Re: [Marxism] Judicial report into child abuse in institutions run by the Rom...

[Matt Kelly <a.marxist@xxxxxxxxx>]

Einde O'Callaghan wrote:

> It wasn't just little boy, it was also little girls. It wasn't just
> priests and brothers, it was also nuns - and lay helpers.
>
> And even more shocking than the sexual abuse is the persistent  
> physical
> and emotional abuse over decades and decades.
>
> And the state authorities had more than an inkling of what was going  
> on.


Unfortunately also, a collective amnesia by the population as a whole,  
who in the environs of these establishments knew exactly what was  
happening. Local farmers made good use of cheap labour provided by the  
Catholic Church.

George Anthony wrote:

> This exposes the role of the Catholic church
> Their so-called sublimation of the sex impulse as a fake
> And brings the whole idea of Catholicism crashing down
> Confirms it as the fag end of the Roman Empire


If only it were so!

MATT KELLY.
---
'In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she  
receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons  
her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.' Proclamation of  
Independence, 1916.

'The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on  
the brain of the living.' Karl Marx, 1852.

a.marxist@xxxxxxxxx


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