There are 50,000 reported cases of child abuse in Ireland every year.
Pretending Confession is the issue shows Socdems don't want separation of church and state and that they are willing to use serious issues as a battering ram to come after Catholics
The Socdems have claimed that there is a 'baptism barrier' in Irish schools
This is a complete fabrication designed to cover the failures of secular authorities (their leader was a Minister once) to provide alternatives
It simply doesn't occur
Socdems are complete hypocrites on the topic of religion who claim to want to separate Church and State yet at the same time they will tell Catholics how to perform their sacraments and run their schools
Just Catholics mind you, no other faith school or group
TD Holly Cairnes whipped up a hate mob on social media after implying Mass was given an exemption last week, which all faith groups had
Holly was on her 6 week holiday while priests buried people who were given lonely funerals
The hypocrisy runs deeper.
Gary Gannon thinks it's okay to blame the ordinary Catholics in 2018 for the failures of Irish society in the 20th century,with his celebrity friends intimidating people as they went to Mass with a sick stunt involving children's shoes on rails
It is quite ironic that Gary developed such courage and clarity of purpose
He feigned ignorance when questioned about the Irish left's support for the Muslim Brotherhood a number of years ago and has also shown concern for Muslims receiving the treatment Socdems give Catholics
You have to laugh sometimes though.
Gary was close to tears in 2018 when people with lanyards to work at the Phoenix Park had a symbol of the Papal Cross in the Park on it
Gary seemed to equate it to a Yellow Star in Nazi Germany. No doubt he really believed it.
More recently the party have been spreading anti Catholic and anti Polish conspiracy theories about 'LGBT free zones' which are actually areas that ban the predatory and evil ideology of people like Peter Tatchell in schools
In 2017
Catherine Murphy wasted Dail time by speaking on trying to get rid of prayer from the Dail
Not drugs from the streets
Not serious crime
Prayer from the Dail
Obsessed
It is worth remembering for all the flaws that they accuse us of having
Their leader Roisin Shortall was Minister in a Fine Gael government that made tens of thousands homeless, drove many to despair with economic ruin and which unjustly taxed people
Lastly of course there are the disgusting and vile messages of Holly Cairns
Nobody who speaks like this should be a TD
If this had been about any other group she would be gone now. Standards for thee but not for me.
Social Democrats are a NeoLiberal party who want to continue failed neoliberal policies that have contributed to high suicide rates, high drug statistics & economic hardship
They want to take away the church from us because like good NeoLiberals they know that it undermines them
Do not vote for them at the next election
Cork South West
Dublin Central
Dublin Bay North
Wicklow
Dublin North West
Kildare North
Let's get them out, get registered and canvass for your local prolife candidate
You don't need to let people bully you over things that happened before you were born
On the left, the Catholic Church in 2020
On the right, the Neoliberalism of the Social Democrats in 2020
Be proud of who we are.
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Media reporting that Pope Leo XIV called for 'open borders' and attacked 'political nationalism'
His comments on 'borders' were related to spiritual divisions between people while his comments on 'political nationalism' clearly referred to war zones, such as Gaza and Ukraine
Read for yourself:
"The Spirit opens borders, first of all, in our hearts. He is the Gift that opens our lives to love. His presence breaks down our hardness of heart, our narrowness of mind, our selfishness, the fears that enchain us and the narcissism that makes us think only of ourselves. The Holy Spirit comes to challenge us, to make us confront the possibility that our lives are shrivelling up, trapped in the vortex of individualism. Sadly, oddly enough, in a world of burgeoning “social” media, we risk being ever more alone. Constantly connected, yet incapable of “networking”. Always immersed in a crowd, yet confused and solitary travellers.
The Spirit of God allows us to find a new way of approaching and experiencing life. He puts us in touch with our inmost self, beneath all the masks we wear. He leads us to an encounter with the Lord by teaching us to experience the joy that is his gift. He convinces us, as we just heard in Jesus’ words, that only by abiding in love, will we receive the strength to remain faithful to his word and to let it transform us. The Spirit opens our interior borders, so that our lives can become places of welcome and refreshment.
