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Post by Young Ireland on May 13, 2023 12:36:24 GMT
This article from the GUARDIAN is an example of how the terrible tragedy of Ann Lovett is still being weaponised to promote abortion here and further afield. Note the self-congratulation about how Ireland is now more "modern" than those backward Americans who are still influenced by "the religious right". www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/09/film-ireland-abortion-rules-ann-lovettAnd of course the doctor interviewed was also on NPHET and ironically one of the more hawkish advocates of lockdowns. Yet when it comes to abortion, her attitude is the complete opposite in that she is totally indifferent to the lives lost through abortion. She wasn't the only such person managing Ireland's Covid respose btw, and it goes to show the attitude towards the abortion issue among the chattering classes here.
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Post by Young Ireland on Apr 21, 2023 17:46:47 GMT
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Post by Young Ireland on Jan 29, 2023 20:36:13 GMT
I have just acquired a copy of Issue 14 [no date] of Gemma O'Doherty's rag THE IRISH LIGHT. In general I have merely glanced at previous issues as they struck me as being full of paranoid fever swamps into which I don't care to venture. Issue 14, however, is positively evil. On p.17 we find Gemma holding forth about "TAlmudic gaslighting" and attributing mass immigration to "the Jewish Kalergi Plan for world domination" (Count Coudenhove-Kalergi was a mid-C20 advocate of a single European state. He was part-Jewish; he was also part-Japanese, so will we next be told that he was acting on behalf of the Learned Elders of Nippon?) She quotes E Michael Jones to the effect that Jews are behind most revolutionary movements because of their rejection of Jesus, and bashes immigrants for having their own shops and eating foods from their countries of origin. It gets worse; pages 26 and 27 are devoted to an exposition of the PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION, the notorious forgery which claims to outline a plan for Jewish world domination. This stuff helped to bring about pogroms in Russia and the Middle East, as well as the Nazi genocide. Gemma O'Doherty has just joined Justin Barrett on my list of people for whom I wouldn't even cast a protest vote, as a matter of principle. Nothing but harm can come from this. That stuff, awful as it is, barely scratches the depths to which Gemma as sunk. I've seen at least one video where O'Doherty explicitly denies the Holocaust. I'm not going to link to her site, but there are several examples on her site if anyone has the stomach to look.
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Post by Young Ireland on Jan 10, 2023 22:40:10 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Cardinal George Pell, who has died. More details to follow.
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Post by Young Ireland on Jan 10, 2023 21:49:16 GMT
Well, you learn something new everyday. I had never come across the Benedictine altar setup before, it seems like a very good idea in princple. Only thing is how difficult it would be to implement it in some churches. Given the amount of money spent on renovating churches, often for ideological purposes, this may not necessarily be a barrier in itself.
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Post by Young Ireland on Oct 18, 2022 20:02:09 GMT
I've noticed that Catholic classical schools have been set up in Cork and in Limerick. This is a very positive development in those cities, but it's suprising that Dublin hasn't been able to get one off the ground yet, seeming as it has a much greater critical mass of practicing Catholics than Cork and Limerick combined.
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Post by Young Ireland on Oct 18, 2022 19:54:46 GMT
Well, resorting to internet matchmaking is hardly a good idea either. I wouldn't go quite that far, as someone who has dated over the Internet in the past. Certainly, you need to have your wits about you, but there's no reason that it cannot work out if both parties are sincere. If anything, in some cases it could actually be easier to find a practicing Catholic spouse online than off it.
