It’s a shame this is being done after the fiasco in Ireland, instead of well before that vote was taken.
I wonder how I could send a couple buck to Burke and his passe?
One of the more interesting things that came out during the Dublin archdiocese's abuse scandal IMO was hearing that the archdiocese was so ignorant of the Vatican's twice-issued instructions that they drafted their own plan for handling child-abuse accusations.
That said, it doesn't surprise me that the clergy would require some internal re-education about any moral matter at this point.
I am starting to see the pattern of the Catholic leadership making some smoke and mirrors image of a culture fight, but in reality, preserving the Catholic vote for the left.
This is a perfect example, the people in Italy didn't interfere and stop the actual vote of this Catholic nation of Ireland, but now they will do their after vote show bit.
We see it in America as well, they could get Catholics to vote for life and marriage, and against the democrat party, but they never have, and don't, and never will.
Remember how they treat pro-abortion democrat politics in America? It takes an effort to teach Christianity, yet keep your people voting against it.