She embodies everything I despise about the Catholic Church. I am a Christian but I certainly so not want to go back to the curtain twitching judgemental priest ridden hole we were, where newborns were thrown in the sea for fear of ostracisation and a young girl died giving birth alone in one of those tacky fake grottos also out of fear and shame. Don't start me on the laundries.
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- that woman - Gemma - is unspeakable
A couple of things. Firstly Gemma does not represent the Catholic Church. Her personality is more symptomatic of our modern age were men are emasculated and women are aggressive and have tongues like vipers. Her behaviour is certainly not conducive with being a traditionalist and she is point in fact, not one.
The traditional Catholic families that I know in Ireland are salt of the earth people. Some of the kindest and most selfless people you could ever meet.
Secondly your comments are a reminder of the rhetoric we grew up with under the useless boomer generation. A generation whose offspring have brought the world to the point it’s at now. Kidults addicted to porn and soma.
I remember a pal of mine visiting from New Zealand who was listening to some boomer relatives of mine going on about Christian brother schools and Magdalen laundries (all of whom had perfectly happy childhoods and childhoods that kids these days could only dream of) and he pointed out that his Dad had the exact same stories about school and how unmarried mothers were treated, except that he went to a secular school in a secular town in NZ which had no connection to the Catholic Church. As he pointed out, it wasn’t an Irish or Catholic problem, it was the way the entire world was. Do you think people were having the craic in the atheist Soviet Union Utopia?
As for the curtain twitchers. That’s very much a rural habit in Ireland that still exists. I have family in Mayo, and I can tell that that tradition is alive and well in the villages of Mayo. The Godless villages of Mayo.
In modern, Godless Ireland, tens of thousands of women go to government sanctioned buildings to murder their own children every year. Guilt free. What a lovely country we are. I’d like to go back to the so called ‘dark days’ when that was illegal and not socially acceptable.
