Posted on 11/11/2017 7:50:21 PM PST by ebb tide
This past June it was announced that the new Irish prime minister would be conducting a referendum on the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland, to be held in 2018. This amendment, as it currently stands, enshrines protections for unborn children in Ireland. The general weakening of the Catholic faith in Ireland and the finger-wagging of the anti-life UN (Useless Nincompoops) are two factors.
The Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, along with other pro-life groups, are engaged in a battle to save not only countless Irish babies, but the vestiges of the Catholicism that at one time was so much a part of Ireland. The Catholic faith is still manifest in Ireland's Constitution, but the removal of protection of Ireland's babies will also serve to eviscerate all law in Ireland.
A few weeks ago, Father Marcel Guarnizo addressed a gathering in Ireland and discussed many ramifications of this heinous attempt to insinuate abortion into Ireland. Long-time readers of this blog will recognize Father Guarnizo as the priest who denied Holy Communion to a flagrant lesbian and who was excoriated by the progressive DC chancery.
The video is below. As you listen at the 43:54 mark, note how he said that when Church officials accept money from the state, then they are tethered to the whims of that state. It is entirely possible that he had in mind the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, who long ago sold out the faith for the money (our tax dollars by the way) bestowed on them by the feds. Father also mentioned that national conferences hold no authority over bishops. I wonder if those two truths voiced by Father were additional causes for his ouster from the Archdiocese of Washington 5.5 years ago. This video contains much to ponder as we pray for Ireland and for our own nations.
Fr. Marcel - Voting for abortion is an undemocratic, illegal act
They seem to love to re-do referendums in Ireland when the result the EU doesn’t like happened. The original referendum that established the Eighth Amendment was on September 7, 1983.
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