Atheist Film: The Magdalene Sisters

The Magdalene Asylums were Catholic institutions for “fallen women” (women deemed immoral by their parents), who were confined there indefinitely to work as slaves for nuns and be beaten, degraded, mentally and sexually abused.
In the Middle Ages, right? No. The last Magdalene Asylum closed in 1996, in Ireland. (A 2,600-page report on the abuses of Magdalene Asylums was released in May, 2009.)

http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=2509 

I got an early tip about a priest’s sexual abuse. And I sat on it.

A former reporter is haunted by the story he didn't pursue four decades ago.

I always knew that watching “Spotlight” was going to be difficult for me, so I kept putting it off. Finally, with my wife out of town last week, I sprawled on the family-room floor with my two big dogs and steeled myself to view the Oscar-winning film about the investigation of sexual abuse in Boston’s Catholic Church. I was glad Patricia was away. I didn’t want her to see my tears.
As the next two hours crawled by, I was consumed by three emotions: admiration for the Boston Globe’s investigative team, pride in the journalism profession I have labored in for more than four decades — and guilt.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/04/08/i-got-an-early-tip-about-a-priests-sexual-abuse-and-i-sat-on-it/

Mount Magdala & Nazareth House 1941 to 1965

24 years in these catholic church orphanages. The Good Shepherd and then the Nazareth House nuns took the place of my family. They told me my mother was dead. In the two orphanages life needed to meet the nun's requirements. In part this meant that, because my mother was sinful, if I was not beaten to change me, I would be too. So they said when they beat me.
I find it hard to think about it because to remember it to re-live the fear and confusion - the unhappiness of being a child able only to hope that if! earned the nun's favour, I would become one of the children who the nuns cared about; who had a life which was sure to end in Heaven. Instead of being the child the nuns' found me to be - who needed to be beaten for her mother's sin and because, although there was little hope for it, that might help me to be worthy of love - eventually God's love.

http://annfreespiritnunsabusedchildren.blogspot.co.nz/p/blog-page_20.html

Nudgee Orphanage Queensland,

I would like to know, how come there are no Orginsations, Members of Parliament or any one in authority including yourself, or your superiors, that has exposed any of the barabric torture of the Forgotten Australian children that were dumped by the government, for various reasons of their own , into adult mental asylums for “adolesecent rebellion”. supposedly , and were under the care of Doctors and Psychiatrists who also abused them..
Why is it not classified as abuse and torture equal and as ‘destructive’ abuse as those who were sexually abused?

http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2010/03/17/nudgee/juanita-5/ 

Abuse inquiry told nun forced young girl to perform sex act

The Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry has heard claims that a child was forced to perform oral sex on a nun.

A witness, who was a resident at Nazareth House in Derry’s Bishop Street during the 1960s, said she was between the ages of four and five when she was made to lie on her back on the floor by a nun who straddled her, lifting her habit and forcing the child to perform a sex act on her. She said she was terrified.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/abuse-inquiry-told-nun-forced-young-girl-to-perform-sex-act-1.1687648 

Salesian nuns help enslaved girls in Tamil Nadu

In Chennai, the St. Joseph's Special Care Home feeds, clothes and educates orphaned, abandoned and abused girls, from 4 to 18 in age. Rashmi is one of them. Sold at the age of six, she was beaten and abused by her employer. The home offers sports, games and singing to complete the girls' education and give them the "best possible future."
Chennai (AsiaNews) - A group of nuns from the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (also known as the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco) are providing a home, food, clothing, care, education as well as leisure and sport to a group of girls and young women who survived abuse, child labour or the loss of their parents. They are preparing them to fight the future exploitation of Indian women. 

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Salesian-nuns-help-enslaved-girls-in-Tamil-Nadu-26933.html

Judge: Lawsuit alleging abuse at St. Ignatius Catholic school can proceed

HELENA – A federal judge ruled that 95 people can pursue sex abuse claims in state court against an order of nuns during bankruptcy proceedings involving the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena.

