could have prevented this hideous tragedy. Same goes for the present and the future.

I'm a recovering Catholic. I ditched out when they tried to sell me on kissing being a 'mortal sin'. That was the late 50's. Can't even imagine what it was like before that. It's an accidental pregnancy, not murder for hell's sake!

I was starting to wonder.

While at the same time proclaiming a "pro-life" stance.

Glad you like the story.

Confirms your intentions.

the rolling on the floor smiley was not about ~800 babies killed by the Catholic Church, but rather that the same church claims to be pro life.

for whom Catherine Corless found death certificates showing they died at the Tuam home?

Despite some low-quality reporting to the contrary, the home was neither physically nor legally part the Bons Secours religious community, which was actually located about a kilometer away

The home itself had been the county workhouse, and when it later became the local home for unwed mothers, the county continued to own the property and fund operations there, even though it was administered by Bons Secours

There seems to be evidence the facility was poorly maintained and quite overcrowded, that disease spread rapidly in the nursery, that necessities such as food and medical attention were inadequate, and that the death rate was extraordinarily high, especially in the WWII era. There's also evidence that the county was aware of the problems but was not inclined to provide funding to improve conditions there

"Extraordinarily high even for the time" and"Run by nuns and priests" and "Not the only place this happened" and "Don't try and defend mass murder of actual babies"

about $6.50 per resident per day (in current US dollars) to support operations there

Current cost estimates for warehousing the homeless in the US don't seem to fall below $25 per person per day and (depending on location) are sometimes much high, so it seems possible that county funding was completely inadequate

Current cost estimates for feeding the homeless don't seem to fall as low as $1.50 per person per meal so one might guess that the 1927 County Galway support for Home residents left (in current US dollars) less than $2 per resident per day for all operations other than feeding

of a mass grave, still less "mass murder."

But you're really enjoying your fantasy, aren't you?

on the other hand, it never happened, which is it? It's sick enough that it happened, now the apologists can't even get their stories straight! And this is along side the Magdalene laundries, which I suppose you have another source that has proof never existed.

All we know is that the home had an extremely high mortality rate and that the dead children were presumably buried on or near the grounds.

So far, the burials excavated appear to be from the time of the great famine, something that is consistent with mass burials. Since investigators have yet to find the remains of the children, we don't know whether they were buried individually or if their graves were marked.

"Mass murder" appears to be your personal invention. There is no evidence to support it.

aren't defending mass murder. But I wouldn't count on it.

The speculation that there is a mass grave comes from the fact that Catherine Corless obtained official death records for 796 persons who died at the home between 1925 and 1961 and was unable to locate burial records; and two individuals report that they saw found about 20 skeletons under a concrete slab when playing there as children forty years ago. But the site was a county institution since 1840 or earlier, at one time being the county workhouse before Bon Secours administered it as a home for unwed mothers and their children for the county 1925-1961.

... A preliminary examination of the site is likely to involve testing .. for traces of human remains. They have to be forensically examined to determine whether they are remains of babies who died in the last century or famine victims from the nineteenth century. Gardai told RTE that some bones discovered at the site related to famine deaths ... TST, an engineering firm, was this weekend carrying out a subsurface radar examination of the site at the former mother-and-baby home. But sources admitted the team will not .. determine if skeletons are at the location ... but .. will only be searching for 'anomalies' in the soil ...
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/baby-deaths-now-gardai-probe-the-tuam-mass-grave-30337463.html