The inversion of the teachings of the church.. Took our ancestral knowledge, our way of living and oppressed and brutalised us..Little kindness from them.. Cruel judgement from cruel people hiding behind a habit 🙏

Never before has one organisation spread so much pain and grief for so many centuries.

I am someone who was placed with the Convent of the Good Shepherd for 8 months at the age of 15yrs old. I am now 66yrs old but those experiences still live with me.

Wat een schorem, wat een monsters. Mijn kind kwam door een verkrachting. Hij moest ook naar een kindertehuis. Maar erg goed daar Elke dag kwam ik daar en door mijn wisseldiensten op verschillende tijden. Gelukkig maar twee jaar en daarna een topper als vader gekregen en een heerlijke liefdevolle man nu 🥰❤️🥰

When pregnant love and support are needed. These poor women and their children. God bless them.

How many of these young women were attacked and then shamed into this nightmare? Yet again the men getting away with it. Total double standards.

The treatment of women breaks my heart. How many of these women have these children with no consent of their own, if you know what I mean. And yet the men continue on with their favored stature of honorable men and the women shamed. It’s disgraceful. And these nuns should be named even if they are no longer alive.

Thank-you to Catherine Corless for your good work. Deep condolences to everyone who was bereaved of their child or sibling, or deprived of their mother.

My Daughter 21 weeks gave birth to Twin Boys, they were still born. Even though they were in heaven, I had them baptized. They were given names Aiden and Braiden, had a service. God Bless! Now 12 years later she has 2 Daughters 8 and 3yr.old She is high risk! I Thank God every day for them!❤

Imagine taking the time to write a report stating that a child in your orphanage was both emaciated AND had a voracious appetite instead of just feeding the child more! Neglect. Cruel neglect.

I grew up with nuns n I saw so many things. When I left the church I confronted a priest. Made very clear to them that they were the worst sinners. The nuns were very cruel. I have never believed in the Catholic Church.

That letter from The Communications Clinic chair of the Sisters of Bon Secours organization really tells of the current attitude of that organization. What a snarky gas-lit response. I am in my 60s. I just lost my mama in January. She knew me my whole life, and I had known her my whole life-up to that sad day. I cannot imagine not knowing my mama for all that time. This is so sad. The consequences of mother-child separation are far reaching. Keep fighting.

Nous sommes Belges, mes parents sont nés en 1914 et 1916 et moi en 1947. Je n'ai jamais entendu cette expression "enfant de la honte" on disait "enfant de l'amour". Habitant la campagne, nous connaissions ces enfants qui étaient automatiquement adopté par l'homme qui épousait la mère et sans problèmes, il y avait aussi des enfants qui n'étaient pas du mari et cela ne choquait non plus personne, on disait "un enfant est à celui qui l'élève". Les religions ont toujours créé des problèmes là où il n'y en avait pas.

Churches are about worship, mine is a personal relationship in which I try to follow him. Blessings to all.

Sad the men that got those poor girls pregnant were never punished

After being a Catholic all my life, I finally left and changed to just being a regular christian for the sake of the family I am creating. Best decision I've ever made

The children mattered. They did nothing wrong. ❤

I lived in a convent from age 8 - 11 yrs. Some of the nuns were violent. I remember seeing a boy in the freezing cold with short trousers being thrashed on the thighs with a cane just out of the blue. Another one we had to watch being leathered by a heavy strap on his back for running away. They taught us about Mary, the saints, the rosary, communion but hardly nothing about Christ and certainly no scripture. I was given a scapula and was told if I wore it all my life I would go to heaven. I didn't know Jesus then. It was just religion religion relgion and superstition. Fortunately I came to Christ at aged 27 yrs and I was saved from the fear of Catholicism. Jesus is wonderful and has healed me from my childhood. I thank God for my life now and know that I belong to Him.

HOW SAD! this really touched my heart, not only for the children but all the girls..... 😭

The Catholic Church has one hell of a lot to answer for

Exceptional. Thank you for making this and showing it here.

Shame, shame shame. No one would help these women. Not their family, not their neighbors, not the government. The only place available to them was this evil church. Victoms of an ignorant, brutal , merciless people. The shame is not on the mothers or children it is on Ireland and the church both of whom get off scot free

Where I come from,our head of church is more of a politician than a shepherd.of God. I lost faith in the church,but I still believe in God with all my heart and I pray a lot too.

The memorial plaque is beautiful. 💜💜💜💜💜💜

The Catholic Church has always had problems concerning abuse.

