Scandals for the Catholic Church in Ireland

Once again the Catholic Church is making headlines. But this time the scandals stretch back to the 1930s and well into the late-1990s. What is it? Why boys in reform school were beaten, starved or raped by the Brothers in Irish reform schools and girls and women were beaten, mistreated and otherwise abandoned by families into convents. Unwed mothers were treated the worst. Their children would be taken off them and placed in orphanages whilst they worked in Laundries. One of these Laundries were the Magdalene Laundries. A movie in 2002 was based on the true story of these horrendous places. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/08/sunday/main567365.shtml The other story is the current news headline on yahoo news. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ireland_catholic_abuse I was raised Catholic, but really am quite lapsed. I prefer Gnosticism. These men and women who professed to love and serve God were the type of individuals I would classify as either dark entities or individuals with Life Themes such as Manipulator or Persecutor. I hope God can forgive these nuns and priests for I cannot. No child should ever be made to be a slave in the service of a benevolent God. It goes against the very thing God is and what Jesus said about allowing the children to come to him. I am embarrassed for the Faith I was raised in and for my Irish heritage. That such crimes could be committed by fellow Irish men and women shames me. My own cousins, Sisters Peter and Rosita were sweet women and nuns in the IHM and I'm sure they are spinning over in their graves over this outrage to the cloth and their heritage.