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rpannier

(24,328 posts)
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 08:11 AM Mar 2017

Billl Donohue sinks even lower (and you thought that was impossible?)

Tuam babies horror is “fake news” says Bill Donohue of the Catholic League

He says not to believe the Commission of Investigation, don’t believe the Irish government, don’t even believe the Catholic Bishops, who have just reacted with “shock” and “shame” at the discovery of “significant human remains” at the former Mother and Baby Home at Tuam, County Galway.

Only Bill Donohue of the Catholic League in New York knows the truth – the same kind of "truth" Holocaust deniers might approve of.

He says it is all 'fake news,' nothing to see, no one to be held to account over 800 dead children in a Mother and Baby home in Tuam, County Galway.

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Unlike Donohue, the Bishop of Limerick, Brendan Leahy (who was representing Catholic Bishops at the Citizens Assembly in Dublin at the weekend) also believes the Commission’s report is true: “We’re all as shocked about this as everyone else…” he said. “We hang our heads in shame, but it brings us back to the fact that this is what we want, to promote a culture that really does care for life before and after birth.”

link:
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/catholic-league-calls-tuam-baby-reports-fake-news?utm_campaign=Best+of+IrishCentral+-+2017-03-07&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Mailjet

From Irish Central

What has been discovered in Tuam?

Last Friday, the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes announced that “significant” quantities of human remains had been found buried under the site of a former institution for unmarried mothers run by the Sisters of the Bon Secours in Tuam, Co Galway. The remains belonged to children aged from about 35 foetal weeks to two to three years. The news was greeted with widespread revulsion. Minister for Children Katherine Zappone said it was “very sad and disturbing”, while the commission itself said it was shocked by its own discovery. On Sunday, Archbishop of Tuam Dr Michael Neary said he was “horrified and saddened” by the news.

What is the Commission of Investigation in to Mother and Baby Homes?

The commission, chaired by retired Circuit Court judge Yvonne Murphy, was set up in February 2015 after a Galway-based historian, Catherine Corless, published research that revealed death certificates for 796 children at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home with no indication of their burial places. The commission has been tasked with investigating 14 Mother and Baby Homes, as well as four so-called “County Homes”, that operated across the State at different times between 1922 to 1998. Under its broad terms of reference, the commission is looking at living conditions, care arrangements, infant mortality, burial arrangements, vaccine trials, illegal adoption, social attitudes and women’s pathways in and out of these institutions

link
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/q-a-the-tuam-babies-and-children-who-died-1.2998787

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Billl Donohue sinks even lower (and you thought that was impossible?) (Original Post) rpannier Mar 2017 OP
I thought that hateful old prick died. He has got to be nearly 100. putitinD Mar 2017 #1
Evil is a preservative rpannier Mar 2017 #2
Alas, No ProfessorGAC Mar 2017 #3

rpannier

(24,328 posts)
2. Evil is a preservative
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 08:24 AM
Mar 2017

Fortunately when he goes the Catholic League goes with him as he seems to be their only member

ProfessorGAC

(64,877 posts)
3. Alas, No
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 08:25 AM
Mar 2017

He's only 9 years older than me, and i'm not 91. He's only 69. He's just such a cranky old man type that you thought he was a hundred.

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