“I’ve never heard of any homes for unmarried fathers.”

I'm shocked ! I've always identified with the Irish people, even if I'm from Eastern Europe, but the silence and indifference of the authorities in Ireland really pissed me off!!! how, how to treat such atrocities with such indifference??? hundreds of children can say killed, and by whom??? by the church! that organization that preaches mercy, love and help to the poor. I only hope that the Divinity will punish them if the civil authorities look at these crimes with such indifference. Shame Ireland, shame!

Saw this before...great (while difficult to watch) documentary.

Merci à tous pour ce reportage,ne jamais oublier tous ces enfants qui sont enterrés et à qui ont doit une sépulture .❤

I cant imagine if my baby was torn from my arms. My baby was born out of wedlock. So many beautiful babies abused and hurt for existing.

What's the bet the reason they don't want to excavate is because a lot more than 795 children are buried there?

Growing up Catholic ..goin to Catholic schools, i thought i already knew too much. To see these kinds of documentaries are no surprise but still shocking. Im glad these souls are being brought forth in our minds and hearts, to never be forgotten. Heart breaking stories!

And the males that got them pregnant???? Poor females

Merci pour ce documentaire glaçant. Que justice soit faite pour ces mamans et leurs petits anges.

Why isn’t the church made to pay for this.

The subtitles are absolutely horrible... 💯 why even have them if they're not done correctly?

Love in the universe to all the babies from Tuam 💓💕

Every Baby is created by GOD..and no child should be made to feel shame because of their existence.

there is a tons of documentaries about this irish children. very sad..

No matter one's beliefs, children are totally innocent no matter what. You can't be Christ Like & condemn a child, the two don't mix. This is akin to Georgia Tann's cruelties, in TN, of which she was cruel...."Stolen Babies", around mid last century. My cousin was one of those stolen babies......my late abused brother & I were in the Catholic run orphanage in Ft Wayne, IN. Too many 'foster care' really don't care 💔.....

I have not been in the Catholic Church since my father's death. I believe in God and worship Him by myself. I am genuinely perplexed how my friends support the Church. God Bless the dead children and survivors

The Magdalene Sisters (2002), d’emblée, dès les premières images, je repense à ce film que j’étais allée voir à sa sortie. Je me revois…je suis sortie du cinéma bouleversée…je ne m’attendais pas à voir ces horreurs. Ce film a eu le Lion d’Or à Venise ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Un prix, ô combien, mérité.🥀🇫🇷 21.4.2024

Heartbreaking. Huge credit and thanks to those who have worked so hard to bring this to light. Above all else I would say Dev bears a great deal of blame for this situation arising. The Church was given too great a role in the new state formed a century ago. Dev spent his time fulminating against the Treaty and obsessing on rubbish like the Oath. A great pity he did not spend more time enquiring into how the poorest and most vulnerable of his people were living.

Jane Gormley was the name of one baby girl in the mass grave. My name at birth was Jane Gormley. My grandfather was born in County Tyrone, Ireland. That little one could have been a distant relative of mine. So heartbreaking. The Holy Roman Catholic Church has much to atone for, in many many countries in the world.

Très intéressant mais si triste documentaire de France Télévisions. Merci à Catherine Corless pour son opiniâtreté, ce qu'elle fait est admirable. Dieu bénisse tous ces enfants et leurs Mamans. ❤🇨🇵

The majority of nuns in Ireland were frustrated spinsters forced to go in to servitude by their families. There was not an ounce of human kindness in them and they took their bitterness and frustrations out on those who they deemed to be sinful. My Granny lived in Schull as a child and recalls having to sneak out letters for the young nuns as Mother Superior would read everything. She also recalls the harsh punishment she and her classmates received for the tiniest of infractions.

It's been years since this has come to light.What has been done about it

These “Laundries” were all over Ireland, so there must be thousands of babies buried like this. Why is only Tuam talked about?

My mother worked in them magdaline laundries I was adopted and met her when I was in my 20ts. Her life was awfull in care of the nuns

In the 70's, my girlfriend attended a Catholic Convent for unwed teens & all of these girls were drnied Lamaz. That was horrible 😢. Peace be with us all 🙏. "Isa"

This happened in every country where Catholics ran schools. In Canada the rcs operated residential schools. It has been reported that 8000 kids have died in these schools and that old fossil in rome refuses to apologize for thecrimes they have commited.

