Refusal of religious orders to compensate Magdalenes ‘beggars belief’

[The Straight Story]

MAGDALENE SURVIVORS TOGETHER, one of the groups representing the women who worked in the Magdalene laundries, has strongly criticised the four religious orders who have refused to contribute to the redress scheme set up by the government.

The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, Religious Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge, the Sisters of Charity and Sisters of the Good Shepherd, who ran the laundries, will not pay into the scheme which is set to costs the State up to €58 million.

The Irish Times reports today that the congregations have said they are willing to work with the government in other areas such as providing records and offering care for woman who stayed with them.

Speaking to TheJournal.ie today, Steven O’Riordan of Magdalene Survivors Together said that the women are “flabbergasted to think that the religious orders are being allowed to get away with not contributing when they were the main perpetrators of the crime and the injustice”.

http://www.thejournal.ie/magdalenes-nuns-redress-995106-Jul2013/

[niyad]

1. nowhere in the article does it say WHY they refuse. and people wonder why there is such

contempt for religious groups???

this comment at the end was disturbing:


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Just a reminder that these orders are currently funding a massive hate campaign against sex workers. They hope new laws against sex workers renting property, using phones or internet will be brought in that will force sex workers out onto the streets, so they can force the sex workers to go into their ‘care’.

[xchrom]

2. du rec.