It’s previously been said in these pages that in the Church, the State has found the perfect scapegoat for the failings of the Mother and Baby Homes, and nowhere is this scapegoating more apparent than in the Government’s efforts to force the Legion of Mary to cough up millions of euros for its work through the Regina Coeli hostel.
The topic of religious institutions and financial redress for the role they did or didn’t play was brought up again last week by former Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl TD, who told The Irish Catholic newspaper that he fails to see “why the department views the Legion of Mary/Regina Coeli as a relevant organisation when neither the Commission of Investigation nor the independent negotiator found against them or recommended that they should contribute to redress, from what I consider in any case to be their very limited means”.
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