The Ursuline Sisters of the Western Province aren’t covered by an automatic stay in civil proceedings that was granted to the diocese when it filed for Chapter 11 protection, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Terry Myers said in a Friday order.

http://missoulian.com/news/local/judge-lawsuit-alleging-abuse-at-st-ignatius-catholic-school-can/article_eeead160-b92d-11e3-a6b5-0019bb2963f4.html 

Irish Catholic church child abuse: 'A cruel and wicked system'

Artane industrial school former pupil says he is unconvinced report will reveal full truth about abuse in Catholic-run institutions.
In their distinctive Thunderbirds-style light-blue uniforms with red trim the Artane Boys Band are icons of Irish music. For decades, the band marched around the pitch at Croke Park, Dublin, and played across Ireland, Britain and the US.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/20/irish-catholic-church-child-abuse1 

Clann: Ireland’s Unmarried Mothers and their Children: Gathering the Data

In June of this year, Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) and Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA) launched Clann: Ireland’s Unmarried Mothers and their Children: Gathering the Data (Clann), which is a joint initiative with global law firm, Hogan Lovells. We would be very grateful if you could pass the following information on to anyone who you believe may benefit from Clann’s assistance.

The purpose of Clann is to help establish the truth of what happened to unmarried mothers and their children in 20th century Ireland and thus to help ensure that investigation and reparation measures are as comprehensive and effective as possible. Clann is assisting individuals affected by or involved with the treatment of unmarried mothers and their children to provide evidence to the ongoing Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters.

http://clannproject.org/clann-information-pack/ 

Vaccine trials: Unravelling the drug trials scandal

THE current commission of investigation into mother-and-baby homes is the second State inquiry that will attempt to examine the issue of vaccine trials carried out on children in the homes.
Further revelations in the Irish Examiner this week showed that the files of vaccine trial victims in Bessborough mother-and-baby home were altered in 2002 — just weeks after the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse sought discovery of records from the order running the home. The revelation will no doubt be examined as part of the latest inquiry.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/vaccine-trials-unravelling-the-drug-trials-scandal-430889.html 

Vaccine trial victim to lodge complaints over altered file

One of the victims of the Bessborough vaccine trial is to make a formal Garda complaint after it emerged files were altered in 2002.  On Tuesday, the Irish Examiner revealed the files of mothers and children used in the 1960/61 4-in-1 vaccine trial were altered in 2002 — just weeks after the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse sought discovery of records from the religious order running the home.
Mari Steed was born in Bessborough in 1960 and subsequently adopted in the US. Her natural mother’s file is one of those listed as having been changed. She plans to make a formal complaint to the gardaí and Data Protection Commissioner.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/vaccine-trial-victim-to-lodge-complaints-over-altered-file-430966.html?utm_source=news&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=newsbriefing 

The purpose of Clann is to help establish the truth of what happened to unmarried mothers and their children in 20th century Ireland.

The purpose of Clann is to help establish the truth of what happened to unmarried mothers and their children in 20th century Ireland.
Clann: Ireland’s Unmarried Mothers and their Children: Gathering the Data (‘Clann’) is a joint initiative by Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA) and JFM Research (JFMR). The project is being delivered in association with global law firm, Hogan Lovells.
Clann will assist those who wish to give evidence to Ireland’s Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters by arranging free legal assistance for individuals to make full written statements.

Adopted siblings travel to Ireland to sadly discover their mothers have passed away

An adopted brother and sister who were born in Ireland to different parents but grew up together in the United States have made some shocking discoveries about their pasts.

Patrick and Roxanne Farrington grew up together in a happy home in Billings, MT, but they always knew they were adopted. During a special episode of TV3’s "Adoption Stories," the pair travel to Ireland to find out more about their family histories.

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/adopted-siblings-travel-to-ireland-to-sadly-discover-their-mothers-have-passed-away 

Bessborough: We have right to know the truth

Adoption campaigners have called for an audit of all records in the hands of the State but there has been no willingness at official level to comply, says Conall Ó Fátharta.
A DOCUMENT showing that the religious order that operated Bessborough Mother and Baby Home altered records is just one of thousands of records the Commission of Investigation will have to examine in order to get to the bottom of how these institutions operated. Rumours that records were altered in mother and baby homes have been rife in adoption circles for years. These latest revelations raise more questions about the vast number of records now in State hands.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/bessborough-we-have-right-to-know-the-truth-430564.html 

Mother and baby home group backs call for forced adoptions inquiry

A call for a commission of inquiry into forced adoptions has been strongly supported by the Coalition of Mother And Baby Home Survivors (CMABS).

