Religious orders’ shame on compensation
My heart goes out to those women who heard that news yesterday because it is tantamount to being victimised and abused all over again.
Why is that? Because it is about power and control over these women’s lives — just like the orders had over their past lives in those laundries, now they are scoffing at the victims and saying, “We continue to have power and control over your present and future lives”. And they’re even going further — because they’re saying it’ll be your sons and daughters and brothers and sisters who, as taxpayers, can pay for our sins of inhumanity, cruelty and brutality. If the religious orders claim they can’t pay, (which is just literally unbelievable!) then let’s ask their ‘National Mother Church’. Let’s ask the bishops, archbishops and cardinal who were so exercised in the past number of weeks about the right to life of the unborn.
Let them give us their reaction to this pronouncement by the religious orders. It is so easy to express concern for and to defend the unborn but it is a different story to demonstrate genuine support for the living, when there is an actual financial cost to their organisation.
I’d also welcome a public reaction from Fr Sean Healy of CORI/Social Justice Ireland. He recently issued a scathing attack on the Government saying that the “Government continues to protect the rich at the expense of the rest of us while failing to address issues such as unemployment and emigration”. Well Fr Sean, will you defend the religious orders as they impose reduced health and social welfare services on the poor and vulnerable by letting the taxpayer pay the compensation?
I earnestly call on ordinary people to not let this abuse happen again to these women; and to make their disapproval known to these religious orders and the priests of every parish in this country.
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