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John Grace · « **on:** September 27, 2013, 07:59:48 AM »

http://europeanlifenetwork.blogspot.ie/2013/09/the-journal-reported-wednesday.html

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Catholic Mater Hospital to comply with new abortion law
--> The Journal reported Wednesday, September 25th, that Dublin’s Mater Hospital has issued a statement to say it will comply with the laws provided for the in the new Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013. If anyone was in any doubt about the implications of the new law on abortion and how it will be implemented this statement by Mater Hospital should ring warning bells.

The Journal article reads;

Following ‘careful consideration’ of the new legislation, the hospital said its priority is to be at the “frontier of compassion, concern and clinical care for all our patients”.
“Having regard to that duty the hospital will comply with the law as provided for in the act,” it concluded in the brief note.
The article continues, (C) concerns had been raised last month when one of the members of the hospital’s board of governors and board of directors told the Irish Times that the Mater could not comply with the laws.
“The Mater can’t carry out abortions because it goes against its ethos,” Fr Kevin Doran said. “I would be very concerned that the Minister [for Health, James Reilly] sees fit to make it impossible for hospitals to have their own ethos.”
The Mater is one of 25 ‘appropriate institutions’ named in the act where legal terminations can take place when a woman’s life is in jeopardy.
Meanwhile, the Department of Health has said the Act has still not commenced.

So what happened? What has caused this change of heart? One has to ask, did Minister for Health James Reilly or one of his minions, see fit, as Fr Kevin Doran feared, to make it impossible for this Catholic Hospital, and by extension every Catholic Hospital, to have their own ethos?

This actually begs further questions. Are we now living in a dictatorship and a very anti Catholic one at that? Are we entering into a new phase of penal laws, this time not imposed by a foreign power but by our own people?

I have news for James Reilly and for Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Our sons and daughters are precious human beings, our own flesh and blood. We will not permit you to take their lives for any reason let alone the imposition of an ideology or the dictates of our European masters. We will not bow down to your tyranny, we will resist in every possible, lawful, way and ‘we shall overcome some day’. We will work to change your unjust laws but we shall do so justly. Truth always prevails in the end

John Grace · « **Reply #1 on:** September 27, 2013, 08:04:57 AM »

With the exception of Youth Defence, the rest of the pro-life groups in Ireland kept themselves on the reservation. Things are changing and a new type of militant has emerged.

Hopefully the pro-life groups do not waste any money on court cases as the abortion industry would only be delighted with them losing money.

The schools and hospitals are Catholic in name only.

The Sisters of Mercy, all elderly liberals gave up the fight years ago. They don't care. No young women are joining them and each year the Mercy order are bidding farewell to Irish towns, where they were established for over a hundred years.

John Grace · « **Reply #2 on:** September 27, 2013, 08:17:43 AM »

The majority of Irish people, in their wisdom, do not vote.

John Grace · « **Reply #3 on:** September 27, 2013, 08:22:34 AM »

The preamble of the Irish Constitution shouldn't be forgotten.

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In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority and to Whom, as our final end, all actions both of men and States must be referred,
We, the people of Éire,
Humbly acknowledging all our obligations to our Divine Lord, Jesus Christ, Who sustained our fathers through centuries of trial,
Gratefully remembering their heroic and unremitting struggle to regain the rightful independence of our Nation,
And seeking to promote the common good, with due observance of Prudence, Justice and Charity, so that the dignity and freedom of the individual may be assured, true social order attained, the unity of our country restored, and concord established with other nations,
Do hereby adopt, enact, and give to ourselves this Constitution.

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #4 on:** September 27, 2013, 08:51:49 AM »

Quote from: John Grace

With the exception of Youth Defence, the rest of the pro-life groups in Ireland kept themselves on the reservation. Things are changing and a new type of militant has emerged.

Hopefully the pro-life groups do not waste any money on court cases as the abortion industry would only be delighted with them losing money.

The schools and hospitals are Catholic in name only.