The call was made in a letter to Taoiseach Enda Kenny by former assistant national director of child and family services with the Health Service Executive, Phil Garland. He was also director of child protection in the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin from 2003 to 2009.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/mother-and-baby-home-group-backs-call-for-forced-adoptions-inquiry-1.2867730 

Emotional damage from trauma of childhood sexual abuse can last a lifetime

Miykhaela reaches back in her memory to the summer day when it all began. Her older brother had taken her into the bush on their northern Ontario reserve to join a few of their cousins, young teenaged boys like her sibling who had all been attending residential school together for several years. They gang-raped her. She was five or six years old.
As a mother years later, Miykhaela had to confront the ugly reality of familial sex abuse once again -- but this time it was her daughter, who one day confessed that her teenaged half-brother had raped her a couple of years earlier. She was 10 or 11 years old.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/emotional-damage-from-trauma-of-childhood-sexual-abuse-can-last-a-lifetime-1.3159307 

Kenny warned of Garda complaint if he delays adoption inquiry

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been warned that unless he establishes a commission of inquiry into forced adoptions by the end of this month, the matter will be reported to the Garda.

In a letter to the Taoiseach last week, the former assistant national director of child and family services with the Health Service Executive, Phil Garland, said that in October 2012 he notified statutory authorities and the then inquiry into Magdalene laundries about “the high rate of infant death in mother-and-baby homes and the possibility of forced adoption of children from within the State”.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/kenny-warned-of-garda-complaint-if-he-delays-adoption-inquiry-1.2866508 

NY--Victims blast nuns in abuse case

A group of nuns is refusing to admit that it ran a New York orphanage where a man says he was both sexually and physically abused as a child. We call on these nuns to stop ducking and dodging and start helping this victim. If they continue to stonewall, we call on Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput and New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan to insist that they step up, “come clean” and help this struggling survivor.

http://www.snapnetwork.org/ny_victims_blast_nuns_in_abuse_case 

Over enthusiastic NCPA and police charge nun sheltering orphans and the destitute

The recent incident where the “Prem Nivasa” at Rawathawatta, Moratuwa was raided by the National Child Protection Authority(NCPA) and Police has shocked many.
This home administered and looked after by the Catholic Church, with the assistance of the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity founded by Mother Theresa has been a haven of hope and refuge to many. The nun in charge of the Reverend Sister Mary Eliza was taken into custody and subsequently released on bail.

http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/3145

1940s Daughters of Charity Orphanage, Children's Home, Nuns, UK

From the Kinolibrary archive film collections. To order the clip clean and high res visit http://www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref KLR343.
Colour home movie footage from the 1940s showing the Daughters of Charity Orphanage, based in the UK, in operation with its sisters, staff and children.

Pope Francis offers “day of prayer” for victims sexually abused by his priests and nuns.

The Catholic Church has confirmed it plans to hold a worldwide day of prayer for victims of sexual abuse, as it continues to make efforts to protect vulnerable children
 Pope Francis announced the proposal following a meeting of the panel he set up to tackle child abuse within the Church and help survivors of past attacks. The Church will also establish an educational website with information and

https://occupythevatican.com/2016/09/20/pope-francis-offers-day-of-prayer-for-victims-sexually-abused-by-his-priests-and-nuns/ 

Will Mother and Baby Homes Commission advertise to the hidden Irish diaspora?

Stolen babies... 2,200 Irish infants were adopted by American families between late 1940s and early 1970s... Ann

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Earlier this year, I wrote for The Irish Times about the passing of a Magdalene survivor who lived here in the United States. She suffered ill health in her final years. Friends had lobbied on her behalf for health care entitlements offered through the State’s Magdalene restorative justice scheme. Unfortunately, those benefits never materialised.

But, in her last months she appreciated the help received from a social worker affiliated with an Irish immigration centre in the mid-west. I had reached out to Boston’s Consul General, who in turn contacted her colleague in Chicago, who in turn reached out to that city’s Irish Immigrant Support group, who made the social worker available, despite the fact that the she lived out of state. 

