We can still lend our voice to survivors of institutions – it is not too late
There are those for whom, for many reasons, this will not be possible. Among them are the families torn apart by the Magdalene Laundries and the State’s industrial schools. There are some who talk as though the atrocities are part of our history but in reality the consequences are still very real.
Lives have been destroyed. Souls crushed. Babies deprived of their lives; both those who survived and those who died. Both mothers and babies were deprived of the rituals and rites of the religion that scorned them and condemned to a man-made hellfire both on earth and if we are to believe the rhetoric of that that Church, in the hereafter.
We may ask ourselves, what God would allow this to happen, when what we could ask is what human beings could perpetrate such crimes and not display remorse? What State could do this to its citizens and still command loyalty? What sort of Church could enrich itself on the suffering of the souls of babies and their mothers and still issue proclamations righteous to the same congregation? What citizens would turn their backs on their fellow human beings when they themselves could have come so close to that fate and have faced that same evil? Did the Earth spin just in time to let us step out of the path of such righteous torturers? There but for the grace of what God were those who suffered chosen and we were not? Throughout history, unspeakable crimes have been perpetrated on human beings by claiming that those who they tortured were “others” different from “us”. The reality is that it could have been us. We need to stand with those who suffered and lend our voices to our fellow citizens.
It won’t undo that terrible evil or lessen the consequences but could provide a voice in the dark to say ‘we are with you and we acknowledge your awful pain and we are thinking of you’.
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