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 Hi  , Thank you for your hard work! A quick question, here: In the opening sentence defining the facilities, do you sense that it is truly appropriate to tell the reader that all Magdalene institutions were "Catholic institutions from the 18th to the late 20th centuries." That is, considering the next paragraph which indicates that Arabella Denny (who founded the Magdalen Asylum for Protestant Girls on Leeson Street, Dublin in 1765) opened the first asylum...a facility for non-Catholics? The third paragraph does a nice job of explaining that "there isn't anything exclusively 'Irish' or 'Catholic' about these institutions, and then in the 6th paragraph, we have mention of parallel Church of Ireland and Presbyterian institutions. Your compadre may disagree, but it seems we might be better off omitting the word "Catholic" or changing the phrase "were Catholic institutions" in the opening sentence since the declaration is currently contradicted in the supporting paragraphs. Just curious as to what you might think, . Thank you!