I am pretty sure there are a lot of places like this on the surface of the planet unfortunately, this is scarie really and so shameful

It is terrible to tear young babies from their mothers arms I think you lost your sole through it, the longing will be like cancer they could have look after the mother as well as the baby and raise them together, but there are too many other people who like to make rules and ruin other peoples lives through it.

I've watched this film a couple of times as a father this is heartbreaking

shame is one of the most painful things a human can feel. in my family they worked a lot with shame too, its horrible. but this here must be uncompareble

The Mother & Baby Home in Tuam isn't the only convent that hides mass graves.... The Irish government PAID the convents for "looking after" the poor female prisoners & their children. When a "good Roman Catholic couple" were found, usually in America & boy they were charged heavy amounts for a child! The laundry of "The Good Shepherd, Waterside, Derry, was a horrible prison. My Uncle saw a woman, obviously near the time of her delivery, along with others on their knees, cutting the huge lawns with....small scissors. The supervising nuns beat them with "Cats O Nine Tails" (whips with many leather straps which were embedded with iron studs) if they didn't think they were working hard enough.... He got in immediately, knocked on the door & was refused entrance to speak to the mother superior I refuse to capitalise her so-called title). He told her that, if she didn't stop this cruelty immediately, he'd speak to reporters in "The Derry Journal" about it! That changed her tune... I also was boarded in a Dominican convent, at the top of Lime ST., Liverpool (England) for a month, while I attended the hospital there. I befriended 2 nuns. One had dementia & the other told me she was miserable there but couldn't get out. The latter was sent, permanently to the "Mother House" for the Dominican order, as she also wanted to be allowed to read the bible. The latter, older nun & I strolled around the ground at sunset every night together. One day she stopped in a corner of the vast gardens which I always steered her away from as being there troubled her so much. In a brief instance of lucidity, she whispered to me that "This is where we buried the babies &, God help them, they were innocents...". So the Roman Catholis church not only covers for paedophiles but also the victims of cruelty.

Thank goodness i was brought up in dirty Britain! I'm married to an irishman and have seen firsthand how the irish were brainwashed by the church, my mil is still very under its spell. Believe in what you want but don't inflict misery on others whilst doing it! Before i knew about this place, id always get a feeling of dread, driving through tuam to get to galway city, now i know why. Rest in peace and if you're a surviour of this hell on earth, it wasnt your fault and you are worth love and a happy life.

Such a beautiful plaque... Touching...truthful and factual... A fitting testament for a most tragic tale... The hands not quite touching... What appears to be a gap is indeed a void... The suffering within such an empty space is heart wrenching... 🇿🇦

Society always punishes the woman.. one way or another.

Just about to visit Tuam, where my husband’s family come from. Once worked with a priest from Tuam. He was one of the biggest bullies that I ever met.

Why was the church not charged with murder as an institution and the individuals involved in this atrocities.

And the Church even flew to other countries to “rescue” pregnant girls and women and bring them back to Ireland for punishment! How disgusting and completely uncalled for.

The 2002 film, 'The Magdalene Sisters', depicted the suffering of those women who worked in the laundries. Worth to watch.

What a horror and tragedy. All for the sake of so called morality. The taking and selling of children and the money made by taking one yourself. What shame, what grief these little ones endured. If surviving an infancy without their mothers milk and the special one on one care she'd have given them. Only to face years in an institutional setting of unloving care and brutality by the tired nuns. What calling is this? What scripture was referenced? To justify the stealing of a child born out of wedlock or the shaming of them? Was Jesus taken from Mary or shamed for her unmarried pregnancy? What was put away back then that Joseph considered, then was faced with an Angel himself? And what of these little ones of His, our Father in Heaven, are not these little ones His as well?

One thing that amazes me,all the women who went through that hell,and they seem so strong. I suppose you'd have to be tough to make it out alive.

Oh my God . 😢 so shocking . incomprehensible so incomprehensible and painful that I can't express it 😢👃 so heartless. 🤬 with God's blessing to all children. greetings from Belgium

Shame on the roman catholic church. Shame on me for being a part of it for 60 years. Thank you my HEAVENLY FATHER for the glorious life you have given me since I left. I know true love. I know YOUR joy LORD GOD. I know and live YOUR WORD.

