Apparently a number of the bodies may have been children whose parents were under the impression that they had been adopted, or were being looked after (for a fee) while, in reality, their bodies were rotting in an old septic tank. It’s sickening.

What I think is also important is that we don’t know for sure how many women were kept in these places. The religious orders involved remain very secretive about them and refuse to release any records or other information.

In a similar vein as ‘Philomena,’ I highly recommend watching the movie ‘Oranges and Sunshine.’ A true story that sheds light on the Brits migration of over 130,000 poor children, stolen from their families and told they were dead. Then shipped to commonwealth countries, mostly Australia, for profit, where they…

“The church needs an overhaul for the 21st century.”

That’s more or less it. In many cases a pregnant single woman would be sent to a Magdalene home, and when she gave birth her child would be sent to a nearby orphanage. Both would remain wards of the church and perform unpaid labour in laundries and other manual jobs instead of receiving an education. They would not be…

Considering the world is seeing a surge in Islam not atheism I wouldn’t hold my breath. 

The stigma is first and foremost for being a woman. Then for being a woman without a man. These women were sent to prison - there is no other name for it - for the crime of being pregnant.

Actually, atheists are the largest minority group in America. Perhaps in a few more decades the Christian, Jewish and Islamic mythologies will become far less relevant.

This typical Catholic church stuff. Nothing shocking here. We got all kinds of mass graves in Canada from all those residential schools ran by the Catholic church.

The last of these homes closed in the 90's - that wasn’t long ago. And this is one is only the latest to be found to have the remains of babies and children buried on site. I saw a documentary about this a while ago (it was so horrible I couldn’t even finish it it). From what I remember, the children born to unwed…

But we have also learned that IQ is variable depending on life experiences. I was informed as a girl child that women can’t be geniuses because of the amount of -something- (insert woo of choice) required to be pregnant and raise children. Girls, even today, believe by the age of 5 that boys are smarter than girls.…

Christianity and Islam are too tightly woven into society for this to ever really happen but it’s a good goal.

No women looking for and enjoying sex is the true sin.

Shit like this is why I get pretty mad at people praising the “good pope”. Ain’t no such thing as a “good” pope. I’ve met plenty of good Catholics who were good people, but they’re good people despite it, not because of it. The church needs an overhaul for the 21st century. They only stopped doing stuff like this…

yesyesthisagain is a foreveralone MRA troll. just so you know.

It’s well past time all nations around the World start raising up to their claims about being “civilized” and treating religious entities - any of them, not only the Catholic Church - as any other instituition, without privileges or special treatment. Imagine any other instituition other than one related to the church…

No, sex is the real sin, because it makes you happy and it’s free.

They got rid of the collection? Dont they realize there is an insanely huge porn collecting community and some of this guys stuff might have been worth a fortune?

I dropped a harddrive on my foot once, so I can relate.

A friend of mine is a welder and she tried for YEARS to get a job and nobody would hire her. She went back to school and got several certificates for different types of welding because she figured she just wasn’t experienced enough. Come to find out that nobody would hire her because they were afraid of harassment…