"Buried by the praise for the pope's
humility was the news that Irish Catholic orders were refusing to
compensate "fallen" women, who toiled in their Magdalene laundries. The
Sisters of Mercy, the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, the Sisters of
Charity and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd belied their names by
benefiting from the proceeds of what I can only call slave labour.
They kept women working for nothing behind locked doors in sweltering laundries . This is not some half-forgotten abuse from before most of us were born. With the complicity of Ireland's quasi-theocratic state, women were condemned to sweat for nothing into the 1990s. Yet the church refuses to pay them the wages it stole, and the Irish government will not even strip the thieving orders of their charitable status by way of retaliation.
http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Magdalene_laundry
They kept women working for nothing behind locked doors in sweltering laundries . This is not some half-forgotten abuse from before most of us were born. With the complicity of Ireland's quasi-theocratic state, women were condemned to sweat for nothing into the 1990s. Yet the church refuses to pay them the wages it stole, and the Irish government will not even strip the thieving orders of their charitable status by way of retaliation.
http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Magdalene_laundry