Eamon Martin backs calls for mother and baby home inquiry Archbishop Eamon Martin has said the homes should be subject to investigation. 29 January, 2021 17:21
THE leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin has said he would support a public inquiry into what happened in the north s mother and baby homes.
The Catholic Primate also agreed that victims of mother and baby homes should be entitled to compensation.
A Department of Health report on the homes was published on Tuesday and the Executive have now agreed to commission an independent investigation into what went on in the institutions, workhouses and Magdalene Laundries.
The priests offering Mass at Kilrush, Co Clare, and at the Navan Road parish in Dublin, near the Pelletstown home, did not mention or respond to the report in their Sunday Mass.
Parish Priest Fr Gerry Clarke SJ, at the Gardiner Street parish near the St Gerardâs home, said the report âbrought a realisation of the darkness that existed in Ireland from the time of our independence up until the 1990sâ.
âI just wonder myself how a Catholic country seemed to go so far away from whatâs really at the heart of the gospel,â he said.
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Catholic Primate of All Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin has said he would be disappointed if the religious congregations were scapegoated for their role in mother-and-baby homes.
The chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Media Niamh Smyth has called on RTÃ to remove a controversial sketch about God from its media player.
Ms Smyth, who is also Fianna Failâs partyâs spokeperson for Arts and Culture, described the sketch which has prompted almost 6,000 complaints to RTÃ as âdeeply offensive and blasphemousâ.
The Waterford Whisper News skit caused widespread offence when the former newsreader Aengus Mac Grianna read out a mock bulletin stating that God had been arrested on charges of sexual harassment for âforcing himself on a young Middle Eastern migrant and allegedly impregnating her against her willâ.
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