{"id":7622,"date":"2021-01-13T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/irish-church-and-state-apologise-for-callous-mother-and-baby-home-institutions"},"modified":"2021-01-13T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T16:56:09","slug":"irish-church-and-state-apologise-for-callous-mother-and-baby-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/13\/irish-church-and-state-apologise-for-callous-mother-and-baby-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish church and state apologise for callous mother and baby homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taoiseach accepts state responsibility for historic cruelty as Catholic primate acknowledges \u2018painful truths\u2019<\/p><p>The Irish state and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ireland\">Ireland\u2019s<\/a> Catholic church have made landmark apologies for running and enabling a network of religious institutions that abused and shamed unmarried mothers and their children for much of the 20th century.<\/p><p>The taoiseach, Miche\u00e1l Martin, led government figures on Wednesday in accepting responsibility and expressing remorse for mother-and-baby homes that turned generations of vulnerable women and infants into outcasts.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jun\/13\/mother-behind-galway-childrens-mass-grave-story\">The mother behind the Galway children's mass grave story: 'I want to know who's down there'<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/irish-church-and-state-apologise-for-callous-mother-and-baby-home-institutions\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/irish-church-and-state-apologise-for-callous-mother-and-baby-home-institutions\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taoiseach accepts state responsibility for historic cruelty as Catholic primate acknowledges \u2018painful truths\u2019The Irish state and Ireland\u2019s Catholic church have made landmark apologies for running and enabling a network of religious institutions that ab&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":683,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1549,2061,2063,900,471,6,2060,2064,105,2062,520,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7623,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions\/7623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}