Utterly astounding how the perpetrators of this kind of thing could moralise at unmarried mothers yet allow such things to happen (or actually actively do these things). I saw this yesterday on the Graun and was a bit ashamed that I knew nothing about this. Mind you, when it come to covering up wrong doing, turning a blind eye and ‘moving on’ predatory criminals, the Catholic Church does have previous. Lots of previous.
It doesn’t take too much of a leap of imagination to consider what other ‘punishments’ these ‘ungodly’ children and mothers might have deemed worthy of. It is sickening, and a very sad indictment of medieval chauvinistic bigotry being dressed up as righteousness. No homes for the fathers of these children, note.
But so long as ‘lessons are learned’ and the perpetrators either die before being exposed or slip away unnoticed, then it all fine.
This whole thing makes me feel physically sick, I’m afraid.