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Post by Young Ireland on Jul 18, 2022 21:43:41 GMT
As is now the norm, the National Party were out in force again for the Rally for Life, with their youth wing handing out leaflets declaring that "Ireland's Families are Ireland's Future". What was different this time is that a month earlier, one of the NP's official accounts had published a tweet defending the practice of eugenics in principle: As a result, I asked a number of the leafleters it this was actually NP policy. One waved me away, saying that he did not want to get into a debate, while another referred me to a third individual, who confirmed that the NP were indeed pro-eugenics. When I pressed him on how eugenics is leading to the mass abortion of Down Syndrome babies, and historically to sterlisations of those deemed "unfit", he did say that the party did not support these, which I fully accept. Instead, he said it was about good nutrition and exercise. This may well be the case, but these practices are called living a healthy lifestyle, and is good regardless of its effects on the "race". Calling it eugenics, which has a much darker history, will only lead to confusion, and gives the impression that the likes of Marie Stopes and Margaret Sanger had the right ideas, but went about it the wrong way. ADDENDUM: I should also add that when questioned whether or not those not meeting the ideal would be considered "inferior", the NP member said no, of course not. As an aside, I read Helen Joyce's remarks and there is nothing about eugenics in it. She has deliberately been misconstrued by the rainbow brigade in order to close her down. Joyce is a very articulate advocate against the idea of men becoming women just because they feel it, and she is against their push to compel us all to validate and celebrate their fantasies. Joyce is Irish, one of her brothers was captain of Ireland cricket team. She is an atheist, her analysis is very good but she fell in my opinion when she criticised Matt Walsh's recent video 'What is a woman'. She said that it was a good video but marred by the fact that Walsh is a conservative Catholic and therefore a sexist because he has criticised feminism. A pretty big assumption to make and one that doesn't help her logic as she herself (rightly) rails against being misrepresented. You're right Assisi, having come across her original remarks, she actually said that she wanted to reduce the number of people "transitioning" - which is desirable not just for moral reasons but because multilating one's body in such a manner irreversably is bound to have lifelong consequences. It certainly cannot be considered a defence of eugenics in any shape or form.
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Post by Young Ireland on Jul 11, 2022 21:32:58 GMT
With Boris stepping down, Right To Life in the UK have drawn up this handy list of candidates ranked by their record on abortion. On abortion alone, the obvious preference has to be for Rehman Chishti, however he doesn't have any candidates backing him. Of the more likely candidates, Jeremy Hunt has the strongest pro-life record, but the frontrunners are much less promising on the abortion/euthanasia front - the three leading candidates have a single pro-life vote between them - Tom Tudgenhat's vote against euthanasia in 2015. Not very promising then, I must say... righttolife.org.uk/news/leadership-candidates-abortion
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Post by Young Ireland on Jul 6, 2022 21:56:58 GMT
As is now the norm, the National Party were out in force again for the Rally for Life, with their youth wing handing out leaflets declaring that "Ireland's Families are Ireland's Future". What was different this time is that a month earlier, one of the NP's official accounts had published a tweet defending the practice of eugenics in principle:
As a result, I asked a number of the leafleters it this was actually NP policy. One waved me away, saying that he did not want to get into a debate, while another referred me to a third individual, who confirmed that the NP were indeed pro-eugenics. When I pressed him on how eugenics is leading to the mass abortion of Down Syndrome babies, and historically to sterlisations of those deemed "unfit", he did say that the party did not support these, which I fully accept. Instead, he said it was about good nutrition and exercise.
This may well be the case, but these practices are called living a healthy lifestyle, and is good regardless of its effects on the "race". Calling it eugenics, which has a much darker history, will only lead to confusion, and gives the impression that the likes of Marie Stopes and Margaret Sanger had the right ideas, but went about it the wrong way.
ADDENDUM: I should also add that when questioned whether or not those not meeting the ideal would be considered "inferior", the NP member said no, of course not.
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Post by Young Ireland on Jul 6, 2022 21:37:34 GMT
There was a very strong Aontú presence at the Rally, with banners representing the various county delegations, while Aontú member Becky Kealy acted as the MC for the event.
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Post by Young Ireland on Jul 4, 2022 21:15:37 GMT
To try and bring some life back into this forum, I'm going to continue a long-standing tradition and give my comments of the recent Rally for Life that took place last Saturday.