The Sisters of Mercy, all elderly liberals gave up the fight years ago. They don't care. No young women are joining them and each year the Mercy order are bidding farewell to Irish towns, where they were established for over a hundred years.

Sisters of Mercy here in America are liberal. It is so sad.

Capt McQuigg · « **Reply #5 on:** September 27, 2013, 11:16:25 AM »

Looks like Ireland is going the way of all flesh.

Before Vatican II, 90% of Irish Catholics attended the Traditional Latin Mass weekly.

Now, circa 2013, even "Catholic" hospitals are providing abortion services.

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #6 on:** September 27, 2013, 12:08:16 PM »

Quote from: John Grace

The preamble of the Irish Constitution shouldn't be forgotten.

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In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority and to Whom, as our final end, all actions both of men and States must be referred,
We, the people of Éire,
Humbly acknowledging all our obligations to our Divine Lord, Jesus Christ, Who sustained our fathers through centuries of trial,
Gratefully remembering their heroic and unremitting struggle to regain the rightful independence of our Nation,
And seeking to promote the common good, with due observance of Prudence, Justice and Charity, so that the dignity and freedom of the individual may be assured, true social order attained, the unity of our country restored, and concord established with other nations,
Do hereby adopt, enact, and give to ourselves this Constitution.

What an awesome constitution.

soulguard · « **Reply #7 on:** October 12, 2013, 06:25:09 AM »

I got surgery done in the Mater Misericordiae hospital before. It is a huge Victorian era building that expanded into new modern office blocks. The hospital used to be run by the church, but now, directly because of Vatican 2 ( the downfall in vocations, and the new ideology saying that lay people should take over church functions) the hospital is run by ordinary people. I think the church just owns the building, but the hospital is funded by the government.

There is also a Mater private hospital not far from it which is not funded by Gov and that was never run by the church. for rich only.

poche · « **Reply #8 on:** October 12, 2013, 06:28:21 AM »

Quote from: John Grace

http://europeanlifenetwork.blogspot.ie/2013/09/the-journal-reported-wednesday.html
Quote
Catholic Mater Hospital to comply with new abortion law
--> The Journal reported Wednesday, September 25th, that Dublin’s Mater Hospital has issued a statement to say it will comply with the laws provided for the in the new Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013. If anyone was in any doubt about the implications of the new law on abortion and how it will be implemented this statement by Mater Hospital should ring warning bells.

The Journal article reads;

Following ‘careful consideration’ of the new legislation, the hospital said its priority is to be at the “frontier of compassion, concern and clinical care for all our patients”.
“Having regard to that duty the hospital will comply with the law as provided for in the act,” it concluded in the brief note.
The article continues, (C) concerns had been raised last month when one of the members of the hospital’s board of governors and board of directors told the Irish Times that the Mater could not comply with the laws.
“The Mater can’t carry out abortions because it goes against its ethos,” Fr Kevin Doran said. “I would be very concerned that the Minister [for Health, James Reilly] sees fit to make it impossible for hospitals to have their own ethos.”
The Mater is one of 25 ‘appropriate institutions’ named in the act where legal terminations can take place when a woman’s life is in jeopardy.
Meanwhile, the Department of Health has said the Act has still not commenced.

So what happened? What has caused this change of heart? One has to ask, did Minister for Health James Reilly or one of his minions, see fit, as Fr Kevin Doran feared, to make it impossible for this Catholic Hospital, and by extension every Catholic Hospital, to have their own ethos?

This actually begs further questions. Are we now living in a dictatorship and a very anti Catholic one at that? Are we entering into a new phase of penal laws, this time not imposed by a foreign power but by our own people?

I have news for James Reilly and for Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Our sons and daughters are precious human beings, our own flesh and blood. We will not permit you to take their lives for any reason let alone the imposition of an ideology or the dictates of our European masters. We will not bow down to your tyranny, we will resist in every possible, lawful, way and ‘we shall overcome some day’. We will work to change your unjust laws but we shall do so justly. Truth always prevails in the end

So, who runs this hospital?