De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

As a person of Irish heritage, I feel drawn to comment on this, or at least to point my readers to some useful facts about this horrible story.

It first broke in 2014 and I posted about it here, giving an eye witness account of the experience in the Bon Secours home. 
Now with the release of the results of the investigation into the contents of the grave, the media storm has been re-ignited in full force! What a great opportunity to beat the Church up!
Caroline Farrow has done a great deal of work looking to forensically discover the truth behind the stories, see here.
There is a lot of vicious hatred being poured out in the direction of the Catholic Church in Ireland at the moment as a result of this. No one seems particularly interested in the truth. Caroline says:
One of my points is that while institutional cruelty did exist actually this order doesn't seem to have a bad reputation, like some of the other orders and interestingly, up until this scandal broke there were no surv…

At our last Catenian meeting, our President, Tom Kennedy, read out a very moving letter received by a lady who works in the Legion of Mary office in Dublin from Fr Paul Churchill who is a Spiritual Director of the Legion of Mary. He wrote this letter about his father who was cared for by the sisters at Tuam who were so scurrilously attacked in the media earlier this year (Caroline Farrow has much more detail about this here). As always, bad news travels fast, and irrespective of how in error or how malicious a rumour is, you can be sure that, by the time the truth comes out, the world has moved on, and the initial attack will have done its damage. Still, I think it is well worth publicising this letter, which gives an honest and appropriate perspective from real experience of Tuam. It is also expressive of the very real pain caused to many by this story.


Dear Maria,My father was one of the children reared in the Bon Secours home in Tuam in the 1920s and 1930s, the one in the news rece…