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Ireland's Revolution of Death - Do Not Call it Compassion
The Rock of Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tradition holds that St. Patrick converted the King of Munster here in the 5th-Century. In the following centuries, this remained the traditional seat of the Christian Kings of Munster. In 1101, the king donated the site to the Church; and the chapel which followed developed into a vast cathedral in the 13th-Century. In 1647, it was sacked by English Parliamentarian troops, who massacred both the Irish Confederate troops and the resident Catholic clergy. Today, it stands as a poignant reminder of the heights and wonders of Ireland's Catholic civilization.
UPDATE at 7pm UK Time: 12 minutes ago, the BBC has announced the fact that the pro-abortion vote has been carried by 66.4% to 33.6%. Their news is accompanied with images of exultant crowds, with cheering young women prominent amongst them. I don't know what they are cheering about. It is an evil day in Irish and world history. It only makes what follows more relevant. May God have mercy on us...
As I write this at tea-time on Saturday, counties in the Republic of Ireland are returning majority ''Yes'' votes, from the referendum on the 8th Amendment, with depressing regularity.
Although many pro-lifers seemed to concede defeat hours ago, and it seemed odd that many of the ''Yes'' voters were celebrating victory before counting even began, I have waited until now to make any comment as I have continued to hold out hope for a pro-life victory for as long as possible.
One of the more disturbing aspects of all this is to see - once again in such a struggle between the Culture of Death and the Culture of Life - so many people speaking in Orwellian sounding phrases, which attempt to empty the English and Irish languages of all rational meaning.
And so, we have the spectacle of politicians suggesting that the ''Yes'' vote is somehow a sign of ''compassion'' and ''cultural development''.
I mean seriously, have these people ever seen the brutal realities of what abortion truly is? Or the lives it destroys and those it also wrecks? Have they never heard of mortal sin, or even of post-abortion syndrome?
This is what makes the videos of people screaming to welcome ''Yes'' voters at Dublin airport, the photographs of smiling young mums voting ''Yes'' with babes in their arms, and the inane statements of so many politicians and pop stars so grimly disturbing and irrational.
To witness this is to be offended by the festering, yet sweetly sugar-coated, diabolical Hell of post-modern nihilism, in all its narcissistic violence.
This is the darkening of the intellect on a vast scale. It recalls the diabolical disorientaton, warned of by Sr. Lucia of Fatima.
I have been utterly flabbergasted by the sight of Senator David Norris, a man old enough to know better, grinning as he announces that, ''Ireland has changed. We are now firmly in the 21st Century.''
Oh, you are that, mate.
Then again, Sinn Fein's Mary Lou McDonald sounded more strangely Orwellian when she described the ''Yes'' landslide as ''a clear message of compassion and progress.''
Or how about Naomi Long's remarkable description of it as, ''a leap in the respect people have for women.''
Perhaps, though, none of these was as oddly creepy as Simon hαɾɾιs TD beginning a tweet with a smiley (!), before oozing, ''Will sleep tonight in the hope of waking up to a country that is more compassionate, more caring and more respectful.''
Really? I don't know how that fella sleeps nights. I really don't.
Look, let's say things as they really are, if the English and Irish languages are still to have any content whatsoever, in the midst of this ridiculous emptying out of meaning; which so typifies the post-modern collapse.
If you like:-
Call the ''Yes'' landslide Apostasy.
Call it a Betrayal of the Most Holy Trinity at the heart of the Irish Constitution.
Call it a kind of Blasphemy.
Call it an insult to Christ, Our Lady and the Irish saints, martyrs, missionaries and religious.
Call it cold Cold Blooded Murder.
Call it the chill embrace of the Culture of Death.
Call it Evil.
Call it False.
Call it the start of a h0Ɩ0cαųst of the Pre-Born.
Call it Collective Insanity.
Call it the ѕυιcιdє of a Nation.
Call it the Last Days of the Irish Republic.
But, do not have the temerity, the ignorance, or the downright, wretched arrogance to call it compassion, progress or respect!
No, not ever!
Some years ago, I remarked to my late friend Fr Mike Williams, may God rest his soul, that I could not understand the merry acceptance so many display when it comes to abortion. With the directness which so often typified his comments on matters of such gravity, he told me not to even try to understand it; for it is evil and one could only understand it by becoming a part of it. Best to be ignorant of such things and remain on the side of what is good.