Attendance was considerably smaller compared to previous rallies (I'd estimate around 3-5,000 in total), but those who did come along braved some very heavy showers along the route, which eventually gave way to sunshine. Archbishop Eamonn Martin was present, and Fr. McKevitt (who has now retired from Alive!) gave a short speech before the rally, as did an American priest whose name I wasn't aware of. Several preists were at the rally, inlcuding some traditional priests wearing cassocks. I also met Hibernicus and spoke with him briefly. He felt that the rally was perhaps too religious in tone, but perhaps this was due to the smaller crowd making this more obvious than previously. Whatever the case, there were at least a dozen of more Tricolour flags with the Sacred Heart in the middle, mimicing the practice among some French Catholics. I believe that TFP held a Rosary rally around Parnell Square as well before the main event.
The Rally itself was delayed for half an hour for some reason, but finally got going at around 2:30. As we made our way down O'Connell Street, there was little in the way of pro-abort counter protests, though a few passers-by did shout slogans at the crowd, but most complaints came from people annoyed at being unable to cross the road. Otherwise, the procession was mostly smooth and uneventful, ending at Custom House Quay as was the case in 2019.
There were a wide range of speakers present on the day, perhaps wider than at previous rallies. One thing that stood out was that there seemed to be much more of an effort to link-in with the movement in Britain this time around, with two speakers from London (one from Abortion Resistance and the other a pro-life doctor who helps distribute abortion-reversal pills to women who change their mind), as well as a message and advertisement for the UK March for Life in Birmingham in September. This is a very positive development, as a stronger pro-life movement in the UK will make things easier here and closer co-operation absolutely makes sense.
Obviously, we were all delighted at the overturn of Roe in the States, and this was a major theme of the rally, that where America led, both parts of Ireland would follow. A message of support from the US March for Life was played to the crowd.
Domestically, the speaking lineup was pretty much standard: Peadar Toibin and Carol Nolan (Mattie McGrath couldn't make it due to a bereavement), Vicky Wall from Every Life Counts, Dr. Cleary from Doctors for Life, Bernie Smyth from Precious Life in the North, Ben Scallan from Gript and finally Niamh Ui Bhriain from the Life Institute (apologies if I left anyone out!)
More reflections to follow in the coming days.
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Post by Young Ireland on May 1, 2022 15:50:41 GMT
It's amazing how quickly we get used to the ongoing bloodbath on the continent, and the genuine possibility of a worse catastrophe. One striking detail is that Russian official sources have been putting out propaganda making the following claims (among others); - Anyone who believes Ukrainians are a different nationality from Russians is a Nazi and must be denazified. - The Russian invasion is actually an act of decolonisation as it is rescuing the Ukrainians from the illusion that the European option is a good thing. - The strength of Ukrainian resistance merely shows that the whole population is in the grip of Nazi psychosis, like the population of Nazi Germany in yhe last stages of WW2, and hence needs to be even more thoroughly denazified. How can Ukraine coexist or compromise with such a mindset? How dangerous is such a regime? That mindset only makes sense if you define Nazism as being synonymous with Russophobia - otherwise how on earth can you call a country with a Jewish leader Nazi, given their extreme antisemitism? It just makes no sense. This would also be consistent with having no problem with bona-fide Nazis like the Wagner group fighting alongside you while hypocritically complaining about the Azov battalion (which I agree is a disgrace and ought to be disbanded). Notice as well the constant reference to Banderites in Russian propaganda in an effort to paint all Ukrainians as Nazis. To put it in an Irish context, it would be like Britain claiming in the 1970's that the Republic was run by Nazis in cahoots with the Provisional IRA, and using this as a pretext to invade the South. The fact that some elements of Ukrainian nationalism (like the veneration of Bandera) actually are deeply problematic no more justifies invading their country and committing colossal war crimes anymore than the excesses of Irish nationalism would justify an invasion by Britain. Can Ukraine coexist with that mindset? I'd have to say no, since to adopt it would effectively be to assent to its absorption into Russia, which is now finding out is far more difficult than it anticipated. Such a regime is extremely dangerous and shows exactly the pitfalls of nationalism (as distinct from patriotism) and of nations only considering their own interests to the exclusion of their responsibilities to the wider world. It also shows us that the multipolar world so desired by the political extremes of the left and right would in fact be a far more dangerous and volatile place, and will quite possibly culminate with a nuclear war. Certainly, there are serious problems with how international institutions are being used to push narrow agendas that are antithetical to Christianity and humanity as a whole. But the solution has to be to reform them from within, not to dismantle them altogether, since in that case the cure could very well be worse than the disease.