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/will-mother-and-baby-homes-commission-advertise-to-the-hidden-irish-diaspora-1.2859793 

Journalists Tout Dissident Nuns and Rehash Decades-Old Scandals To Bash Catholic Church Again

Since when have journalists been so concerned about internal doctrinal matters in the Catholic Church? Why are journalists suddenly fretting about the status of nuns in America?
It has been no secret that many Catholic women religious (nuns) in recent years have been in open dissent of a number of gender-related components of Church teaching, such those regarding the all-male priesthood, celibacy requirements, and, in some cases, abortion.

http://www.themediareport.com/2012/04/24/journalists-use-dissident-nuns-and-abuse/ 

The Horror of Native American Boarding Schools

This article is dedicated to Kavika who has taught me so much about Native American culture. I hope I do the subject justice.
 In the 1870's, The United States was still at war with the Native Americans who occupied the land before Europeans ever touched shore. In an attempt to solve the 'Indian problem', the United States government helped fund religious organizations who then opened religious boarding schools. These schools would heap horror upon the Native American children sent there right up till the 1980's.

http://grisham.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/05/10582624-the-horror-of-native-american-boarding-schools 

Abuse survivor Gordon Hill calls for Catholic Church to properly compensate victims, not offer apologies

A witness who gave harrowing evidence at the child sex abuse royal commission has called for the Government to enforce a redress scheme that would ensure the Catholic Church pay compensation to victims of past crimes.

Despite the mounting evidence of the horrific legacy of clergy abuse across western Victoria, many survivors have yet to receive any compensation for the harm they endured as children and its lifelong effects.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-10/abuse-survivor-calls-for-financial-compensation-from-church/7019284 

Former Ballarat orphans call for elderly abuse victims to be prioritised in redress

A former Ballarat orphan has called for elderly victims of childhood abuse to be prioritised in the roll-out of the federal government’s national redress scheme.
Ex-resident of Nazareth House Girls' Home Gabrielle Short said the physical, sexual and psychological abuse which had occurred in the orphanage had destroyed lives with many now dead, homeless or living in poverty.

http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/4284328/fight-for-justice-goes-on/?cs=62 

Record of abuse (female witnesses)

This chapter summarises the nature and extent of abuse reported to the Committee by 378 female witnesses in relation to Schools in Ireland that admitted girls. The 378 witnesses made 389 reports regarding four types of abuse specified by the Acts. They are physical and sexual abuse, neglect and emotional abuse. Not all Schools were reported for each of the four types of abuse.

The report of abuse by a witness may either refer to a single episode or multiple experiences of being abused in a School. In most instances reports of abuse refer to more than one episode of abuse and more than one type of abuse. One hundred and twenty three (123) witness reports (32%) were of all four types of abuse. Eleven (11) witnesses reported abuse in more than one School.

http://www.childabusecommission.ie/rpt/pdfs/CICA-VOL3-09.pdf 

A Priest, a Nun and Their Children

Bill and Mary Manseau's marriage has brought them into a decades-long confrontation with the church they love.  From a young age, both were devout Roman Catholics.

As a kid, Bill Manseau said he "used to play Mass … as many Catholic kids do." He would recruit his younger siblings to be altar servers and use Necco wafers for communion. At age 19, he entered the seminary.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2853855 

allegations of child sexual and physical abuse by one priest, seven nuns, and five laymen, between the 1930s and 1970s.

St. Thomas-St. Vincent Orphanage was an orphanage located in Anchorage, Kentucky, best known for allegations of child sexual and physical abuse by one priest, seven nuns, and five laymen, between the 1930s and 1970s. It opened with the merger of St. Thomas Orphanage and St. Vincent Orphanage in 1955 and closed in 1983 as a result of rising costs and increased government services for orphans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Thomas-St._Vincent_Orphanage 

Brenda’s Story Abuse at Goodwood Orphanage, Adelaide, South Australia 1950s

[The name of the Complainant has been changed in order to comply with the provisions of the Evidence Act SA] January 1949 to March 1951
I was shipped from England on the S S Ormonde with a group of 28 British ‘orphan’ girls, arriving on January 19 1949, at Goodwood Orphanage. I was 15yrs old. We were told that we would have a better life and we would be cared for in a loving and understanding way with regard to our well-being in a strange country. Nothing could have been further from the truth.
On the day we arrived we were lined up and the considerable amount of money collected by the crew of the S S Ormonde and given to us was taken from us. We never saw that money again.

