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EvaEverywhere ago

I have to watch this and note the connections to my research over the past few years but... you know... it's kind of depressing and triggering as a token gift baby appropriated and given to other parents by the Catholic Church. I tell you when the Church is fully exposed so that nobody would think of joining it or indoctrinating their child into it, I will be happy. I did not baptize my daughter, I told her about religions growing up and said that she can join whichever one she wants. But if she does, she'll have to go through the longer study path of converting adults, so she can know what she is getting into :) It's been great to discuss with her how to be a good person outside of just following the usual religious rules.

BTW, my adoptive mother was a nun and I know for a fact that nunneries (where girls are sent to as teenagers) are the seat of much abuse and it's a HUGE BIG SECRET that the church is trying to keep quiet.

think- ago

and I know for a fact that nunneries (where girls are sent to as teenagers) are the seat of much abuse and it's a HUGE BIG SECRET that the church is trying to keep quiet

Agree. Thanks for pointing this out. There was a big scandal already in 19th century Rome, when it turned out that elder nuns in a nunnery sexually abused the younger ones (together with a high-ranking male member of the Vatican).

MolochHunter ago

theres a nunnery in Tuam, Scotland where they found 800 skeletons of children and babies only a few years back

many appear to have died of natural causes though, neglect was a factor, unclear if there's a sexual abuse connection to it

think- ago

There was a local woman who researched this. She's a hero. She spend tons of money to get access to old documents. Many former children who lived at that home came forward, but there haven't been any sexual abuse allegations. The children seem to have died of deseases, and, as you said, of neglect, which is bad enough, of course. They just threw them away in a pit when they had died.

MolochHunter ago

yer. There was a similar mass grave in a nunnery in Ireland, though, about 300 bodies i think, and they were sexually abused according to survivors

think- ago

Do you remember the name of that nunnery?

Throwing away bodies seems to have been a common habit in Irish nunneries, it seems. :-/

think- ago

Thank you! Will read it!