The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.
Posted on 05/26/2018 10:09:52 AM PDT by ebb tide
IRELAND: a post-mortem examination - by Roberto de Mattei (Revisited)
The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.
Ireland has been lost for decades. Ever since the 70s at least.
The Eighth Amendment was voted in back in 1983. So it wasn’t utterly lost in the 70s or even early 80s at least. The influence of the EU took a heavy toll on the island, morally speaking.
Life = Life was the position that passed by 66.9% back in 1985, when Ireland was a "modern, democratic society" and the Irish enthusiastically marched, cheered and voted for their pro-life Amendment 8. So it's not true that Ireland was "lost" from the 1970's. Pro-Life was, until very recently, a principle that expressed the proud Exceptionalism of the Irish nation, one that could win. It was, and it did.
Something disastrous has happened in Ireland in just the last 35 years.
As someone who has been to Ireland many times, knew many Irish boys in NYC, I stand by my opinion.
Don’t know what part of Ireland you were visiting, and “Irish boys in NYC” is not a measure for the whole island either. (I lived in Ireland.)
As things stand now, the only part of that island with an abortion ban is Northern Ireland.
Catholic Ireland is gone. Wonder what James Joyce would say.
Try travelling the entire country with special emphasis on Dublin.
Irish boys who worked in America didn’t represent anything of their country? That’s simply your opinion.
Something disastrous has happened in Ireland in just the last 35 years.
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The Catholic hierarchy!
No, actually. They didn’t. Such people were most likely left-leaning and wanted to escape the then-conservative Church-influenced atmosphere, relocating to liberal and libertine enclaves such as NYC where they could exercise their proclivities without so much societal disapproval.
I spent most of my life in Ireland in Dublin, BTW. There were many trashy inner-city locations, and bad suburbs such as Ballyfermot, Ballymun, Blanchardstown, Finglas and Tallaght, but the majority of the city and county was not like that. Of course, that was four decades ago, when people even riding the bus home from work would perform the sign of the cross at every church building the bus passed.
PS. I left out Cabra and parts of Crumlin. But even those weren’t all bad back in the day.
Couldn’t be the European Union, could it?
There was no antisemitism that I could perceive when I was living there. Nobody said crazy things against Israel. My late father did not have to conceal being Jewish.
Catholic Ireland follows the path of Catholic Quebec - all, then, in a flash, nothing.
So what was DeValeras revolution all about, anyway? In ten years, or less, there will be more Christianity in apostate England than in holy Ireland.
Is it something about Catholicism? Faith in an institution, in men as opposed to faith in God? Such a faith is built on sand.
But if there was no Catholic Church in Europe after Rome fell, no one today would know the name of Jesus the Christ.
They are drunkenly dancing in the streets in Ireland, celebrating the great, and unexpectedly massive, victory. But already the reception centers are full, with many more on the way from Africa and Asia, filling up and soon spilling over with people who do not lust to kill their babies.
The judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Wonder what James Joyce would say
He called his home a priest-ridden bog. Im sure he would be delighted.
Great post!
In October, 1979, Pope John Paul II's visit to the Republic of Ireland was described as, "The 59-year-old Polish Pontiff is coming to ensure that Ireland remains faithful to the Church of Christ and to honour the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, at Knock" by the Irish Independent.
In 1983, Ireland passed it's pro-life 8th amendment.
Fast forward to:
*March 2013 - Jorge Bergoglio is elected pope.
*May (the Month of Mary) 2015 - A referendum legalizes homo-marriage.
*May (the Month of Mary) 2018 - A referendum appears to have legalized voluntary abortion (infanticide).
Bergolio's silence on both of the latter referendums, his refusal to address the cardinals' dubia or the Filial Correction has been absolutely disgusting. He's more interested in communism, global warming hoaxes, artificial birth control and enabling muslim invaders of sovereign countries.
Polls just 3 weeks showed 92% Irish approval for the EU, with those aged 18-24 a full 97 per cent pro-EU.
How did the Irish keep their identity, their "Irish exceptionalism" through 350 years of Cromwell and his successors despising them, starving them and stomping them into the dirt, only to succumb to the EU crooning, "You'd be cooler if you were just like us, you know"?
Interesting image. Is that supposed to be Satan? Can you point to a passage in the Bible that describes him looking like that?
The Lord is watching Ireland and their recent vote to approve abortion.
They will pay for this wretched decision!
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