Are The Media Defaming the Irish Church and Irish Sisters?

(Gloria.TV News) At the moment, hundreds of media outlets worldwide are libeling the Church with an alleged discovery of a burial place for 796 children next to a big Catholic orphanage in Tuam, Ireland, closed in 1961. The impression is given that the children were murdered by the nuns who ran the place and then hidden away. In reality, the existence of the burial place was never a secret and the children died, well documented, from natural causes. In the first half of the 20th century, Ireland had one of the worst infant mortality rates in Europe, especially because of tuberculosis.

The Belfast Telegraph writes that a 1944 government inspection recorded evidence of malnutrition among some of the 271 children then living in the Tuam orphanage alongside 61 unwed mothers. The Telegraph does not say that in 1944, at the end of Second World War, there were very few European orphanages where the children did not show evidence of malnutrition.

Almost all media outlets use the story about the Irish orphanage to claim that “in keeping with Catholic teaching, out-of-wedlock children were denied baptism.” Obviously, all of the children living in the orphanage were baptized – which the media probably also do not like.