The Catholic church wont get involved unless their dues and baskets are down ā¦ up to the 70s they used to read peopleās names from the altar who didnt contribute or paid very little, despite most of those families being extremely poorā¦ Not sure that happened in many other countries ā¦ People talk about Catholic guilt, it doesnt exisit - thereās an Irish Catholic guilt alright because the Church and middle classes utterly shamed the poor in this country for about 150 years. Rotten cunts.
My mates father who grew up dirt poor in Kilrush - literally, no shoes, often recalls the motherās name (a widow) being read out for not giving x amount to the duesā¦ that was in the 60s.
Why did the church not speak out when we took on the debt of private institutions? When thousands were sent to the dole queues and thousands more had to leave the country
One of the maddest things I have heard in relation to the Church is a term called āchurchedā.
This related to an activity which was required to be carried out on the mother of new born kids (even if there was no funny business with them) before they were allowed back in the church.
I think the reasoning behind it was that the mother was somehow unclean after having sex and needed to be āchurchedā to absolve her from her sins.
Basically the woman attended a sort of ceremony where the priest said a few prayers and afterwards the woman slipped him a few bob of course.
I am not sure if that was a Leitrim thing only but it is pretty fucked up to say the least.
Ah come on now. They didnāt know what they were doing. Like the recently retired Primate of All Ireland Sean Brady. He was in a room back in the 70s where a kid was forced to sign a confidentiality agreement in relation to abuse allegations (which were subsequently proven to be correct). There is no way he should resign though - he wasnāt aware of the seriousness of what was happening.
Yeah Iāve heard of this too. My maternal grandmother had six kids and she wasnāt allowed to attend any of their christenings, and that was a parish in Cork. The mother would have to wait until the first Sunday after the christening to receive the blessing and return to the church. Mad shit.
Most of that money is being paid back. The collapse of the banks would have resulted in ordinary people losing their savings all over Ireland and runs on the bank. So letās not pretend it was just a fat cat bailout.
The majority of our debt is via overspending. Itās an inconvenient truth for the morons in our society who just want to blame everyone else.
