Ireland’s children minister has said that the Catholic Church must pay for the recovery of hundreds of children’s remains that were thrown in sewage systems decades ago at a nunnery.
“It is my strong conviction that given the role of the Church in this shameful chapter of recent Irish history it must play a practical role in addressing the hurt and damage,” Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone said in her remarks to Pope Francis, who visited the country over the weekend.
“I believe that the Church should contribute substantially to the cost of whatever option is decided by the government …. Nothing less will demonstrate remorse,” she added as the text of her request to Francis was released to the media on Monday.
As Crux Now explains, close to 800 babies and young children are believed to have been found in mass graves in an underground sewage structure from a home for unwed mothers and their children, which was run by an order of Catholic nuns in the 20th century.
DNA tests have shown that the remains of the children found at the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in…
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