Irish Archdiocese Official Reacts to 800 Children’s Skeletons ...

By Terry Firma
Friendly Atheist
June 6, 2014

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/06/06/irish-archdiocese-official-reacts-to-800-childrens-skeletons-in-a-sewage-tank-we-cant-judge-the-past/

I just learned that in Ireland, Father Fintan Monaghan, a Catholic Church official in whose archdiocese the skeletal remains of almost 800 children were found in a septic tank, weighed in with an opinion on the matter.

The bones, if you’ll recall, are those of babies who were born to unwed mothers, and who died under the awful neglect of Bon Secours nuns between 1925 and 1961. The child mortality rate in Irish Catholic institutions for “fallen women” was reportedly as high as fifty percent.

Regarding the remains of the 800 children found in that sewage tank, Monaghan told a TV crew:

“I suppose we can’t really judge the past from our point of view, from our lens. All we can do is mark it appropriately and make sure there is a suitable place here where people can come and remember the babies that died.”

Got that? We can’t judge the past. Pray tell, father — just how recently should acts of such crassness and cruelty have taken place so that we are allowed, in your divinely-inspired opinion, to judge the perpetrators?