Posted on 08/14/2022 4:22:06 PM PDT by ebb tide
Ireland was once famous for dispatching Catholic missionaries to pagan lands. But now an increasingly secularized Ireland needs missionaries sent to it. The once-pious island has gone from saving civilization to losing it, plunging into a hedonistic culture that promotes “abortion rights” and the sexual revolution.
The repulsive New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd recently chortled that “Ireland and the United States have traded places.” In the past, she said, the Irish went to America for abortions. Now Americans after the collapse of Roe v. Wade will go to Ireland for them. Dowd sees this as great progress: “Ireland leaped into modernity, rejecting religious reactionaries’ insistence on controlling women’s bodies. America lurched backward, ruled by religious reactionaries’ insistence on controlling women’s bodies.” Never mind that abortion involves killing the bodies of the female unborn and poses a physical and psychological hazard to mothers.
The shameless abortion culture in Ireland that Dowd cheers is spreading rapidly. The few pro-lifers left on the island are an endangered species and may soon face criminal penalties for simply praying at abortion centers.
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Ping
It’s not ireland, it’s what you get when the Church stops teaching uncomfortable truth, which all truth is uncomfortable. Blame the priests and bishops and popes, shrinking violets all.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Irish-Saved-Civilization-Irelands/dp/0385418493
Lightweight, errors aplenty, but there are worse reads for a weekend afternoon.
Sad, sad, sad.
Many Irish Catholics were repulsed and alienated by the homosexual scandals involving clergy, seminaries, the Irish hierarchy and Catholic institutions. The Irish now openly embrace neo pagan epicurean hedonism and decadence.
I blame VC II, John XXIII and Paul VI, both of whom are now frankensaints in Frankenchurch.
How very sad.
I was taught by several Irish (SSJ) nuns in grade school. Wonderful women! Many had such a great sense of humor. One taught our class how to do the Irish jig! Gosh I miss them.
I was lucky enough to be able to find several of them about ten years ago at a retirement convent, and got to visit with them. Very faith filled wise women. Almost all of them have passed in the years between then and now.
They would be so sad to learn this.
Oh, it’s Ireland all right. Went from Eighth Amendment (protecting life of mother and unborn child equally) to Thirty-Sixth (parliament given permission to “legislate for abortion”) in a scant 35 years.
Agreed
At the same time, if you want to be a Catholic, be a Catholic and don’t hide behind anyone else’s failings for your own choice not to live up what you claim to believe. At least, that is how I see it. And yes, what has happened in Ireland is very sad. It does follow suit, only a couple decades behind, to the vast majority of the UK becoming total nonbelievers.
The Irish ate the Globalists’ Soup.
I reject my Irish heritage just as all of my recent ancestors did. They left that place long ago. I am 100% American.
I have studied a bit about Irish history and sure the English were brutal masters for many decades, centuries even.
All of that said, when Zero O’Zero went there a few years back and was warmly embraced by those 3rd world Pub denizens, I lost all interest in that place where the ‘C word’ is their most famous asset.
I got no time for Ireland, or pretty much any of Europe. Let them all reproduce through Islamic immigrants. Build more minarets and mosques all over the joint. For centuries Europe successfully repelled the Islamic hordes. Well they buttered their bread and now they can sleep in it.
I do not give a crap about Ireland.
I’m glad my ancestors left the place.
Note: A prohibition on killing babies is "uncomfortable".
But you're right.
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