DUBLIN — Eleven-year-old
Tom Sweeney kept skipping school. Eight-year-old Mannix Flynn got
caught stealing a box of chocolates. And Christine Buckley, barely a
month old, was found guilty of being the child of an unwed mother.
In the morally rigid Roman Catholic Ireland of old, such sins were
sufficient to land all three children — and more than 30,000 others
throughout the 20th century — in Dickensian workhouses for girls and
boys run with an iron fist by Catholic religious orders.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30838320/ns/world_news-europe/t/catholic-church-shamed-irish-abuse-report/#.VyvkNEc1eUl
