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In reply to the discussion: Magdalene laundries report to be published [View all]formercia
(18,479 posts)7. But, but, all the names sound so nice.....
"Three orders of Catholic nuns the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, the Religious Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd ran the Magdalene laundries."
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"What is it about institutions that do wrong and know it? They could have come clean"
FiveGoodMen
Feb 2013
#22
I'd never leard of the Magdalene Laundries until Joni Mitchell sang about them
OmahaBlueDog
Feb 2013
#9
I think it was based on stories told in a documentary about the laundries called
smokey nj
Feb 2013
#52
Dontchya love how all these 'impure' woman seem to have no 'impure' men around?
toby jo
Feb 2013
#13
Pedophiles will be Pedophiles -- Heard about the elite NY prep school Horace Mann's sex scandal?
whathehell
Feb 2013
#47
Who should pay, the Church or the Tax payer, for these were STATE organizations
happyslug
Feb 2013
#36
This is but one instance of a long history of religion being used to enslave humans.
Dawson Leery
Feb 2013
#53