The Catholic Church seems to be enjoying no media attention on this one.

Perhaps they are celebrating at being near the biggest property owner in the state and escaping paying any property tax?

Globally the have an IMMENSE property portfolio.
Compensation for the enslavement and cruelty in the Laundries they operated must be forthcoming.

With their €3.743 billion property portfolio in Ireland alone, surely Ratzinger could encourage a small sell-off to satisfy compensation claims for this chapter in the Church’s horrific history in Ireland, and maybe a little for the child victims of institutional sexual abuse. Might make him more welcome at the Pearly Gates after his forthcoming period of quiet contemplation in his silk sheeted four poster bed in the Vatican.

As attributed to “Jesus”, in Mark’s Gospel (albeit 70 years after his death, so who knows the motivation for writing it or what political purpose the Bible was to serve in the Church’s rise to power, extreme wealth and mind control)

“Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”

some one explain to me exactly why an apology has taken so long, and why there seems to be debate about it? first they apologise like adults who are truly sorry, then apply pressure to the RCC and its responsible bodies to apologise like they mean it rather then just being sorry they got caught.
When the RCC says everyone else was doing it and they didn’t know better the correct response is: rubbish, you are supposed to be enlightened and a moral guide, which is dictated by God. Don’t lie to defend your “truth”. Love thy neighbour my eye!

What will the state do with respect to the RCCs role in this whole debacle ? How will they be made to pay ?

If somebody has to be coerced and shamed into an apology is it really an apology? I apologise because of the pressure. There should have been an unequivocal apology. Enda Kenny is a disgrace and the tanaiste is no better.

The Irish Psychiatric Profession should also apologise to Magdalene victims.

The Psychiatric profession colluded with the Catholic Church in incarcerating thousands of innocent Irish Women and Men for ” unacceptable, deviant behaviour” – ie. being a Single Mother or being a Homosexual in the Fifties and Sixties. Many lives were ruined by these guys ordering Lobotomies, Freezing Insulin Baths and Electric Shock Treatments on many healthy people.

When will the media scrutinise the numerous abuses by Consultant Psychiatrists ? We know of several cases involving these so called pillars of the Community locking innocent people up in return for large cash payments . They remain above the Law and when they get a diagnosis wrong, the unfortunate patient has no opportunity for redress. They intimidate and bully. Have any of these arrogant elitists ever apologised for the sins committed in the name of their professional research ?

We now know, thanks to great work, by the late Mary Rafferty that these abuses were/are still happening recently in Waterford and other Institutions. Doctor Dennis Lane O’ Kelly has been named in the excellent RTE documentary, ‘Behind the Walls’. Yet those who knew about this and other abuses are still employed by the HSE. Do these experts on all aspects of human nature really expect us to believe that they knew nothing about the sexual abuse of vulnerable people being instigated by one of their colleagues, Dr. Lane O’ Kelly ?

Richest Church in the world is more likely a state Church with the resources including an army. Eg Church of England
People, Hospitals, schools, etc.are the substantial wealth of the Catholic Church why so much bitterness others are free to do the same

What is being implied is that nobody especially the Catholic Church should help people with difficult circumstances or risk being blamed for the pre-existing difficulties as well as any less than 4 star facilities.