Despite there being no public evidence of a single transmission of Covid 19 in a Catholic church, the co-founder of the anti clerical Anglo Centric party Social Democrats, Stephen Donnelly, has today baselessly claimed that bishops are ‘putting lives at risk’.
In what the Irish Independent called a ‘blunt warning’, the former prolife politician and now pro abortion Minister for Health and ardent self proclaimed ‘feminist’, claimed that he ‘understood the frustration among people of religious faith and saluted the patience shown by church leaders of all denominations’.
This is despite the fact that his soon to be Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been seen repeatedly celebrating ‘Pride’ on the streets of Dublin over the summer, with Irish journalists working overtime to ignore the videos and images, having played down his breaking of restrictions last May when he was spotted drinking in the Phoenix Park. There was also the heavy establishment presence at the recent Festival of Sacrifice in Croke Park, which was presented as a totally acceptable event. They have also allowed Drag Shows to proceed, with children present.
The government have repeatedly twisted the knife on Catholics since accepting the bailout from the IMF over a decade ago. They shut down the Vatican Embassy, twisted the Mother and Baby Homes history to include something about babies being flung into a septic tank (without evidence) and in recent months have sent Drew Harris’s Gardai to intimidate Catholics in their places of worship, even surrounding Fr. PJ Hughes in Cavan in a China style show of strength as he said Mass. It is highly likely that they will attempt to do the same again before year’s end.
Donnelly is the founder of the Social Democrats, a party who have amongst other things suggested government regulation of Confession and banning prayer vigils near abortuaries. One of their TDs infamously claimed, before she was elected, that she would have an abortion for every minute given to the conclave in 2013.
More recently, the same TD expressed her confusion at Ireland’s restrictions on Mass being eased, when at the time they were the most draconian outside of China and North Korea.
Donnelly is no longer in the Social Democrats, but Fianna Fail. For some reason, many Catholics still vote for Fianna Fail despite their hard pro abortion positions and growing anti clericalism, as well as their active work in attacking the pro family policies of Hungary and Poland.
They have seen no problem allowing abortion clinics to continue and to allow wedding numbers to resume to 100 while limiting funeral numbers and outright forbidding Communions and Confirmations.
Now is the time to get behind your bishops and priests, when the next lockdown comes a scapegoat will be needed and you can bet that they will be high on the government’s list for blame. This is not the Ireland that you grew up in, to be am Irish Catholic now is to be considered hostile to the Irish State itself.
Ironically, Communions and Confirmations have taken place as normal in the United Kingdom, meaning that there are areas in Northern Ireland where they can happen but not minutes away across the border. The Irish government have also had no problem with tens of thousands travelling each weekend to Belfast and other places for partying. Only the most gullible would accept this ban as being sincere.
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