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Post by Young Ireland on Jan 22, 2022 21:48:23 GMT
A nasty straw in the wind: President Biden is indicating that even if Roe is overturned, he won't be backing down without a fight. Really, given that he proclaims his Catholicism at every opportunity, yet comes out with this, excommunication should seriously be considered if it hasn't been already: www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/anti-abortion-advocates-march-washington-hoping-it-s-last-time-n1287889Meanwhile, "Catholics" for Abortion have discovered that their views, tastelessly projected onto the cathedral during the pre-march vigil, have been received like a lead balloon: www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250171/activist-group-projects-pro-choice-messages-on-washington-basilica-on-eve-of-march-for-lifeFinally, the Patriot Front's attempt to hijack the March was poorly received by those on it, and the organising committee pointedly denounced them, though not by name: religionnews.com/2022/01/21/at-march-for-life-a-mix-of-triumph-and-apprehension/
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Post by Young Ireland on Nov 26, 2021 21:57:55 GMT
One passage of GKC's autobiography which I disliked was his discussion of Belloc. I can think of two points in particular which really stunned me: (1) Chesterton says he is not familiar with the details of the controversy over Belloc's commentary on the First World War, but says vaguely that he believes Belloc's casualty figures were criticised but later figures suggest he was correct. This is just not good enough - the fact is that in all his writings Belloc often makes up figures off the top of his head to give an impression of authority. Belloc was fundamentally a student debater going for immediate effect - like Christopher Hitchens. This may be tolerable when dealing with opponents who don't argue in good faith but just sneer, but it rapidly turns the practitioner into the sort of person Kingsley accused Newman of being; someone who despises the pursuit of truth for its own sake. This is the dark side of the Chesterbelloc commonsense philosophy; it is easily deployed to assume that what seems commonsense must be true and therefore need not be examined, and indeed that examination is unnecessary or even undesirable. (2) Chesterton praises a poem by Belloc about revolution as being the only one he knows of which gives a precise military plan (in fact like Belloc's battle sketches it is a vulgarisation of Jomini's analysis of Napoleonic warfare which treats what happens on the battlefield as decisive and ignores Clausewitz's emphasis on how an army is sustained and the wider political context of war. Incidentally one problem with Belloc's war commentary is that he is treating WWI as a Napoleonic war whereas it was something very different.) Worse, Chesterton quotes with admiration the last lines of the poem in which, after describing how the victorious revolutionaries will "hew their [the defeated opponents] horses at the knees/ And hack and slash their timber trees" Belloc concludes "And all these things I mean to do/ Lest perhaps my little son/ Should break his hands as I have done." Chesterton praises the last lines as a burst of human feeling, but they strike me as calculated sentimentalism used to justify cruelty and destruction undertaken for their own sake. The spite and hatred of Belloc are not pretty, and Chesterton seems oblivious to them. Is it possible that Belloc's attitude may be coloured by the Franco-Prussian War and the revanchist sentiments stemming therefrom that were commonplace among Frenchmen of his time? This BTW was one reason why the French demanded such punitive terms from Germany during the Versailles Treaty negotiations.
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