CATHOLIC CONCENTRATION CAMPS?

Slave labour.

Mary Norris was a teenage servant in Kerry in Ireland.

She took a forbidden night off.

As a punishment, she was sent to a Catholic institution, 'the Magdalene laundry', an 'asylum' in Cork.

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Girls in the Magdalene Asylums were sometimes sexually abused.

The Catholic Church ran 'Magdalese Asylums' in Europe and America.

These asylums were for women and girls in difficulty.

In the UK, a 1997 Channel 4 documentary Sex in a Cold Climate interviewed former inmates of 'Magdalene Asylums' in Ireland.

They testified to continued sexual, psychological and physical abuse.

The reports of sexual abuse in Ireland involved not just Catholic (Magdalene) institutions but also Protestant (Bethany) and State-run Irish Industrial schools.

A Magdalene Asylum, a bit like a Nazi concentration camp.

The Catholic church has reportedly been involved in the CIA's 'Monarch' brainwashing programme, which has involved the torture of lots of children.

"The following article ... provides ... insight into the religious ideology that initially allowed the practices that make up the Monarch Project to flourish...

"The continuing complicity of the Church in covering up child sex trafficking and other institutionalized forms of torture remains, for the most part, undocumented."

The Catholic Church ran 'Magdalese Asylums' in Europe and America.

Suppressed history of the Magdalene asylums: early template for Monarch programming - watchingthewatchers


The article is from The Guardian, 8 June 2011, and is by Mary Raftery:

Ireland' s Magdalene scandal t

"The nuns had been dabbling on the stock exchange.

"When a company they had invested in went bust, they decided to sell off a portion of their Dublin land holdings to cover the losses...

"The land contained a mass grave.

"It was full of 'penitents', the label attached to the thousands of women locked up in Ireland's Magdalene laundries...

"It emerged that there were 22 more bodies in the grave than the nuns had listed...

"Over one-third of the deaths had never been certified.

"The nuns did not even appear to know the names of several of the women...

"All had died in the service of the nuns, working long hours in their large commercial laundry for no pay, locked away by a patriarchal church and society...

"The United Nations Committee Against Torture (Uncat) ... criticised the Irish government for refusing to acknowledge the pain and abuse suffered by women incarcerated in the laundries, the last of which closed in 1996...

"Ireland locked up more of its citizens per capita than anywhere else in the world – not in prisons, but in psychiatric hospitals, Magdalene laundries and industrial schools. Anyone who did not fit within the cruelly narrow definition of good behaviour was in danger..."

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