“The Magdalene Sisters” is a fist of fury, a savage, sledgehammer attack on questionable practices by Ireland’s Catholic Church that is so fierce and furious, such a rip-roaring expose, that ...

A prominent member of a church reform group in Ireland has expressed outrage in a letter to Irish Bishop Denis Nulty over his reference to Mary Magdalene's "colorful past" in an April 11 homily ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) – The Irish government has agreed to pay up 58 million euros ($75 million) to hundreds of women forced to work at the Catholic Church’s notorious Magdalene Laundries af… ...

Starting in the 18th century, Magdalene asylums—named after Mary Magdalene, a friend of Jesus often described as a repentant prostitute—were run by both Catholic and Protestant patrons.

Originating in Ireland in the 18 th century, and operated by female religious organizations with government consent from the mid-19 th century onwards, the secretive, commercial laundry facilities, ...

Minister Norma Foley is bringing a plan to Cabinet for a permanent residential abuse commemorative centre on Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin to honour all victims of religious abuse. The new ...

Excavation has begun on a septic tank at a site in Ireland that authorities believe contains the remains of nearly 800 dead babies and children who died at a home for unwed mothers run by Catholic ...

In recent years, several books have attempted to piece together what really happened behind the doors of power in Ireland's Magdalene laundries, including Emer Martin’s novel 'The Cruelty Men ...

Ireland’s cruel religious institutions — named after the Biblical figure Mary Magdalene — are now the subject of BBC One drama Woman In The Wall, starring Ruth Wilson and Daryl McCormack.

Ireland’s cruel religious institutions — named after the Biblical figure Mary Magdalene — are now the subject of BBC One drama Woman In The Wall, starring Ruth Wilson and Daryl McCormack.

The Magdalene laundries, named for Mary Magdalene, soon became places that parents sent their daughters in order to hide out-of-wedlock pregnancies – as is the case with Lorna in The Woman in ...