The Spirit also opens borders in our relationship with others. Jesus tells us that this Gift is the love between him and the Father that comes to dwell within us. We then become capable of opening our hearts to our brothers and sisters, overcoming our rigidity, moving beyond our fear of those who are different, and mastering the passions that stir within. The Spirit also transforms those deeper, hidden dangers that disturb our relationships, like suspicion, prejudice or the desire to manipulate others. I think too, with great pain, of those cases where relationships are marked by an unhealthy desire for domination, an attitude that often leads to violence, as is shown, tragically, by numerous recent cases of femicide.
The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, brings to maturity within us the fruits that enable us to cultivate good and healthy relationships: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control”
In this way, the Spirit broadens the borders of our relationships and opens us to the joy of fraternity. This is also a critical yardstick for the Church. For we are truly the Church of the Risen Lord and disciples of Pentecost if there are no borders or divisions among us; if we are able to dialogue and accept one another in the Church, and to reconcile our diversities; and if, as Church, we become a welcoming and hospitable place for all.
Finally, the Spirit also opens borders between peoples. At Pentecost, the Apostles spoke the languages of those they met, and the confusion of Babel was finally resolved by the harmony brought about by the Spirit. Whenever God’s “breath” unites our hearts and makes us view others as our brothers and sisters, differences no longer become an occasion for division and conflict but rather a shared patrimony from which we can all draw, and which sets us all on journey together, in fraternity.
The Spirit breaks down barriers and tears down the walls of indifference and hatred because he “teaches us all things” and “reminds us of Jesus’ words” He teaches us, reminds us, and writes in our hearts before all else the commandment of love that the Lord has made the center and summit of everything. Where there is love, there is no room for prejudice, for “security” zones separating us from our neighbors, for the exclusionary mindset that, tragically, we now see emerging also in political nationalisms"
The term 'security zone' has a very particular meaning in this context
In case you are in doubt that 'political nationalisms' and 'security zones' refers to Gaza and Ukraine, this is what Leo XIV said immediately after mentioning those:
'It was on the feast of Pentecost that Pope Francis observed: “In our world today, there is so much discord, such great division. We are all ‘connected’, yet find ourselves disconnected from one another, anesthetized by indifference and overwhelmed by solitude” (Homily, 28 May 2023). The wars plaguing our world are a tragic sign of this. Let us invoke the Spirit of love and peace, that he may open borders, break down walls, dispel hatred and help us to live as children of our one Father who is in heaven.
Brothers and sisters, Pentecost renews the Church and the world! May the strong wind of the Spirit come upon us and within us, open the borders of our hearts, grant us the grace of encounter with God, enlarge the horizons of our love and sustain our efforts to build a world in which peace reigns'
On this day in 1879, one of the most unique and powerful Marian and Eucharistic miracles took place in the West of Ireland.
Our Lady of Knock is the story of famine, faith, war, hope and mystery.
It also highlights Catholicism's unique role in Irish history and vice versa
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1879 was a tumultuous year in Irish history
The 'Land War' commenced with the foundation of The Land League, which agitated for change due to abusive high rents and evictions from cruel, mostly foreign, landlords
The image below shows an eviction in Clare
Some Irish priests including Knock's Canon Ulick Bourke became involved with this movement
Bourke served on the committee of the Land League and spoke at some of their huge public meetings
Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin DELETES tweet after it emerges that it may indict Joe Biden on charges of violating the Logan Act, which forbids such unauthorised communications
Former Trump advisor Michael Flynn was prosecuted for violating the act similarly in 2016
UPDATE
This is a violation of the Logan Act, unlike Boris Johnson's call which was congratulatory
Martin seems confused and has now reuploaded his tweet, further landing Biden in potential trouble as he CONFIRMS that they discussed foreign policy
Martin's tweets only confirm what some suspected after this interview
Joe Biden's conversations with foreign leaders are not merely congratulatory and they ARE discussing foreign policy, something that General Flynn was indicted on under the Logan Act
Mijatovic is a long time collaborator with George Soros and his Open Democracy group
Her position as Human Rights Commissioner for the Council of Europe is essentially a front for appearing impartial regarding Soros's malignant influence in Europe
Mijatovic regularly outlines her plans on the Open Democracy website
Including taking advantage of Covid 19 to increase abortion laws across Europe