http://netk.net.au/AbuseCases/GoodwoodBrenda.asp

Hollow Water

This documentary profiles the tiny Ojibway community of Hollow Water on the shores of Lake Winnipeg as they deal with an epidemic of sexual abuse in their midst. The offenders have left a legacy of denial and pain, addiction and suicide. The Manitoba justice system was unsuccessful in ending the cycle of abuse, so the community of Hollow Water took matters into their own hands. The offenders were brought home to face justice in a community healing and sentencing circle. Based on traditional practices, this unique model of justice reunites families and heals both victims and offenders. The film is a powerful tribute to one community's ability to heal and create change.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/hollow_water/ 

Report: Sex abuse at Island Catholic orphanage 70 years ago; pain endures

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- "Don" says he was abused 70 years ago by an employee at St. Michael's Home for Children, a Catholic orphanage that was in Greenridge, the Daily News reported.
St. Michael's Home for Children closed in 1978.
Don, who asked that his last name not be used, said that he began getting sexually abused his last two years at the orphanage by a layman, not a member of the clergy.

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/11/staten_islander_sexually_abuse.html 

IPC offers its help in Magdalene Laundries restitution processes

The Irish Pastoral Centre, located at St. Brendan Parish in Dorchester, is offering its services in connection with the Irish government’s reconciliation process in the matter of the Magdalene Laundries scandal.
The laundries - often described as “prisons” by the women who worked in them - were established in the 18th century for Ireland’s “fallen” women and remained in operation until 1996, when the last laundry closed. An estimated 30,000 women and girls are thought to have been institutionalized for a myriad of reasons, from “being bold” to having a child out of wedlock. They were forced to work long hours in poor conditions for no pay.

http://www.bostonirish.com/around-town/ipc-offers-its-help-magdalene-laundries-restitution-processes-0 

Girl, 12, was hidden in a tunnel when inspectors called

Maureen Sullivan is the youngest known survivor admitted to one of the Magdalene Laundries.  She was 12 when taken from her school in Co Carlow and put in the Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry in New Ross, Co Wexford, because her father died and mother remarried.
Ms Sullivan said she was told the place would further her education, but she never saw her schoolbooks again.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/girl-12-was-hidden-in-a-tunnel-when-inspectors-called-221783.html 

Midwife’s memoir reveals the horror of Bessborough

Women who gave birth at the notorious Bessborough mother-and-baby home in Cork were not allowed pain relief during labour or stitches after birth, and when they developed abscesses from breast-feeding they were denied penicillin.
One nun who ran the labour ward in 1951 also forbid any “moaning or screaming” during childbirth. Girls in poverty, who could not afford to make donations to the Sacred Heart order, had to spend another three years after their babies were born cleaning and working on the lands around the Cork city home to ‘make amends’ for their pregnancy. 

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/midwifes-memoir-reveals-the-horror-of-bessborough-271158.html

Orphans recall vicious, sadistic abuse

Commission hears how children’s reports of cruelty by priests and nuns were covered up for decades.

Another city, another institution and more harrowing tales of ruined lives. And, as the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse held a hearing in Queensland this week, another scandalous story of cruelty, cover-up and neglect.

A dozen former residents of St Joseph's Neerkol Orphanage, in Rockhampton, told of the "vicious and sadistic" abuse meted out by priests and nuns at the Catholic Church home between 1940 and 1975.

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11434614 

Women abuse, too

I was in an airport last week and struck up a conversation with the woman sitting next to me. After we discussed what we each did for a living, she pursed her lips and looked at me seriously. Then, she said, “What really disgusts me is that now women are becoming sex abusers.”
She was probably referring to stories like this, and this, and this.

http://theworthyadversary.com/2449-women-abuse-too 

Child sex abuse inquiry: Indigenous children treated badly at Neerkol Orphanage

An Indigenous woman, Diane Carpenter, has told the royal commission into child sexual abuse she was sexually abused by Father Michael Hayes while she lived at St Joseph's Orphanage Neerkol in the 1950s and 60s. Mrs Carpenter gave evidence all the children were treated badly by the nuns who ran the orphanage but the Aboriginal children had a particularly hard time.
BRENDAN TREMBATH: A warning: the following story contains disturbing details. An Indigenous woman has told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse that she was regularly assaulted at St Joseph's orphanage Neerkol near Rockhampton in the 1950s and 60s. Diane Carpenter says she was sexually abused by a priest, and the nuns in charge of the orphanage