It's so 💔 to learn how dysfunctional, harmful, contradicting, very judgmental, cruel, cold, misleading of the real truth of the True Gospel. I am so grateful that I left the Catholic Church. Peace be with us all 🙏. "Isa"

Catherine Corless... . A lady with more courage than all the politicans of the last 70 yrs and more put together. . Let that sink in .. . More courage than all that shower put together. . This is our political class. A bunch of total cowards. . Still to this day... . Thank you Catherine. There's a special place for you in heaven, along with all those children. .

Reminds me of the sadistic nuns I dealt with in Catholic school as a child. They wielded their rulers with great anger and for the least problem.

My father always said, no child of mine will be baptized Catholic. God doesn’t want 10 percent of a fathers income when he is struggling to feed his children. 🤷‍♀️

It seems the women's families are very much to blame. I would assume the nuns had no support from anyone. Very sad story. kd

This is truly heartbreaking. Imagine being a teenager, going into labor surrounded by nuns who offered nothing but judgment and apathy. The trauma of that experience, compounded by the forced separation from your newborn, is unimaginable.

Sad story but whoever did the subtitles for this was not true to the words of the speakers

In belgium there was Zelem Where after the closure by the police the dough up over 150 childrens body's The orphanage was ruled by Nuns .

The worst thing is that the church elders covered and still cover these cruel things that happened and perhaps still happening.

My mum was Irish from co. Wexford. When she was young she worked in Hatch ST. Nursing Home in Dublin in the mid 50s. Single mother's would come and have their babies and give them up for adoption. She said it was very hard emotionally seeing how distressed the mum's were, giving up their babies. And then they'd leave to carry on their lives.

Thank goodness that era has passed, those poor mothers and children.

to my surprise, those people know what the catholic church has done but they still follow them and give them money

My neice had to go through hell when her baby wouldn't be able to go through and survive the labour and birth and pain Theos insides were on the outside Lola has a beautiful picture and little alter for him❤

Life is so damn hard. I just do not understand why society creates these extra hoops and standards that are not necessary, but which just burden and potentially destroy lives already struggling.

Strah me i komentarisati, zašta su ljudi sposobni ,koliko zločina je činjeno i čini sse u ime BOGA. Koliko su im isprani mozgovi i dalje im ispiraju . BOG je stvorio ŽIVOT, NE VERE 🙏🙏🙏🙏

How can 800 babies just disappear it’s disgraceful.

Que pena siento por esos niños y madres.😢😢❤

There is a Jack Taylor episode that deals with this subject in the show his mother was in one of these places. I don't remember if his mom was pregnant or there for some other reason? The episode is good worth watching!

The recording describes young girls and women has 'having transgressed' - when likely they had been sexually violated by men who they had mistakenly trusted.

I know this has happened in Canada and the United States too !

Sadly this is not the only institution that committed such crimes. Convents of Nuns, sadly did the exact same to their unwanted bebe's 😢. Peace be with us all 🙏. "Isa"

a very upsetting story, but thanks for sharing it all the same. a story that needs to be told.

Children are made from an act of love. Love. Pure love. Religion steams from everything but love. Horrible dark nights Horrible. Shame shame

Not just in Ireland, but on every continent. Reparations?

I was baptized within hours of my birth by my father. He wanted to take no chances even though infant mortality in the US circa 1979 was negligible. It wqs done officially later as is the custom.

The importance of family life SHOWING the state of the state. Now the stories are being uncovered to care. Which makes a beautiful ending to a bad history. What amazing people who are uncovering that Shame of the past and may it never happen again.

Ο😮😮😮 Ο Ιησούς Χριστός μας αναφέρει μάθετε την αλήθεια και η αλήθεια μας θα μας ελευθερώσει ❤

Where are the mothers buried?

Sineas O'Connor was right, nodoby believed her.

This is what happens when man thinks he knows what God wants and thinks it brings nothing but sorrow and pain to the living.

Glad I’m not Catholic!😢 This is disturbing and heartbreaking:((( Thank you for the “truth”!

Yes indeed. The Catholic Church in Ireland has a very dark history. How could ‘religious’ people be so cruel and mean to both the mothers & children; mothers who may have been abused or ignorant about the facts of life and children who were innocent of any wrongdoing. The Church was all powerful and there was a great deal of fear, that was part of it. Let’s face it many, many of the perpetrators were not Christian in their demeanour and behaviour. Nothing ‘Christ like’ about these creatures. I hope Ireland learns from this and puts this Catholic Church in its place and faces up loud & clear to wrongdoing.

I agree with you 💯 since I'm against abuse towards women and children and also I'm a woman with rights too ❤😢