I don't know how to explain Ireland's Magdalen laundries (originally supposedly set up as training schools), or the Catholic Church's other "residential school" mass murders, beyond basic facts. There were many "Magdalen laundries". In Tuam they murdered at least 796 infants, about one baby every two weeks during the 36 years it existed, plus the women murdered through intentional neglect and malnutrition. Babies' bodies were disappeared into sewers. Another mass grave of 222 infants was found at another site in Dublin. This was outsourced mass murder by a government targeting particular demographics of people in exactly the same way as all other "residential school" genocides. I have no expertise in this subject but even I know that the Catholic Church was using "residential schools" to mass murder indigenous people in the Americas from the 1600s onwards, e.g. in what is now Paraguay (tellingly the Catholic Church "educated" thousands of indigenous Guarani people in concentration camps without producing one indigenous Catholic priest). The Jesuits are still trying to spin these mass murders as a positive contribution to society - there are Jesuits, amongst others, employed today by the Catholic Church to twist history and theology into forms in which murdering Catholic priests and nuns didn't commit crimes or sins and aren't, according to their own religion, being tortured in hell for all eternity (they were "following orders", which sounds familiar...). I condemn all these intentional evils: all the orders, and all the murders, and all the cover-ups.

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