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-15/child-sex-abuse-inquiry-indigenous-children/6394850

Nun warns against ‘hidden’ sexual abuse

MANILA, Nov. 29, 2014 — Many sexual abuse victims choose to suffer in silence and keep their experiences secret because sometimes, it involves an immediate family member.
According to Sr. Adel Abamo (SDS), Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children (SPCC) executive director, many abused women and children are forced to keep silent because they lack support from family members, in some cases, mothers of the victims themselves.

http://www.cbcpnews.com/cbcpnews/?p=46565 

Child abuse inquiry: former MP 'sensationalised' abuse allegations at Neerkol orphanage near Rockhampton, Sister Berneice Loch says

A senior nun has criticised a former Queensland MP for "sensationalising" allegations of abuse at the Neerkol orphanage near Rockhampton in State Parliament during the 1990s.

Sister Berneice Loch has testified today at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in the central Queensland city.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-21/former-mp-'sensationalised'-orphanage-abuse-allegations-nun-says/6409586 

FILM; An Abuse Scandal With Nuns As Villains

WHEN the Scottish actor and director Peter Mullan was growing up in a working-class Roman Catholic family, goodness was embodied in the clergy. It was the clergy of his pious mother, who contended with eight children and an alcoholic husband. It was the clergy of the Hollywood films the Mullan children watched on television: ''Boys Town'' with Spencer Tracy, ''Angels With Dirty Faces'' with Pat O'Brien, ''Going My Way'' with Bing Crosby.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/movies/film-an-abuse-scandal-with-nuns-as-villains.html 

Tuam vigil to remember residents of mother and baby home

Galway Bay fm newsroom – Hundreds are expected to turn out for a special vigil in Tuam this evening to remember the residents of the Tuam mother and baby home.
The event is led by Corrandulla artist Sadie Cramer whose exhibition of memorabillia from the home will also open at Tuam Town Hall.  The vigil begins at the children’s graveyard at 7pm.

http://galwaybayfm.ie/tuam-vigil-to-remember-residents-of-mother-and-baby-home/ 

Catholic church apologises for role in 'forced adoptions' over 30-year period

I don't know why... all of the countries don't pull together... and get it all over and done with... don't they know that each time... bringing the stolen babies up... triggers off what happen to us stolen babies worldwide...
my god it hunts to read abuse this... every so often when it comes up... it makes me cry... as I see my mother holding me... and not letting me go... until I was taken away from her arms... the catholic church has a lot to answer to... for stealing us babies from our mothers arms...  Ann

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Head of church in England and Wales apologises in documentary about women who were pressured into handing over their babies in the 50s, 60s and 70s.  The head of the Catholic church in England and Wales has apologised for its part in the” hurt” caused to young unmarried women who say they were felt pressured into handing over their babies for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
Cardinal Vincent Nichols acknowledged the “the grief and pain caused by the giving up of a child through adoption”, adding: “Sadly for unmarried mothers, adoption was considered to be in the best interests of the mother and child because of the associated stigma and the lack of support for lone parents.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/03/catholic-church-apologises-for-role-in-forced-adoptions-over-30-year-period 

Catholic church apologises for role in 'forced adoptions' over 30-year period

The head of the Catholic church in England and Wales has apologised for its part in the” hurt” caused to young unmarried women who say they were felt pressured into handing over their babies for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
Cardinal Vincent Nichols acknowledged the “the grief and pain caused by the giving up of a child through adoption”, adding: “Sadly for unmarried mothers, adoption was considered to be in the best interests of the mother and child because of the associated stigma and the lack of support for lone parents.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/03/catholic-church-apologises-for-role-in-forced-adoptions-over-30-year-period

Vigil held in Tuam for residents of mother and baby home

Test excavation on possible burial site at Bon Secours institution enters final stage.  When PJ Haverty joined a candle-lit walk into Tuam, Co Galway on Wednesday night, he could only think of the distressed steps taken on the very same route by his late mother, Eileen.

“For 5½ years she was in and out of the town on foot to the mother and babies home, begging for me to be returned to her,” Mr Haverty said.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/vigil-held-in-tuam-for-residents-of-mother-and-baby-home-1.2852517