works began last month<\/a> with the aim of recovering and forensically analysing the remains of nearly 800 infants buried at the site, many of whom are believed to have been interred in a disused septic tank.<\/p>\nA special body has been established by the Government to oversee the project and ensure that the recovered human remains are memorialised and buried with respect and dignity.<\/p>\n
Fr Brendan Kilcoyne, who served as secretary to the Archbishop of Tuam for over a decade, said \u201ca fortune of money\u201d was being spent on the excavation works despite the completion of a \u201cfirst-class\u201d government inquiry.<\/p>\n
He said the works would take two years, during which time a \u201cblack mass\u201d would take place in Tuam, peddling \u201cblack propaganda\u201d about the history of the home.<\/p>\n
Fr Kilcoyne said there was an \u201coutrageous myth\u201d that children at the institution had \u201cmet an untimely end through bad action\u201d. He described the nuns who ran the home as \u201coutstanding\u201d, and said he did not believe there was any \u201cbad action\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are now about to spend two years and a fortune of money excavating every single piece of human remains in an area where it was always known human remains were buried,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\n We are going to have this liturgy. We\u2019re going to have this black mass in Tuam that\u2019s going to go on for two years, constantly peddling the same line, the same black propaganda, the black legend, the whole time.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
A \u201cblack mass\u201d is a satanic ritual or a blasphemous ceremony mocking the Christian mass.<\/p>\n
He claimed that the Church was being \u201cshafted\u201d by the deliberate propagation of misinformation surrounding the history of the mother and baby home, and said the government inquiry had \u201clargely exonerated\u201d the nuns.<\/p>\n
Appearing to question the decision to carry out excavation works in Tuam, Fr Kilcoyne asked whether anyone knew where \u201cthe 60,000 Irish children who have been murdered since abortion was brought in\u201d were buried.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s dig them up,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Fr Kilcoyne, who also served as president of the local post-primary school in Tuam for five years, was speaking on his podcast, The Brendan Option.<\/p>\n
He said an impression was being given in an \u201cunscrupulous manner\u201d that children died through bad action or criminal behaviour in Tuam, and that they were \u201cdeliberately buried in a septic tank\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A priest and former diocesan secretary of Tuam has criticised the excavation of remains underway at the former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23204,9,10,2512,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,5874,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-29039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-mother-and-baby-homes","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-catholic-church","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-religion","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}