Despite still hoovering up an obscene amount of prolife and Catholic votes in each election, Ireland’s ruling Fianna Fail party have in recent months turned their ire against both groups of their base.
First there was the instruction to law enforcement to surround entire villages in order to prevent Mass from taking place earlier in the year (on the same weekend that international sport events were taking place in Dublin), then there was the legislation which rendered outdoor Confession and Communion on the tongue as illegal and finally there was the the suggestion that the party needed to become even more pro abortion in order to bring about a reversal in plummeting voter approval ratings.
The party are now seeking to turn the screw further on its Stockholm Syndrome suffering Catholic and prolife base, by banning prolife prayer near abortuaries, an almost unheard of infringement against human rights in Europe. Despite Garda Commissioner Drew Harris insisting that current legislation on public order is sufficient to deal with such vigils, a caucus led by failed Fianna Fail politician Fiona O’Loughlin is seeking to ban Catholics from praying at such venues.
The Oireachtas Women’s Caucus sent a letter to Fiona O’Loughlin, who was rejected by voters but taken care of by Fianna Fail with a Senator position, which outlined their desire to see prolife prayer vigils banned from taking place. The letter was then passed on to self avowed ‘feminist’ and Social Democrats founder Stephen Donnelly, who has stated that he is ‘fully committed’ to having prolifers and Catholics banned from praying for an end to abortion near places where babies are destroyed in the womb.
The move to get the letter published was led by members of the Green Party, who share a special bond with their ruling Fianna Fail colleagues, having weathered the storm to force the bank bailout on the Irish people in the past decade. This pro usury act of totalitarianism was a significant part of Ireland’s decade of death, which saw birth rates successfully reduced by a quarter and abortions increase to 6,000 plus a year. Both parties were recently involved in a widely criticised rule which permitted government camera crews into Maternity Hospitals during lockdown, while keeping fathers out of the building, regardless of the condition of the mother.
Anyone who has ever come across any of these prolife vigils will know that they are prayerful, quiet and unassuming. Most actually take place on the weekends when the GPs in question are not even open. The insinuation that anything untoward is taking place there is really just the guilty conscience of the Green Party and Fianna Fail nagging at them, perhaps in the knowledge that they have caused around 15,000 abortions since 2019, not to mention many more in the decade preceding thanks to their anti family cutbacks in the service of the banking system.
Catholics and the wider community of those who oppose abortion must take their vigils directly to the Dail if this ban takes place. They should also respond in kind and make sure that Fianna Fail are denied the opportunity to stage their notorious ‘church gate collections’, where anti Catholic politicians seek financial contributions from Massgoers who mindlessly fund their own persecution out of some misplaced sense of loyalty to a party that no longer exists except in name only.
The voters roundly rejected pro abortion Fianna Fail TDs in the past year and a half and it seems likely that they will continue to do so. The party appear to have chosen abortion as the issue that eventually brings about their demise and they have chosen to pummel people of faith in the process.
Like all who have tried similar in the past 2,000 years, it will be in vain.
