Lebanon’s Catholic leaders are asking for help – How you can help On the evening of Tuesday 4 August, two explosions at the port of Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut sent an enormous shockwave across the city killing over 200 people and leaving more than 5,000 injured. Rescue workers are still searching for many more missing people and parts of Beirut are now uninhabitable. “We ask for your support for our brothers and sisters at this difficult time and in response to this catastrophe,” said the statement, signed by Bishops Gregory Mansour of the Eparchy of St. Maron of Brooklyn and A. Elias Zaidan of the Eparchy of Our… Read More
Continue ReadingMinister for Children resignation letter templates
Call on Roderic O’Gorman to resign immediately from his position as Minister for Children. Please use the two options below to write to your local TDs and Ministers in the current government. Customise the options to your own unique wording We urge you to write also to Eamon Ryan, leader of the Green Party and call on him to remove Roderic O’Gorman from his position as a Minister. 1. I write to you, as my local TD, to express my grave concerns about the views and opinions expressed by the new Minister for Children. As a list of priorities, he mentioned lowering the age at which children can move from… Read More
Continue ReadingDestruction of our Christian (and Nationalist) Heritage and Tradition.
Our Irish political class, media and elite think Christianity is a spent force, that they know “better” and further are disrespectful and even angrily dismiss it when mentioned. Their message is that the people will no longer be regarded as independent transcendent human beings made in the image of God, but are instead pliable materially bound creatures that need to be “ruled / governed!” by them. They view us as no longer deserving of self – governance and need to be taken “care” (control?) of by them, and in return we are required to acknowledge that they are now our primary masters in thought, word and deed. The political class… Read More
Continue ReadingSummary of proposals re Relationships and Sexuality Education in Ireland
There are currently two different Sex Education proposals in process in the Oireachtas 1) Provisions of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018 Proposals include: equal treatment of LGBTI sexuality; contraception and abortion dealt with on a factual basis to be delivered regardless of the (religious) ethos of a school. This is a Private Members’ Bill going through the Dail sponsored by Solidarity–PBP TDs. The Bill has so far received all-Party support in the Dail and has radical sex education proposals. i) The next Stage of the Sex Education Bill is Committee Stage at the Select Committee on Education and Skills which comprises 7 TDs chaired by FF TD Fiona O’Loughlin. There… Read More
Continue ReadingComprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) Programmes
Kinsey Institute CSE originated with Alfred Kinsey who engaged in criminal experimentation on children and collected data from some of the world’s most notorious pedophiles to arrive at his conclusions. Kinsey founded the Kinsey Institute in 1947 and together with Playboy and Planned Parenthood, created the Sexuality Information and Education Council (SIECUS) in USA in 1964, which has become the most significant driving force behind the CSE pornographic sexuality education. Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) programmes CSE programmes seek to change the sexual norms of society, are pornographic in nature, promote sexual rights at the expense of sexual health, and generally promote the following – –Promote sexual pleasure as a right… Read More
Continue ReadingDivorce Referendum 2019 – Vote “NO”
The Referendum if passed will give all future power to our politicians to legislate for Divorce without any restraint; while a reduction from the current 4 year waiting period living apart from 4 years to 2 years is being proposed by the Government in legislation now, nothing would stop them legislating for ‘quickie divorces’ in the future. If the 4 year waiting period is removed it would further weaken the social commitment to Marriage in Ireland, which is already seriously weakened by the culture of individual choice. Cohabitation has increased fivefold in Ireland since 1996 when Divorce was introduced and 35% of children in Ireland are now non-marital, 40% in… Read More
Continue ReadingThe European and Local Elections 2019
The European and Local elections will take place on Friday May 24th. In addition, we will be asked to change our Constitution on Divorce. We would like to make the following observations: This country is in a precarious state, as follows: The continued attack on the family with the referendum proposals on Divorce, which would further weaken marriage in Ireland; 35% of children in Ireland are non-marital and 40% in the Greater Dublin area, with all the negative impacts this will have on their lives. Christian values are being increasingly persecuted e.g. proposals to remove all Christian symbols from hospitals, such as Crosses which provide consolation to ill and dying… Read More
Continue ReadingPastoral message of Bishop Kevin Doran to the people of the Diocese of Elphin in advance of the local and European elections and the referendum on the regulation of divorce
“The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. Indeed, nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo in their hearts.” This is the powerful opening statement of the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, which comes from the Second Vatican Council. To put it very simply, in other words, Christians must take an active interest in anything which contributes to or undermines the common good. That is why, even though politics is often frustrating… Read More
Continue ReadingStatement by Bishop Brendan Leahy on the marriage referendum
Don’t let referendum go without conversation on marriage – urges Bishop Leahy Monday, 20 May 2019: Bishop of Limerick Brendan Leahy has said that it would be shame to just tick a box for the upcoming referendum on divorce law without first considering the social context and challenges that marriages face today. In a statement ahead of this weekend’s referendum, Bishop Leahy said that it is important from a Christian faith perspective to vote but that there has been all too little discussion about the divorce referendum. And he asked for consideration to be given to establishing an agency specifically dedicated to marriage, the promotion of healthy marriages and support… Read More
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