by Barbara | Jun 7, 2017 | Religious Orders
We are currently riding another wave of self-congratulation on how modern and inclusive we are in Ireland, in the wake of the election of Leo Varadkar as Leader of Fine Gael and presumptive Taoiseach. We now have a leader to match Canada and France in terms of boyish...
by Barbara | Apr 21, 2016 | Religious Orders, Uncategorized
Every year, on the Sunday before International Women’s Day, the public are encouraged to place flowers on the graves of ‘Magdalene’s’ – so called fallen women, ‘unmarried mothers’ who were placed in laundries run by the church. I recently discovered that there had...
