Church Orthodoxy Gone Awry

Irish authorities are under pressure to open up a septic tank at a former Catholic Church-run home in the town of Tuam for unwed mothers.  There are allegations that it contains the remains of the 796 infants and toddlers who died at the home from 1925 until its closure in 1961. According to a local historian, unmarried girls who got pregnant were seen as a threat to the moral order, and Irish society “wanted rid of them in the same way as the Germans wanted shot of the Jews.” The government is now investigating all such homes, because there could easily be “dozens more such pits where the seeds of sin were planted in the black Irish earth.”  One Irish commentator called it “our own little holocaust.”