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Harold School , Glasthule. Co Dublin.

 

The chairman of the board of management at a primary school in Glasthule in Dublin has resigned after he arranged for pro-life leaflets to be distributed to students.
In a statement, Eddie Shaw said he had decided to resign from his post at the Harold School (above) and unreservedly apologised to teachers and parents for the deep distress and upset caused by his actions. The leaflets promoted the Vigil for Life rally which was held on the 8 June.

 

A primary school.

Primary school chairman resigns over distribution of anti-abortion leaflets (RTE)

Pic: Sandycoveglasthule.com

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On the second day of the June General Meeting of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Maynooth, the following statement has been issued.

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A time to reflect

On Saturday last, tens of thousands of women, men and children gathered in Dublin to express their support for the equal right to life of mothers and their unborn children.

We are at a defining moment for our country.

The Gospel of life is at the heart of the message of Jesus. He came that we may have life and have it to the full (Jn 10:10). The Gospel challenges us to work for a world in which the dignity and beauty of every human life are respected.

A time to uphold the right to life

The right to life is the most fundamental of all rights; it is the foundation of all other rights. No individual has the right to destroy life and no State has the right to undermine the right to life.

Yet the Irish Government is proposing abortion legislation that will fundamentally change the culture of medical practice in Ireland. For the first time legislation will be enacted permitting the deliberate and intentional killing of an unborn child. This represents a radical change. Every citizen, not just people of faith, should be deeply concerned.

We value the skill and efforts of our doctors, nurses and other care professionals who have helped to earn Ireland’s place as one of the safest countries in the world for mothers and their babies during pregnancy.

Catholic Church teaching is clear: where a seriously ill pregnant woman needs medical treatment which may put the life of her baby at risk, such treatments are ethically permissible provided every effort is made to save both the mother and her baby.

This is different from abortion, which is the direct and intentional taking of the innocent life of the unborn. No matter what legislation is passed in any country, abortion is, and always will be, gravely wrong.

A time for clarity and truth

The Government is under no obligation to legislate for the X case. People are being misled. We challenge repeated statements that this legislation is about saving lives and involves no change to the law or practice on abortion. Legalising the direct and intentional destruction of the life of an unborn baby can never be described as ‘life-saving’ or ‘pro-life’.

Contrary to clear psychiatric evidence, this legislation proposes abortion as an appropriate response to women with suicidal feelings during pregnancy. It is even possible to envisage as a result of this legislation the deliberate destruction of a child, who could otherwise be saved, right up to and including the moment of birth.

Furthermore, we challenge assurances that the proposed legislation will provide limited access to abortion. As published to date, the legislation will allow for a very wide margin of subjective professional assessment by which the deliberate destruction of an unborn baby can be legally justified. As we have learned from other countries, such legislation opens the door to ever wider availability of abortion.

We remain convinced that enhanced medical guidelines, which do not envisage the direct and intentional killing of the unborn, could provide the necessary clarity as well as a morally, legally and medically acceptable way forward. While good health can normally be restored, life, once taken, can never, never be restored.

A time for freedom of conscience

Freedom of conscience is a fundamental human right. A State that truly cherishes freedom will respect the conscience of its citizens, including its public representatives, on such an important human value as the right to life.

It is ethically unacceptable to expect doctors, nurses and others who have conscientious objections to nominate others to take their place. Neither should any institution with a pro-life ethos be forced to provide abortion services.

A time to decide: a time to act; a time to pray

We call on citizens to exercise their right to make their views known respectfully to our public representatives and to leave them in no doubt about where they stand on this issue.

We ask our public representatives to uphold the equal and inviolable right to life of all human beings, even if this means standing above other pressures and party loyalties.

We also invite our priests and people to continue to pray the Choose Life prayer at Mass and in the home that the dignity and value of all human life will continue to be upheld in this country.

Some mothers today are facing difficult or crisis pregnancies. Other people who have had, or who have assisted with abortions, may be re-living what happened in the past. They deserve to receive all the love, support and professional care that they need.

As Bishops we will join this weekend in prayerful solidarity with millions of Catholics all over the world in the Year of Faith celebration of Blessed John Paul II’s Encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life).

Every human life is precious, every human life is beautiful, every human life is sacred. Choose life!

A Statement From The Catholic Bishops (CatholicBishopsConference) 

Bishops say every citizen should be concerned about abortion legislation (RTE)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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Peter Mathews at the pro-life rally in Merrion Square, Dublin,  on Saturday.

Dublin South TD Peter Mathews told the Irish Independent: “I will do what I have to do and that is vote against the bill.”

…He made his pledge after Taoiseach Enda Kenny rejected a call from Diarmuid Martin, the Archbishop of Dublin, for TDs to be given a free vote on the contentious proposals.

Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin has given his TDs a free vote, although this was against his original wishes and was granted largely to avoid a damaging split in his parliamentary party.

 

 

FG TD Mathews breaks ranks on abortion and pledges to vote ‘no’ (Gareth Naughton, Irish Independent)

Pic via Liam Foley

604The “foetus itself is missing part or all of its brain” and has “almost no chance of survival”.

But…

The constitution in the majority Roman Catholic country protects the right to life “from the moment of conception”.

 

El Salvador court denies seriously ill woman abortion (BBC)

Pic: Trust.org

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Chris writes:

“I was at home in the living room at 10PM tonight with my girlfriend when we both heard something come through the letterbox at the front door. I was a bit startled as it was quite late and dark but became more concerned when I noticed through the window that whoever had posted the envelope was running away. When I looked out the window again it appeared that there were in fact several people running around posting these envelopes. What I got was the leaflet and envelope I’ve photographed and attached. I decided to chase after them and inform them that it was neither appropriate or sensitive to do so at that time especially for any households where there are elderly people living on their own. I spoke to a Garda who happened to be driving around the corner when I was on hot pursuit. She told that what they were doing wasn’t illegal but Jerry Buttimer might not be too pleased about it. I decided to try and find some of these thrifty postmen and women and eventually found a group of seven. I politely inquired if they were the people posting these letters and was astonished when all I got were blank stares. None of them would speak to me at all. When I then declared that it was like something from the Walking Dead or other zombie apocalypse scenario a man approached me to ask me what I was giving out about. He refused to give me his name or the name of the group but claimed that they could only do it by night because they ‘were being attacked’. I was about to get some answers when one of his silent drones appeared and dragged him away by the arm.”

“I decided to get my camera to photograph these people and approached one woman and asked what pro life group she was with. She then relaxed and said ‘Oh good, which group are you with? Are you one of us?’ I then photographed her and a man approached and asked what my concern was (he was also posting these envelopes). I told him that I was not happy about receiving junk mail at that hour as well as expressing my concern for the fact that his posters were fleeing when the posted the item in question. He claimed that he was the director of the group known as Cork Pro Life and that they had no choice but to do this by night. He gave me his first name (Kieran) but no other personal information. He then went on about their ’cause’ and assumed that I was a ‘Fine Gael’ man because of my ridiculing of his group’s activities. After he told me ‘my party was trying to force their views on the country’. I informed him that I was not affiliated with any party and that I disagreed with their (Cork Pro Life) views of for a number of other reasons. Can anyone here inform me of the legality of what they’re doing?”

Anyone?

NUbx993k7IgrP2This afternoon. Ahead of the Action on X rally.

He’s the poster boy of the pro-life movement.

Barry Corvo writes:

Just thought I’d share this with you. On Parnell St [Dublin], just after 3pm, a Hector look-a-like was tearing down Action on X rally posters at a fierce rate.

He was even wearing one of those nice red Life Institute/Youth Defence jackets. Seemed like he was on his way back to Castle Grayskull (60A Capel Street).

 

UPDATE.

At the rally an hour later…

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An oddly familiar pro-life protestor heckling and taking photos at the ‘Action on X’ rally.

Thanks Michael Stamp andredmum

Daly

“To have a man who spectacularly failed to protect children, who didn’t deign to pick up a phone and warn parents about the monster in their children’s midst, preaching about their protection is an affront to abuse victims, who were abandoned to the depravity of Smyth and clerics like him.

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“…Cardinal Brady is more prominent than ever and still oblivious to his own breathtaking hypocrisy. Has the Church learned anything? Does it know anything about humility, or repentance, or sensitivity? Clearly not, when the threat of excommunication is being hurled at those politicians who support legislation designed to save lives — women imperilled by pregnancy.”

“Was Brendan Smyth, who began abusing children in 1952, ever threatened with excommunication? When his decades of disgusting abuse were revealed, did excommunication occur to any senior cleric? Evidently not, because, after he died, just one month into a 12-year jail sentence, in 1997, he was buried in Kilnacrott Abbey and a headstone describing him as ‘reverend’ was erected.”

Colette Browne in today’s Irish Examiner.

Cardinal Brady was silent about child abuse. Now, he should be silenced (Irish Examiner)

Previously: Cardinal Daly: More Than Just A Note-Taker 

 

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Lidl had a run on pop sox.

Also: white stilettos (pic 8)?

On ‘trend’ if brazen.

Eamon Farrell writes:

Catholic Church stewards, Cardinal Sean Brady and ‘maidens’ carrying a statue of the Virgin Mary as they lead a Rosary Procession of about 3,500 for a “National Vigil of Prayer for Mothers and their Unborn Babys” at the Knock Shrine in County Mayo.

 

(Eamon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)