Back before the 1960’s, there was morality, now there isn’t. Indeed this is an attempt to judge past social mores with today’s loose morality. I remember in high school in the early 60’s, I think one or two girls got pregnant, and it was considered a big scandal. The girls were removed from school, and the whispers and rumors echoed throughout the school corridors about the “bad” girl who got pregnant, and everyone tsked,tsked at the thought of it.
Nowadays, anything goes. Which way was better? This is a story without merit in Ireland, but it will be blown into gigantic proportions by the press and the Irish liberals. Talking about digging in a grave for a “sensational” story. This “story” makes me sick. Let the children’s bones rest in peace.
Their deaths were recorded, and their bodies were buried. Nothing nefarious occurred other than not having marked graves, but back in those days, pregnancy out of wedlock was a taboo, and kept hushed up, included their burial site. It would not be done the same today, but it’s 54 years past the 1960’s, and many more years later than before 1960, isn’t it. Geez, nothing worse than faux indignation.
Broad brush stroke on your part.
There was a time when there was 60-70% church attendance rate in the U.S., and at the same time there was slavery, men could legally beat and rape their wives, men and women could legally beat their children and leave black and blue marks and bruises on their bodies, Indians were run off their lands and given rancid meat to eat. Slaves could be legally raped and/or beaten.
Shall I go on?
The simple fact is that there has never been a Godly generation that was the majority of society. Sure, there were pckets of Godliness, but never a generation that was anything close to Jesus and the 12 disciples around him. And what was experienced during the Apostolic Age was very limited in its scope and how many were affected.
You had better get with the program. First this was a left vs. right attempt. Then it was an anti-Catholic attempt. Now it is an attempt to judge past social mores with today's loose morality. I can't keep up with all of the conspiracy theories!
If the Nuns had diligence in recording deaths (death records for the 796) why the heck couldn't they be just as diligent in burial records? The Bon Secours nuns were the ones who did not let their bones rest in peace.
If there was money to erect churches then, and money for wine for priests, friars, monasteries, nuns, money to beautify churches, etc, there was money to bury those children individually.
That is what this is about: money for me, but not for thee (decent individual burial for each child on consecrated ground). There was a cemnemtery right across ther road for these 796 children. It was burial in secret at all costs. Period.
Even Archbishop Neury says there is no proof that any of these children was buried on consecrated ground. period.