celibacy within the Church is an outdated man-made rule, in the past Priests, Bishops and even Popes were married. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexually_active_popes
Sex between consenting adults is legal – Sex with a child (paedophile) is illegal, and it should be an automatic prison sentence, priest or no priest. So far priests have been protected using clause within “The Canon Law.”
Today priests in Ireland cannot be left in the company of children without adult supervision, including before and after Mass.
So much abuse for such a small country, the whole of Ireland is equal to half the population of Bogota.
Until next Tuesday- Be good.
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