I Hope People Show Their Disgust at Church’s Crimes against Humanity

By Amanda Brunker
Sunday World
June 12, 2014

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/columnists/amanda-brunker/i-hope-people-show-their-utter-disgust-at-church-s-crimes-against-huma

Seven-hundred-and-ninety-six babies and infants dumped in a septic tank.

Could the Catholic Church make it any more difficult for people to keep faith?

The Government has done what it does best: set up a complex inter-departmental committee to investigate this.

The home closed 53 years ago, so what’s another few years to wait for answers, eh?

The Church has ordered the nuns who ran the home where the mass grave was found to co-operate with all enquires. So they’ve hired a PR company with a fancy name to make statements.

Our own Fr Brian D’Arcy described the septic tank tomb of skeletal bones as akin “to a horror story from Nazi Germany in WWII”.

As usual, he is the only member of the clergy to call it like it is. Because we can now see the network of mother-and-baby homes run under the cloak of Catholic morality for what they were: Ireland’s concentration camps.

A whole section of society – pregnant, unmarried women and their children – was segregated from the population so as not to infect the pure gene pool of Holy Catholic Ireland.

They were horded into disease-infested camps where the death rates were multiples of the national average, made to work as slave labour, used in medical experiments, separated from each other, and ultimately discarded in mass unmarked graves.

Some of the most harrowing scenes of inhumanity witnessed on movie screens in recent years depict children being ripped from mothers during the evils of slavery in America and the Nazi holocaust.

The same thing happened daily in Ireland for 50 years with the blessing of the Church and State and the blind eye of a nation terrorised by religion.

What is also difficult to believe is that this death camp was first discovered back in 1975. That’s 39 years that the State denied these dead babies a proper burial and 39 years that the Sisters of Bon Secours continued to cover up the atrocities.

People often just switch off to these sorts of stories and these crimes against humanity wear us all down. What is needed now is for all of us to show a united front in our disgust or this will simply slip from our consciousness again.

I’m just left wondering what Pope Francis will say – will he even acknowledge the gruesome findings?

He has been invited to visit Ireland by Taoiseach Enda Kenny, who in the past, has shown the courage to stand up to the Vatican.

He should do so again. And insist any visit comes attached with an itinerary that includes a stop by his Holiness to pray for forgiveness at the unmarked graves of 796 babies buried in a septic tank in Tuam.