ExaminerYesterday thousands of women, youth and babies were honored at the Glasnevin Cemetery – victims of nuns at the Irish Catholic Magdalene Laundries. An estimated 30,000 suffered psychological, sexual, emotional and physical abuse and death at the hands of Catholic Sisters of the Magdalene Order. There were even stories of the Catholic nuns killing newborn babies of the women incarcerated there. http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/23818
After 44 years survivors still awaited justice. The Vatican and Sisters of the Magdalene Order have yet to make an apology, or compensate victims. The scandal broke in the 1970’s and the last laundry closed in 1996. Finally in Feb 2013 and on behalf of the Irish government, Taoiseach Enda Kenny apologized for the hurt the women endured and made a yet-to-be-kept promise to make available “a process to help and support the women in their remaining years.”
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/magdalene-laundry-victims-never-for…
Why did the abuse go unchecked for 26 years after it was uncovered in the 1970’s?
As with the global Catholic Priest Abuse scandal, sisters of the Magdalene Order were likely in fear of releasing negative information about the Catholic Church and it’s leaders. They were subjected to a Vatican decree called Crimen Solicitationas. This law of the Roman Catholic church ordered every priest, bishop and nun to protect the reputation of the Catholic Church or face excommunication. Catholics believed excommunication meant they would live forever in “Hell.”
Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, Australia and the US were used to punish unmarried young women, many in their teens, for having premarital sex. Some were confined simply because their frightened puritanical families consider them too unruly.
The UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) reviewed the Magdalene Laundries case and summarized it as, “Unrelieved horror: sadistic nuns who punished young women with impunity, all in the name of Catholicism.”
In a letter the Irish UN representative Felice Gaer stated, “Specifically, the committee has received information from several sources highlighting that the McAleese Report (Ireland government review of Magdalene Laundries) despite its length and detail, did not conduct a fully independent investigation into allegations of arbitrary detention, forced labor or ill-treatment.”
http://www.thejournal.ie/mcaleese-report-into-magadalene-laundries-criti…
“Slave labor in Irish convents as terrible as prison: the victims of a stringently moralistic brand of Irish Catholicism” was the headline of the Sept. 28 2002 New York Times. The review was on Peter Mullan’s film about the Catholic Magdalene Laundries, “The Magdalene Sisters.”http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D00E3DE1638F93BA1575AC0A9649C8B63
The existence of these religious labor camps run by the Sisters of the Magdalene Order first came to light in the 1970’s with the discovery of unmarked graves of women who had lived there. It took 43 years, or until Feb. of last year before the Irish government made an apology. The Vatican had yet to respond.
There were no precise figures for the girls who worked in the eight Magdalene laundries in Australia run by the Good Shepherd Sisters. Victims of the Good Shepherd Sisters were also said to have suffered psychological, sexual, emotional and physical abuse and death at the hands of the Catholic nuns. The US Magdalene Society of Philadelphia existed 1800-1850, but there was no information available on possible abuse in the US order.
http://www.examiner.com/article/thousands-abused-died-at-hands-of-catholic-nuns-no-apology
This article (from the Zionist-owned “Examiner”), and probably the ceremony that honored the dead women too, is just part of the Jewish attack on Catholicism that’s been going on for 2000 years.
And I say it’s an attack on Catholicism rather than religion, or Christianity, because you’ll never hear a word in the press about Christian-Zionists doing anything wrong. They’re already “in the fold” as far as the Zionists are concerned, so there’s no reason to shatter their faith.
Catholics should understand how they’ve been attacked, and are being attacked rather then lose their faith. Understand the serpent rather than be bitten by him.
“Religion is the opiate of the masses. it brings madness and psychosis”.
Karl Marx, said that, right?
He was a Jew too. They’re always trying to destroy faith.
I happen to be an atheist, but I recognize the importance of faith, and I’m loathe to shatter it in those who have it.
I don’t consider myself an Atheist more an Agnostic because I just don’t know, there is not proof.
Everyone is given a measure of faith, but does faith give religion justification to kill, murder, rape and rob in the name of a god that may or may not exist? Religion is mans road to god, faith is walking the road trusting in where it will lead.
Something’s amiss at the Vatican.
I attempt to respect everyone’s religious or spiritual beliefs….I do so out of a desire to allow everyone their perspective…but I have no “faith” that any of them are correct (or incorrect)…so I do not feel a need to argue or even discuss the subject…unless someone thrusts it upon the conversation…(or myself)…
…and here is why….
Even though I am tolerant of other’s POV….none of them really knows anything…other than fairy-tales and stories passed down through thousands of generations of malleable humans looking for the answer themselves… and those crowds have been guided and shaped by sociopaths in our historic community….
But when it comes down to explaining “the context” of their religious beliefs… most people are left with some vague comment about… “faith”…or “God having a plan”…(?)….there has been no one in my lifetime or before that I know of..who can explain the context of our existence…perhaps they are better at understanding “how” the universe operates..etc, etc….but no one can explain what lay beyond our own universe….or our own existence…
…so, since no one can really answer that question…everyone can be right …and all can be wrong….because we’ll never know the answer..while we operate on this plane-of-existence…however…the one thing I do know…the sociopaths have used this thirst for information and understanding against us…and have used it to divide all of us into tribes, different societies.etc….
They love the power..and their ability to abuse us….so unless they live by the tenants of their “religious beliefs”…I tend to ignore them…
RJ O’Guillory
Author-
Webster Groves – The Life of an Insane Family
Exactly…