Pope Francis on Sunday has condemned how Irish children were “robbed of their innocence and taken from their mothers” by Catholic Church-run institutions that put them up for adoption for the shame of having been born to unwed mothers.
Francis spoke out about Ireland’s haunting history of forced adoptions during a prayer on Sunday in Knock, the country’s main shrine in northwestern dedicated to Christ’s mother, Mary.
He did so after Saturday’s meeting with some of the adoptees, who urged him to denounce the practice, demand an apology from the religious sisters responsible and assure the mothers they could search now for their lost children without fear of sin.
Francis prayed that such abuses never occur again and for the church “to proceed with justice and reparation, where responsible, for the violence.”
Pope Francis has visited a famous shrine in Ireland and was to celebrate a Mass dedicated to families a day after an emotional…
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