I thought of that sound advice today when I tried to make sense of those merry makers cheering in videos as ''Yes'' majorities were announced from county after county, or perused on-line pictures of parents showing their small children collages made from ''Yes'' voting literature. In then end, I had to make the sign of the Cross and turn off the video as I observed young women screaming in adulation about the acceptance of something which will so offend God, destroy so many innocent lives, massively damage society, harden the hearts of many more men and women, and cause still other women to be used as mere playthings by the selfish lust of so many narcissistic men in these times of immaturity, non-commitment and excess.
Whilst it is clear that, as Save the 8th has charged, Google and others were denying the ''No'' vote advertising space, and we had a weird experience when our own web-security browser kept mysteriously blocking access to the Irish pro-life novena prayers, it is also difficult to know what to make of on-line discussion forum claims of older people being told they were not listed to vote, or else had ''D'' marked next to them to say they were not able to vote in the referendum, when they attended their local polling stations. I imagine that such complaints must be taken, with plenty of witnesses, to the nearest officers of the Gardai.
Again, I have to say that being a Catholic layman these days feels increasingly like being a parched and battle-weary bugler, calling in vain for reinforcements up on Custer Hill; or else as a tear-streaked Joey crying hopelessly for ''Shane'' across the desert.
I mean, for goodness' sake, when Alfie Evans was being forceably denied oxygen, fluid and nutrition, within a heavily cordoned and guarded hospital, I called out numerous times for our local Archbishop to get involved. I can't tell you how gutted I was to subsequently learn that, whilst he could not get down the road a few miles to support Alfie and his family, he had instead been over to Rome to speak about the case with Francis; and that he next managed to get the good priest who was helping the family unceremoniously booted out...
It is the same now with Francis and Ireland. One raises one's voice as best one can, only to find that Francis is ignoring the Irish landslide and tweeting safe little messages about love of God and neighbour. Well, let's make that concrete, shall we?
I've been thinking again this afternoon about the mysterious fact that, at the very moment that Our Lady appeared at Knock, on 21st August, 1879, She was facing silently towards both La Salette and Rome.
And, whilst elements of the overall La Salette apparitions dealt with prophecies of Rome, not without suppression by some authorities in the Church, Our Lady of La Salette was being officially given a Canonical Coronation on that very day. For that information, by the way, I am indebted to Gregory Johnson's series of articles on Knock at Tradition in Action.
This all seems to suggest that there is much more to the Knock apparitions than a mere feel-good, pop-culture kind of loveliness; which is how the shrine is too often presented these days... Clearly, this all needs prayerful discernment and ongoing reflection.
This is especially so, given the appearance at Knock also of the Lamb of God, St. Joseph, St. John of the Apocalypse and the angels; together with Ireland's present and tragic demise into a post-Catholic, Culture of Death. What was Our Lady really communicating to us in Her majestically, mysterious silence?
The ''Yes'' vote landslide is a massive disaster for Ireland, for the unborn, for the world and for the Catholic Church.
Whatever else that is, and whatever deeper message Our Lady was trying to convey at Knock, as at Fatima and other places, the acceptance of abortion is certainly not compassion. Neither is it progress.
I sincerely hope that the Irish bishops and priests will warn their people tomorrow that, to avoid sacrilegious communions, those who voted ''Yes'' to abortion must repent, confess and make restitution before next presenting themselves for Holy Communion.
Alas, too few did so when the ''same-sex marriage'' referendum happened almost three years ago this summer.
We must all STOP offending God and, from now on, live as real Catholics. It is time for mediocrity to cease. May God convert and forgive us all!
Catholic Ireland is Falling - May Our Lady of Knock - Save us!
One of my letters to Irish newspapers prior to referendum. Needless to say it was not published.
Dear editor,
Thank you for highlighting the delight of James Bond Daniel Craig and his wife actress Rachel Weisz at the news she was pregnant and had revealed they were thrilled to have a “little Human” on the way. “Daniel and I are so happy we are going to have a little human. We cannot wait to meet him or her,” your headlines reported. To see in print at this time a mother correctly refer to her conception as another human being has made me realise exactly what this government is doing when offering the people of Ireland the upcoming referendum in the hope they will abandon the 8th amendment to the Irish Constitution.
Recently, the Supreme Court ruled that nowhere else in the Irish constitution is an unborn “human being” protected. The 8thamendment is the only place where this “human right” exists, and if that is removed the unborn will have no rights under our constitution. Introducing a law that says after 12 weeks the government will offer some rights to “little humans” will, as witnessed in so many other countries, be extended to birth itself. What other consequences this loss of all rights for the unborn will have only God knows.
