How Not To Do Your Dirty Washing
Of all the terrible stories today in the news, the abuse that went on in Ireland in the Magdalene Laundry system is one of the worst. It’s here in the Guardian.
We rightly condemn the systematic abuse of women by such as the Taliban , but why was this system allowed to flourish within my lifetime in Ireland?
But then the Roman Catholic church is not very sympathetic to the things that are taken for grated in civilised countries like contraception, gay rights, divorce and necessary abortion.
I suppose it won’t get any better, as the new Pope will probably be another decrepit individual with thoughts rooted firmly in the Dark Ages.
The Anonymous Widower 
These Laundries were also in Australia & other Commonwealth Countries . . .
Run by the same Order . . . the New Royal Commission set up in Oz . . . may disclose more, later in 2013 . . .
Comment by Steam Lover | February 16, 2013 |
I do think sometimes that my mother’s anti-Catholism was very right. But then she was of Huguenot decent, so she had reasons.
Comment by AnonW | February 16, 2013 |
I have friends of Huguenot decent, who came to Oz as Cobblers, and set up some of the big Shoe Businesses in Smith St Collingwood Victoria . . . they still have a large community of Cobblers {it is funny when very successful business people, still call themselves cobblers . . . albeit that their shoes now are made in China].
Comment by Steam Lover | February 16, 2013 |