Until 1996, the Irish branch of the Roman Catholic Church sent more than 30,000 “fallen women” — meaning prostitutes, single mothers, social activists, the poor and the orphaned — to Dickensian forced ...

Every life is a universe all its own.

Stirring up controversy for its depiction of Ireland's brutal, now-defunct Magdalene laundries for wayward girls, Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters muckrakes the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church ...

Father Joseph Mohr, a newly appointed priest in the town of Oberndorf (near Salzburg), meets the beautiful prostitute Magdalene. He struggles to change her situation and make a new life for her, and ...

If the wages of sin are death, then what retribution awaits those who punish others that have not sinned? Sadly, in writer/director Peter Mullan's "The Magdalene Sisters," the victims seem to bear all ...

The task is simple: walk or die.