Were this referendum aimed at removing the different animal rights adhered to, even by law, in this country there would be riots in the streets, and rightly so. Were I to tell you animal rights have been included in the German and Swiss constitutions, and who knows but the EU may well make it compulsory here in Ireland. Imagine in a country like ours, who protect species like cormorants, toads, slugs and mussels, if this referendum gets passed, they will have more protection from the law than “little humans” up to 12 weeks and eventually up until they are born. Such thinking reminds me of the many such h0Ɩ0cαųsts of the past.
Yours sincerely,
Cassini.
TODAY'S MEDIA:
‘Nowadays, the vast majority of human beings in all countries are at the mercy of the newspapers for information about the world. And the newspapers mislead them atrociously. “Journalism,” writes G. K. Chesterton “is a false picture of the world, thrown upon a lighted screen in a darkened room so that the real world is not seen and the unreal world is seen… We live under secret government, conducted by a secret process called Publicity.”[1] (http://file:///C:/Users/JamesRedmond/Desktop/T.E.%20THE%20BOOK.doc#_ftn1)
‘A New York editor, John Swinton, during an annual dinner of the New York Press Association, declared: “There is no such thing as an independent Press in America [Europe etc.]. You know this and I know it. Not a man among you dares to utter his honest opinion. Were you to utter it, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print…The man who would be so foolish as to write his honest opinion would soon be on the streets in search of another job… these men pull the strings, and we dance. Our time, our talents our lives, our capacities are all the property of these men; we are intellectual prostitutes.”’[2] (http://file:///C:/Users/JamesRedmond/Desktop/T.E.%20THE%20BOOK.doc#_ftn2)
[1] (http://file:///C:/Users/JamesRedmond/Desktop/T.E.%20THE%20BOOK.doc#_ftnref1) G.K’s Weekly, December 3rd., 1932.
[2] (http://file:///C:/Users/JamesRedmond/Desktop/T.E.%20THE%20BOOK.doc#_ftnref2) Fr Denis Fahey: The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World, Regina Publications Ltd., Dublin, 1954, pp xi-xii.
PS, it is reported 89% of Irish youth (18-30) voted YES to abortion. The headliners of today's Irish newspapers are delighted with this 'historic vicrory.' 'IRELAND OPENS ITS DOORS TO ABORTION' says the IRISH INDEPENDANT, leaving no doubt as to what the majority of Irish voters have said YES to.
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The Druids Return to Ireland (http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/05/ireland-abortion-druids-john-horvat.html)
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by John Horvat (http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/author/jhovart)
(http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-28-at-2.54.01-PM-200x300.png) (http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-28-at-2.54.01-PM.png)The abortion referendum in Ireland is over, and many are devastated by the tragic outcome. Some now conclude that Ireland has surrendered to the secular European agenda. It has lost its Catholic identity. The progressives are now giddy with joy, proclaiming a new modern Ireland that has left behind the old.
However, there is nothing new in the present battle for the soul of Ireland. Throughout its history, the struggle for the Irish soul has always been over its Druids. Ireland only abandons the ardor of the Faith when it allows its hidden Druids to return and dominate.
What the Druids Believed
This is what has happened now. The Druid label fits perfectly on the political caste that has imposed divorce, same-sex “marriage,” and now abortion on the Emerald Isle. The diviners, charmers, priest, magicians, astrologists, and wizards of old were amazingly similar to their neo-pagan counterparts today.
The Druids’ principal doctrine supported a life without moral consequences since they believed the soul did not die but passed at death from one person to another. Although these frequenters of sacred oak groves are viewed as a priestly sect, they were quite secular. Their influence was much more social than religious since their role was mostly administrative and ceremonial. The Druids had no god of their own nor did they introduce any new divinity. They merely lived with the local gods as they were.
Finally, as a part of their duties, the Druids performed human sacrifices. It was their custom to have large wickerwork structures that were filled with people and then burned as part of their offerings to appease local divinities.
The Rise of the Neo-Druids
To those who have observed modern Ireland, these and other similarities make the Druid appear quite familiar. With the approval of abortion, modern Irish progressives are fully neo-Druids. With the killing of the unborn, they will lead the nation back to its cruel and barbarous origins. Likewise, they will be the bitterest opponents of Christianity, not to be appeased until the light of Christ is snuffed out. That is how it was in the past and is again today.
The battle for the Irish soul is over this return of the Druids. Abortion, same-sex “marriage,” and divorce are the important issues that dominate the headlines, but the core debate is the titanic clash between two opposing irreconcilable worldviews.
The Way to Fight Neo-Druids
This helps explains the devastating loss of the abortion referendum. Neo-Druids are not moved by emotional pleas for the lives of innocent unborn babies. They promote their immolation. Barbarians only think about gratifying their unbridled passions; they care little for whom they hurt. They follow their radical urges and are unimpressed by those who defend their views weakly or who are mired in mediocrity.
