10 Dirty Secrets Of The Catholic Church

I put this on here again because i never want the world to forget... what us innocent children went through... bu the catholic church nuns and priest... the worst one was the stolen babies... dragging us out of our mother's arms... the as we were growing us... telling us that we were orphans... it still hurts... Ann

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Throughout its long history, the Catholic Church has been rocked by scandals ranging from the dissolution of the Knights Templar to Galileo’s trial to Mother Theresa’s questionable donors. Over the course of the 20th century, many more scandals have come to light—no matter how much the Church would like to keep them secret.

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2015/04/10-dirty-secrets-of-the-catholic-church/ 

House plan ignites 'fire of hell' inside Neerkol survivor

A STRIPPED little girl, standing before the convent screaming for nuns to help her still lives within one of Neerkol's victims.
This memory is one of many to haunt the now-adult woman, and is as raw today as in the years of ongoing sexual and physical abuse between 1961-9 at the horror orphanage. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, first stepped foot in Neerkol a 10-year-old girl alongside her six siblings, aged between three weeks old and 11.

https://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/house-plan-ignites-fire-of-hell-inside-neerkol-sur/3254495/ 

Calls for states to join redress child abuse scheme

Tens of thousands of people sexually abused as children will miss out on compensation under the federal government’s redress scheme unless all states join in, the Catholic Church warns.
Social Services Minister Christian Porter has called for the states, territories, churches and charities to “stump up” and opt into the Commonwealth scheme.

https://www.echo.net.au/2017/10/calls-states-join-redress-child-abuse-scheme/ 

Sexually Abused 400 Children Found Buried Under Catholic Church

The children were all residents of an orphanage run by Catholic nuns and were found buried in an unmarked mass grave in a section of St Mary’s Cemetery.
The orphanage looked after 11,600 children between 1864 and 1981. In 2003, former residents Frank Docherty and Jim Kane discovered a burial plot containing the bodies of a number of children who they say were sexually abused before being killed.

http://www.theaware.net/sexually-abused-400-children-found-buried-under-catholic-church/ 

Ministry for Vulnerable Children is changing its name, again

Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft says removing the word "vulnerable" from Ministry for Vulnerable Children Oranga Tamariki is a "good sign" from the new Government.
Minister for Children Tracey Martin announced the new name in a tweet, saying: "I have just been sworn in as the Minister for Children. Not Vulnerable but all children."

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/98349920/ministry-for-vulnerable-children-is-changing-its-name-again 

Canada seeks to compensate indigenous taken from families

TORONTO –  Colleen Cardinal often wondered why her parents turned bright red in the sun but she grew dark along with her sisters. The puzzle was solved when she was a young teen, and the woman she had thought of as her mother disclosed that she had been picked out of a catalog of native children available for adoption.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/30/canada-seeks-to-compensate-indigenous-taken-from-families.html 

Abused and told by the nuns that their culture was “evil”

In Canada, First Nations tribes were forced into a boarding school system run by Christian churches, in which abuse was rife. Here, three indigenous storytellers discuss how they are remaking their society.

Sometimes the story that you set out to tell is not the one that wants to be told. On a Friday morning in a house in Dublin, I sit down to speak with three indigenous storytellers from Canada. They are here for a conference called The Untold Stories of the Past 150 Years/Canada 150 at UCD, about Canadian history and identity.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/abused-and-told-by-the-nuns-that-their-culture-was-evil-1.3083477 

The care system is broken. Here’s what I suggest

Adopted at birth and raised by nuns, the artist-activist Louise Wallwein has spent a lifetime trying to find out who she is. Now, though, she has made a play, radio play and book about that process – and how she has let go of trying to find her own “origins story”.
Wallwein, 47, spent her childhood moving from care homes to foster parents; at nine she went back into the care of nuns after her adoptive family broke down; she was moved between 13 different children’s homes; then at almost 18 she came out as gay, left care, and became involved in activism and theatre, which, she says, have kept her grounded ever since.

https://inews.co.uk/essentials/lifestyle/people/i-foster-child-care-system-needs-change/ 

Indian Boarding Schools: One Woman's Tragic, Triumphant Story

Many of his descendants, including Lynn and her children, also attended boarding schools. This is Lynn’s story, in her own words:
We didn’t have a home. I was born in Rosebud, if you want to call that my home. My mother abandoned us at the Saint Francis Mission School in Mission, South Dakota, in the early 1960s. I was about 6. My sister Janice was about 14 months younger than me.

https://www.voanews.com/a/indian-boarding-schools-a-family-affair/4078971.html 

Nightmare at Neerkol: House plans for horror orphanage

LIVING in the infamous Neerkol Orphanage abandoned in Stanwell is not everyone's dream home. But one developer has been granted approval to convert two of the 132-year-old buildings into a private residence.
Rockhampton Regional Council today moved a motion of approval for the developer, TLE Coombs, to fit out the historical buildings with plumbing and electricity for the new resident to preserve the land.

https://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/nightmare-at-neerkol-house-plans-for-horror-orphan/3253353/ 

Time to acknowledge the other baby scoop

Many Canadians are unaware that in the immediate postwar decades, federal and provincial governments forced hundreds of thousands of “unwed mothers” to give up their babies by means of forced or coerced adoption.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2017/10/30/time-to-acknowledge-the-other-baby-scoop.html 

'Stain on my brain': David Owen to tell Royal Commission of life of abuse

David Owen was born after his 12-year-old mother was raped, was offered for adoption in a newspaper advertisement, and was physically, sexually and emotionally assaulted for years at an isolated orphanage run by the Catholic Sisters of Mercy.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/stain-on-my-brain-david-owen-to-tell-royal-commission-of-life-of-abuse-20150413-1mkg25.html