Not everyone in Ireland has fond feelings for the Catholic Church. Abusive priests who raped altar boys, nuns who beat unwed mothers and other horrors are part of the church’s legacy. Abortion is atrocious but so is the behavior of Ireland’s priests and nuns.
I mentioned that in my article rexthecat, I believe the way the Catholic church in Ireland denied Christ, has set the stage for this unfortunately....
Be careful what you wish for. Abusive priests will be replaced by abusive bureaucrats. The Emerald Island will probably become majority Muslim if not a Socialist nightmare in 30-50 years.
There is more sexual abuse in families, in schools and in protestant and evangelical churches than in the Catholic Church. In fact, someone posted a couple of thread yesterday about this happening in Baptist churches.
Fox News Report
In fundamentalist and evangelical churches -- sexual abuse
Other non-Catholic churches and sexual abuse
The results of sex abuse are incalculably bad.
The issue about "nuns beating unwed mothers" is a different matter altogether. It's a moral defamation, literally a fabrication by the Left-feminist media. In 2002, the wildly popular "Magdalene Laundries" movie came out, which claimed that these were horrific institutions brimming with violence and overseen by sadistic, pervy nuns. Yet the McAleese Report (published by the Irish govt legal investigation) found not a single incident of sexual abuse by a nun in a Magdalene laundry. Not one. Also, the vast majority of its interviewees said they were never physically punished in the laundries.
One of the very women whose "first-hand" account supposedly formed the basis of the movie, said It has shocked me to read in papers that we were beat and our heads shaved and that we were badly treated by the nuns... I was not touched by any nun and I never saw anyone touched."
The nuns were not only not abusers, they were the only people in Ireland at the time (1950's - 70's I think it was) trying to protect these girls from falling into beggary, prostitution and child abandonment.
Here's a good, accurate summary at MercatorNet
I highly recommend reading the McAleese report, which is online. A good article is this one by Brendan O'Neill, who is neither a Catholic nor a Catholic apologist but often exposes the lying propaganda found in the Irish and UK left-wing press. (Click the first article listed)
You don’t have to be a fan of the Catholic Church to accept that slaughtering babies in the womb is evil and wrong.