The Lost Children of Tuam
It was about twelve years ago, when I was on a speaking tour of the United States organised by the Church Reform movement, that the dramatic news from Ireland about nuns ‘dumping babies bodies into a septic tank’ had reached the U.S. I was asked many questions about it by the different gatherings I addressed. This was the year when Catherine Corless released the story about the Tuam mother and baby home.
Two weeks from today, October 17, what I believe is the culmination of five years of the Synodality Process comes to a conclusion at a day long meeting in Meath, attended by representatives of all the various groups and institutions in the Church. I was a delegate of the ACP at the two previous meetings, in Athlone and Kilkenny, but I have withdrawn from this one, and will be replaced by another ACP member.
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