The only way to fight Druids is with the bold audacity that so characterized Saint Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland, and which even today molds the fiery Celtic souls of those he brought into the Church. The dark passions and superstitions of the neo-Druids must be denounced and overturned. The liberating true Faith must be presented with zeal and daring.
The Example of Saint Patrick
Indeed, such was the scene on that fateful Easter vigil in 433 when a decree went forth over the kingdom of Erin that all fires were to be extinguished until the signal fire on the Hill of Tara was lit by the Druids at the royal palace. At the opposite end of the valley, atop the Hill of Slane, Saint Patrick kindled a massive Paschal fire in defiance. The Druids implored the king to take action for they claimed the “fire will blaze forever in this land unless it be this very night extinguished.”
By God’s protection, all efforts to put out this fire or harm the missionary archbishop failed, and the saint boldly led a procession with miter and crosier, arrayed in full episcopal attire, to the Hill of Tara, where he confronted the Druids and put them to flight. The evangelization of Ireland began with this confrontation. Many of the Druids were so astonished that they requested Baptism.
What Impresses Druids
The example of Saint Patrick is full of lessons on how to deal with Druids and today’s neo-Druids. Druids are impressed by faith-filled certainty and conviction. They are intimidated by a manly courage that despises and challenges their myths and superstitions. They are marveled by ceremonial beauty. Above all, God showers His graces upon those who dare to confront the evils of the day. He blesses their actions. Such is the stuff of the legends and song that are so much a part of the poetic Irish soul.
Alas, this dramatic example was not heeded in the referendum on abortion. It was judged “prudent” that the Church play a subdued part in the debate over the taking of innocent lives. There were no dramatic challenges on the part of churchmen to denounce the promiscuous neo-Druid lifestyles that are so much a part of the abortion culture. There was no fire lit to illuminate the darkness of the postmodern wasteland that makes abortion so prevalent.
And that is why the center of the struggle for the Irish soul must always be over the return of its Druids. It is the only way Ireland will again be Catholic.
What is needed are fiery souls that will contest not just social issues, necessary for sure, but all the neo-Druid falsehoods that undermine the Faith. There must be an unapologetic proclamation of the Faith that defies the diktats of modern secular society. Ireland must implore Saint Patrick to raise new disciples who can rekindle the embers of Christianity that remain, so that the Pascal fire may yet continue to “blaze forever” on the Hill of Slane, and put the neo-Druids to flight.
There is no need to rig voting if you can work on the young and get them (and immigrants) to vote if you offer them material benefits. The good life is their objective and having opposite views to conservative parents is quite the norm. I have also heard retired folk in the UK during the Brexit vote say that they should not be voting because the outcome should concern the young more as it will be their world. And it would seem there has been a trend in Ireland for establishments to always get their way; the Irish mind is very flexible indeed!
Yes Wessex, 90% of under 30s voted yes. Indeed money was provided for air fares to yes voters outside of Irerland to get home to vote yes and then p..s off back abroad..
Here is a letter I sent to an Irish newspaper today.
Dear Editor,
Having read your article ‘Voting yes was a sin,’ may I say it was Catholic churchmen, from the silence of their pope and hierarchy in Rome and Ireland, with the exception of a few local pastorals around the country, and not the majority of people who voted for the introduction of abortion, who demonstrated the end of Catholic influence in Ireland after 1400 years. There is no doubt but that the majority of NO voters did so based on the moral issue involved, putting first the teaching of Jesus Christ, the creator of all. Alas, since Vatican II, these teachings have been so watered down, and the majority of churchmen have become so effeminate and ‘nice,’ that knowledge and obedience of God’s law has disappeared, more and more with each generation. Others, calling themselves The Association of Catholic Priests, ‘a kind of theo-ideological trade union,’ told parish priests to keep their mouths shut, and Fr Brian D’Arcy, the media’s favourite modernist priest tells the flock not to heed God’s law but ‘follow your own conscience.’
Now, after the vote of course, Bishop Kevin Doran tells Catholics who voted YES ‘knowing and intending that abortion would be the outcome’ (are Catholics now stupid, not knowing why they voted) to go to confession where ‘compassion’ will be shown to them. According to Catholic teaching, having deprived God knows how many aborted human souls of their ultimate destiny by God, Catholics can now get a quick-fix for themselves by going to confession the following day. In other words, they get to go to heaven having deprived other souls of heaven.
Perhaps now believers will know what Jesus meant when He said: ‘When I return, will I find faith on Earth?’