The Magdalene Laundries

UPDATE: Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse has released a damming report on abuse in reformatories (these 'schools' were also tax-supported), including Magdelene Laundries, run by the Catholic Church in Ireland. The report found abuse was edemic and spread throughout all of the institutions. Victims of the abuse have been lobbying for an investigation for many years, and although the report is detailed the names of abusers are missing from it.
To read the Inquiry's report follow this link:
http://www.childabusecommission.ie/rpt/

Magdalene Asylums were institutions for so-called "fallen" women, most of them operated by different orders of the Roman Catholic Church. In most asylums, the inmates were required to undertake hard physical labour such as laundry work. In Ireland, such asylums were known as Magdalene Laundries. It has been estimated that 30,000 women were admitted during the 150-year history of these institutions, often against their will. The last Magdalene Asylum in Ireland closed on September 25, 1996. (From Wikipedia)

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing' Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Please comment.

Music:
'The Magdalene Laundries' Joni Mitchell

Pictures: Most pictres were taken from Google Images, some were also taken from http://silverstealth.fotopic.net/c1509609.html.

For more information:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbPyvF9fnhg
http://www.adoptionireland.com/magdalene/gag_mag_postcard.html
http://www.magdalenelaundries.com/home.htm
http://www.netreach.net/~steed/magdalen.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalen_Asylum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magdalene_Sisters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUOhwsqFAEg&feature=channel_page

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Magdalene
• Laundries
• Mary
• Scandal
• Roman
• Catholic
• Church
• Nuns
• Abuse
• Coporal
• Punishment
• Inprisonment
• Ireland
• Justice

[CrashMarket]

This is the problem wirh any religion.You give these religious leaders too much power,you give them your money,your children,and then what do they give you for your coperation.....

[iniakpmarc28]

The Catholic Church in Ireland are like the Mafia. Religion really screws you up - sometimes for life.

[lindapittsburgh]

Yes all of you who were vitims and have suffered for no good reason must get justice..

no good reason for one human to treat others in such a sorrowful evil way.

[lindapittsburgh]

a disgrace and not an example of LOVE that the NUNS profess to practice.

[nonamehasaname]

This is a disgraced to the Irish and the Catholic for hurting young women. How dare Priests and nuns deny this happened. Fuck you catholics. No wonder people don't like your ass

[nonamehasaname]

Your welcome. I just watched the film and I was horrified. I thought Priests in America were bad.

[knightofjustic]

@Efrasios well year but that like saying guns never kill anyone the people with guns do. no religion has done anything wrong as it not a living person

[Efrasios]

@knightofjustic well actually Catholicism itself has never done anything wrong, only people who are Catholic have done bad things.

[knightofjustic]

@Efrasios ah but what about what both did to the other religions

[Efrasios]

@Efrasios love and serve*

[Efrasios]

@knightofjustic no no only broke away from Rome and murdered a few thousand Catholics lol I am being sarcastic, both Churches have made mistakes and done things wrong. The Roman Church could be blaimed for the crusades and the Protestant Church for burning Catholics in England and so on, we all make mistakes but at the end of the day its the same God and as long as we long and serve him thats what counts! God bless

[knightofjustic]

@IoannesBellator what about all those peiole who went forward and said what the church did fox news is biased not every news cast