[scouter]

Please see the Associate Press' correction: Correction: Ireland-Children's Mass Graves story

Basically, they admit that they incorrectly reported:

1. that the children had not received Roman Catholic baptisms; documents show that many children at the orphanage were baptized.
2. that Catholic teaching at the time was to deny baptism and Christian burial to the children of unwed mothers.

They also stated that the researcher they quoted, who started the whole kerfluffel, "has since clarified that without excavation and forensic analysis it is impossible to know how many sets of remains the tank contains, if any."

Further, all the reporting I've seen to date completely ignores whether or not the nuns were overwhelmed by the situation they faced, the standards of care at that time, and so many other factors that would put the story in its proper context.

Very shoddy reporting and verification of the facts.

[dsc]

“Very shoddy reporting and verification of the facts.”

That is the conclusion a reasonable person would reach.

And yes, I mean that those reaching other conclusions lack reason.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

I know about this story.

I read it.

What is at issue in THIS thread is whether or not the children - in addition to having detah records provided for each of them (which is the case) - had burial records of each of them recorded by the nuns. According to Corless, death records were kept by the nuns, but not burial records.

Why would the nuns do the former and not the latter?

The Bon Secours nuns who ran St. Mary’s Home then provided the former to the Tuam registry office - but did not provide the latter -— according to Catherine Corless.

The researcher didn’t start the kerfluffle. Not providing burial records for where each of the 796 children was buried was the starting of the kerfluffel. Place the blame where it belongs.

The RCC wasn’t broke then. No one claims they were. Money could have been allocated for a proper individual burial for each of the 796 children.

Forbes’ covers whether or not the nuns were or were not overwhelmed by this. That may be a valid point, but it isn’t valid that those 796 children just simply couldn’t be given an individual burial.

Secondly, nothing would haveoverwhelmed the nuns providing a burial record - location of burial - as they could provide death records to the Tuam registry office.

Just keep a record of the place and location of burial (burial record) after you take the death record to the Tuam registry. DUH.