There are growing concerns over the involvement of the Irish Catholic Church in events organised and attended by the Far Left.
It comes after Dominican Sisters in Cabra and a number of friars attended a Far Left march in Dublin.
The event was organised by Le Cheile, a broad spectrum of left wing groups with some on the very Far Left.
One of those involved with the organiser’s inception was involved with a controversial deliberately blasphemous poster campaign that took place on Saint Patrick’s Day and Easter, these included images of Jesus Christ and Saint Patrick covered in semen.
Other controversial aspects of the group include having Anthony Flynn as a founding member.
Flynn was known for creepily following Catholic processions in his car and filming citizens taking part before posting to social media in order to incite anti Catholic hate.
He died in a suspected suicide after being accused of misusing charity funds to drug and rape homeless men.
Others involved with the organisation have called for the seizures of church lands as well as the removal of the church from public life.
You can imagine our surprise when we saw Dominican Sisters (and it appears, at least one priest) taking part in a rally organised by the group only last week.
In his article in The Irish Catholic, David Quinn quoted the Cabra Sisters as saying ‘We have differences but we’re just human beings and we want justice for all. We must work together’’.
What were they working together for? It is hard to know. There appears to have been been a loose suggestion of support for Palestine and for the government’s immigration policies, but little else seemed clear.
Quinn referred to the march as ‘incoherent’, due to the disparate links and beliefs of those marching.
It was certainly atypical of the Dominicans in Ireland, who are known for their youthful and plentiful vocations as well as for their orthodoxy in liturgical and doctrinal matters. This certainly seems the exception rather than the norm for Dominicans, but it is becoming a more regular occurrence in the church at large.
In 2020, Trocaire (the bishops’ charity) and Synodal group We Are Church both attended a rally in Dublin alongside Saoradh, the alleged political wing of the New IRA.
This occurred only weeks after the killing of journalist Lyra McKee, for which they had been implicated.
With clergy walking on eggshells for fear of being seen to be socially conservative or being involved in so called culture wars, one wonders how charities are entitled to cavort with the far left (even with far left militants) and then given pride of place at Synodal meetings while others are excluded?
