Posted on 05/30/2015 10:01:22 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
The Constitution of Ireland begins: “In the name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority and to Whom, as our final end, all actions both of men and States must be referred, / We, the people of Éire, / Humbly acknowledging all our obligations to our Divine Lord, Jesus Christ . . .”
The landslide vote in Eire for legalizing the fictitious form of marriage between persons of the same sex, in contradiction of all laws natural and divine, unearths the pulsating Druidism that Saint Patrick and his fellow saints defied. The estimated $17 million from pressure groups in the United States is no excuse, for people will only be pressured if they are willing to be pressured. Another dismal fact is that over 90% of the young people influenced to subscribe to this vote were formed in Catholic schools. The vote was less in favor of inversion and more in hostility to a Church whose Jansenism and clericalism had incubated corruption and lassitude. While most of Europe suffers from the deadly sin of indifference, or sloth, Ireland is in adolescent rebellion, virulent and irrational. This was exploited by political interests hostile to Christian civilization, and their propaganda combined legitimate accusations against ecclesial failings with a left-wing, secularist agenda.
Ireland helped to bring the Faith to America, and when the flourishing of that Faith degenerated here, that donation was returned in the form of a bacillus. Ireland today has among the highest rates of suicide and mental illness in all Europe, and one-third of children there are born out of wedlock. Things are worse in the United States. Look at the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City to see what happens when the honor of a saint is dishonored, and when ambassadors for Christ become nothing more than goodwill ambassadors.
What happened in Ireland was not sudden. Like a dead elephant that remains standing for a short while before collapsing, so the Flame that Patrick kindled on Tara had died long before Catholicism was mixed up with political causes, and ethnic drollery replaced dogma. In mordant irony, just a few weeks ago the Stormont in Northern Ireland rejected a motion favoring same–sex unions, a motion more indicting for having been introduced by the Sinn Féin, which had long persuaded naïve Americans that it was a Catholic cause.
The Archbishop of Dublin, hardly a firebrand, said: “Marriage is not simply about a wedding ceremony or about two people being in love with each other. Marriage, in the Constitution, is linked with the family and with a concept of family and the mutuality of man and woman as the foundation for the family.”
In light of the fine invocation of the Irish Constitution, the Irish vote is worse than perverse: it is blasphemous. All the great saints of once-verdant Ireland would have used stronger language.
Fr. Rutler has one of the sharpest minds I’ve ever had the privilege to read or hear.
Thanks for posting. Loved “when Ambassadors for Christ become nothing more than goodwill ambassadors.”
This is not just an Irish issue. It’s a global revolution.
The multitudes are yawning through it, but our kids will have to deal with the rancid mess.
Bloody pagans. Obviously, St. Patrick missed more than a few snakes.
Ireland is a mess.
$17 million spent in promoting yes vote on Irish fake marriage referendum. All articles on this subject posted so far do suggest US groups were supporting and financing this travesty. But have not identified who and which they are.
John Paul would have gone to Ireland personally and led them away from this position. The present “pope” was A.W.O.L. because he supports Christianity in the same manner as our “president” supports Freedom. We have weak leaders, and the sheep stray. The predators are ready.
Did the much-publicized clerical sex abuse scandals have anything to do with destroying the RCC in Eire? The formidable father Rutledge dissembles. The RCC has this coming. Frankly, given the horrors of the child sex abuse scandal in Ireland and elsewhere, the real miracle is that the hot tempered Irish don’t have priests dangling from every lamppost in the country.
The vote was less in favor of inversion and more in hostility to a Church whose Jansenism and clericalism had incubated corruption and lassitude.
What happened in Ireland was not sudden.”
So true. The church has been dead there for 20 or 30 years at least. This is the a manifestation of that.
I highly recommend the Irish film "Calvary." Watch that flick to understand the mood of the Irish. It's not pretty. Lots of bristling anger toward the clergy. I share that anger. Denying that Irish anger toward the clergy is righteous, as Rutler does, is the very reason that the Church lost Ireland.
Father Rutler didn’t dance around anything. Your comments are typical for lapsed Catholics. Always find the worse in the faith and ignore the good.
How much more directly could he put it?
Perhaps instead of a generic statement against corruption he could have specifically mentioned the sins of child sexual abuse and, far worse, its coverup and enabling.
All to “protect the Church.” That worked well, didn’t it?
This is what happens to any organization when “the good of the organization” becomes more important than the reason the institution supposedly exists.
Protecting the Church became more important than protecting children. Christ said something about millstones and oceans. There are probably more than a few bishops down there now.
Similarly, protecting our public schools has become so important it must be done even at the cost of destroying the lives of the children they supposedly serve.
In the late 19th, the French Army sent an innocent Captain Dreyfuss to Devil’s Island to “protect the Army.” That didn’t work out well, either.
As I said, happens to any institution. But not every institution claims to be serving God.
Any wonder the Church is loathed in Ireland and the Irish people voted the way they did?
Given all that, how would you interpret the actions of Archbishop John Hughes and the behavior of the Irish Catholic immigrants in 19th century New York?
Just to be clear, what we're talking about it is homosexual pedophiles ensconced in their privileged positions in the Irish clergy molesting, raping, sodomizing and otherwise abusing Irish children.
Reading Rutler, you'd think we're talking about a priest or two with a gambling problem skimming from the collection plate. But of course the reality of the crimes of the Irish clergy is so heinous is infinitely worse. It would be like calling the Holocaust "political oppression."
Thus, Rutler dissembles, and indeed is engaged in the very minimization and even outright denial of the realities of the horrors inflicted on children by the "celibate" Irish clergy that lies at the very root of the problem.
I agree that I’m rather typical for a lapsed Catholic. Rather like the 60% of formerly zealously Catholic Ireland. If I may say, you’re rather typical as well. Never willing to look the real problem in the eye and insisting on long term solutions that might work. In short, the Pollyanna Party.
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