Posted on 03/01/2019 5:06:21 PM PST by marshmallow
LEICESTER, United Kingdom - Catholic hospitals in Ireland could be asked to remove crucifixes and other religious symbols from rooms with non-Catholic patients, according to a new report issued on Thursday.
The report was issued by an independent review group led by former European Union official Catherine Day, which was asked to look into the relationship between the Irish state and Church-run hospitals.
There are a dozen Catholic hospitals in the Republic of Ireland, all of which receive state funding.
“We recommend that organisations should be cognisant of the impact of decor on patients/service users and strive to ensure that their personal preferences in this regard are met to the greatest extent possible,” the Day report said.
Speaking to Newstalk FM, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said the report wasn’t going to force hospitals to remove religious symbols from the public areas of their facilities.
“It’s not a campaign from the Government or anyone around removing cribs or crucifixes or statues of Our Lady - that’s not what’s going to happen. But it is a message to charities and voluntary bodies that do run hospitals and schools just to have regard to these things,” he said.
“It is the 21st century, things have changed, a lot of patients, a lot of kids aren’t religious, maybe aren’t Roman Catholic, and the ethos of an institution that’s publicly funded should reflect the public, not just any one section of the public,” Varadkar told the radio station.
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Yeah - but they’ll happily take the bigoted medical care right?
Best to remove the religious symbols now that they’re in the baby murdering business. Wouldn’t want to add sacrilege or false witness sins to all the bloody butchering of the innocent and helpless,....
Translation: The Hospitals will be ORDERED to remove these religious symbols. Count on it.
When they say, ‘a lot of kids aren’t religious’ what they really mean is, there’s a lot of muzzis here and we must do what they say.
I know, some of that is secular, but ‘How is that “open borders” working out?’
To me, ‘asked’ means you can either say yes or no.
Reinhard Marx, a member of Bergoglio's "Gang o' Nine", now down to six. Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians comes to mind.
Well Ireland is no longer a Catholic country any way so what’s the problem?
But the hospitals are Catholic.
When are peoole going to start saying NO!
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