Were the Tuam babies refused baptism? No. Kevin Clarke looks at another problem with the medias representation of the Galway tragedy. Father Fintan Monahan, Tuam’s diocesan secretary, told me this morning that the diocese has in its records thousands of baptismal certificates for the children that were born or brought into the home in Tuam. Beyond that physical evidence of the baptismal record, he asked the diocesan archivist to look further into the issue to see if any evidence of a past policy to refuse to baptize children born out of wedlock could be teased out of the diocesan archives. “We can find no evidence that it was ever the policy, he reports.
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 17:21:37 +0000