Kildare priest "rescued" mother from Protestant home in 1939 - Mother and Baby Report Home set up by Legion of Mary member, a senior civil servant, was in terrible state Reporter: '); A battle for mothers between Roman Catholic and Protestant institutions involved a Kildare priest, according to one of the chapters in the Commission on Mother and Babies report. The report on the Regina Coeli hostel, set up in Dublin by Frank Duff, founder of the Roman Catholic Legion of Mary organisation said that in 1939 a woman was brought to Regina Coeli that year by a Catholic priest from Kilcullen “who rescued her from Bethany Home.”