General Chat

Thankyou Cornish Susie, I never force my opinions either and yes here i have been to many a funeral out of respect if i know the family but i dont kneel either.

Religion is a subject when discussed that nearly always ends up in an argument or offending someone so i choose not to get involved very often, safer that way.

Florence - I didn't watch the programme but jut wanted to say how I totally agree with your views on religion - just in case you get told off for saying it! I do go to a church funeral out of respect for the deceased but have often been asked why I neither sing nor bow my head or kneel - I just try to explain politely that I don't wish to participate in any way in a religious service but have had some quite condemnatory comments from people. I reckon I'm quite old enough now to have my own views which I never try to force down other people's throats.

We had Catholic family friends. The 2 sons went to a Catholic primary school even though the primary school I attended with my sister was slightly nearer. The boys pleaded with their parents to let them go to our school. They stayed at the Catholic school.

The eldest boy told us that they were treated as evil beings who had to have good forced into them by the nuns by discipline and cruelty.

And why do the fathers get away with it, it is always the mother that is punished.

Well that was an emotional watch tonight.

I have to say, everytime, i hear a story about nuns that ran a childrens home and the children were abused, it makes me so angry that the nuns are never brought to account.

Call themselves christians?? Nothing but evil witches in disguise in my opinion.
There was another case i remember, The Nuns of Nazareth House, similar thing and many others.

Everytime, there has been some kind of incident to do with the Catholic Church, its always swept under the carpet isnt it? So how is this allowed to carry on happening again & again?

Personally, i have no time for religion. I do not go to church. My thoughts are, you join to be brainwashed. The nuns are taught we are all sinners. They have no compassion towards anyone who doesnt believe.

These poor women who fell pregnant outside of marriage were treated so despicably by the very ones who should have shown more compassion than anyone else in society as they were "sisters of god." And those poor children, one cant imagine the hell they went through.
May they all rest in peace. <3 <3

I think it will be a difficult watch.

TONIGHT
ITV at 10.20pm

Searching for the truth about what happened to the children born at a mother and baby home in County Galway before it closed in 1961.

In 1970s two boys discovered a mass grave and later death records were found for many hundreds of children.