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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jun 2, 2017 22:29:21 GMT
Regarding my question about whether secularists will miss Catholicism when it's gone. I think they might. i've just been watching "Bridget and Eamonn" for the first time-- well, a few minutes-- and it was all about a moving statue of Our Lady. Post-Catholic Ireland seems to return to Catholicism, and the drama of renouncing Catholicism, obsessively. It seems to define itself against it and I'm not sure it has any other way to define itself.
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Post by cato on Jul 22, 2017 22:03:32 GMT
I see the minister of health who is drafting the future abortion laws took time off to get married yesterday. Before the ceremony he set up a group to investigate the ownership of non state ie catholic hospitals. The group is made up of Catherine Day an advisor to John Claude Junckers( I am not making this up!) Jane Grimson chair of the Gender equality taskforce at NUI Galway and Deirdre Madigan an expert in medical law ethics and patient safety at UCC. Note the gender bias . And I assume we can safely suggest a certain ideological one too.
I was surprised he can do this constitutionally as presumably the right to private property is guaranteed full stop.The HSE who would take over in the event of a power grab have hardly had a sucessful record in managing and funding medical care to date either.
Mr Harris a catholic, has a zeal that is frightening . A new celtic kulturkampf is well underway. Schools and now hospitals and any expression of catholic influence are fair game it would seem.
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Post by Séamus on Aug 27, 2017 12:33:18 GMT
I remembera free years ago, in Enda Kenny's time, there was talk of Irish civil law overriding the confessional seal when it came to reporting crimes, the abuse of minors in particular. Did that fizzle out altogether? I'm asking because ,in Australia,a Royal Commission into child abuse begun some years ago, under Julia Gillard, has just put forward the same idea among it's final recommendations. Some bishops have made statements about it, none have given in to the idea. A famous , media-savvy social-justice warrior Fr Frank Brennan SJ, who has previously promoted voting for the pro-abortion/euthanasia(and everything else) Greens Party, has surprised a lot of people by saying that it simply can't happen.
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Post by Tomas on Aug 27, 2017 12:59:54 GMT
Tragic news. Invasion of State rulers personal power plays and machinations to intentionally hurt Holy Mother Church "from behind" must be the lowest level of politics thus far?
Celtic - or worldwide - kulturkampf in 2017 was not what I had imagined to happen before following these shocking Catholic reports.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 27, 2017 13:30:50 GMT
I remembera free years ago, in Enda Kenny's time, there was talk of Irish civil law overriding the confessional seal when it came to reporting crimes, the abuse of minors in particular. Did that fizzle out altogether? I'm asking because ,in Australia,a Royal Commission into child abuse begun some years ago, under Julia Gillard, has just put forward the same idea among it's final recommendations. Some bishops have made statements about it, none have given in to the idea. A famous , media-savvy social-justice warrior Fr Frank Brennan SJ, who has previously promoted voting for the pro-abortion/euthanasia(and everything else) Greens Party, has surprised a lot of people by saying that it simply can't happen. Yes, that seems to have been dropped...for now.
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