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Post by hibernicus on Aug 26, 2017 18:45:34 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Sept 1, 2017 21:43:38 GMT
There was a story on the IRISH TIMES sports pages recently, discussing Conor McGregor's boorish language and behaviour in the run-up to his fight with Floyd Mayweather, which argued that sportspeople reflect the culture or their times. In this context the writer mentioned that Christy Ring (the great Cork hurler of the 30s 40s and 50s) was a daily communicant, kissed bishops' rings and gave one of his All-Ireland medals to be melted down and incorporated in a church tabernacle, and clearly expected his readers to regard such behaviour as utterly outlandish and bizarre.
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 8, 2018 18:58:22 GMT
Labour Party Youth activist at NUI Maynooth puts up a picture of himself on Twitter declaring that he supports repeal of the Pro-Life Amendment "because - F*** the Pope". I'd suggest he go the whole hog and join the Orange Order, except that the Orange Order has some standards about the sort of hooligan it accepts. Meanwhile three "Pro-Choice" damsels have themselves photographed wearing their "Repeal" apparel and making gestures in front of a statue of Our Lady, also in Maynooth. No doubt they see this as a great gesture of liberation - from civility and politeness, at least. Did anyone ever try to apply Newman's IDEA OF AN UNIVERSITY to NUI Maynooth? If so, it has come a long way... www.irishcatholic.com/juvenile-labour-youth-reminded-social-media-codes/
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Post by Young Ireland on Jan 8, 2018 19:01:13 GMT
Labour Party Youth activist at NUI Maynooth puts up a picture of himself on Twitter declaring that he supports repeal of the Pro-Life Amendment "because - F*** the Pope". I'd suggest he go the whole hog and join the Orange Order, except that the Orange Order has some standards about the sort of hooligan it accepts. Meanwhile three "Pro-Choice" damsels have themselves photographed wearing their "Repeal" apparel and making gestures in front of a statue of Our Lady, also in Maynooth. No doubt they see this as a great gesture of liberation - from civility and politeness, at least. Did anyone ever try to apply Newman's IDEA OF AN UNIVERSITY to NUI Maynooth? If so, it has come a long way... www.irishcatholic.com/juvenile-labour-youth-reminded-social-media-codes/Well, at least the main party threw the book at them over it. Not that it will make much difference though.
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Post by Account Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 21:46:54 GMT
Labour Party Youth activist at NUI Maynooth puts up a picture of himself on Twitter declaring that he supports repeal of the Pro-Life Amendment "because - F*** the Pope". I'd suggest he go the whole hog and join the Orange Order, except that the Orange Order has some standards about the sort of hooligan it accepts. Meanwhile three "Pro-Choice" damsels have themselves photographed wearing their "Repeal" apparel and making gestures in front of a statue of Our Lady, also in Maynooth. No doubt they see this as a great gesture of liberation - from civility and politeness, at least. Did anyone ever try to apply Newman's IDEA OF AN UNIVERSITY to NUI Maynooth? If so, it has come a long way... www.irishcatholic.com/juvenile-labour-youth-reminded-social-media-codes/Well, at least the main party threw the book at them over it. Not that it will make much difference though. It will make a difference to them when these social justice heroes have to face the actual realities of this world - to get a job. Escapades like this, documented publically, globally, on the internet, for all their life, might seem a little less wise to them then. Act in haste, repent at leisure.
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Post by Young Ireland on Jan 8, 2018 22:42:19 GMT
Well, at least the main party threw the book at them over it. Not that it will make much difference though. It will make a difference to them when these social justice heroes have to face the actual realities of this world - to get a job. Escapades like this, documented publically, globally, on the internet, for all their life, might seem a little less wise to them then. Act in haste, repent at leisure. One would hope so, Eirwatcher. Given that people seem to walk around with repeal jumpers with nothing of consequence happening, I would be less optimistic.
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 12, 2018 19:56:32 GMT
There is a difference between just wearing a Repeal jumper,which expresses a point of view however wrong and harmful, and being deliberately and gratuitously offensive which these lassies were. That said, there is usually a double standard at work. I haven't noticed the people who howl and wail about aborted baby posters as offensive making any complaints about the recent vegan billboard campaign which practically says that if you drink milk you're a murderer and you'll get cancer. (I am writing from memory so I may be slightly hazy about the language used, but that is the impression the advertisements made on me.)
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 23, 2018 22:55:45 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 26, 2018 20:03:24 GMT
I was out with the SVP visitation last night when two young fellas we passed on the street started bowing and crossing themselves in mockery. I'm not sure what they had in mind (had they seen me cross myself passing a church earlier, did they realise we were SVP) but the fact that they saw this as a subject for mockery isn't encouraging.
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jan 31, 2018 14:56:28 GMT
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Feb 1, 2018 9:43:04 GMT
This piece on Brexit is off the scale. I have never seen anything like it. Bit concerned this is put forward as philosophy.
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Post by annie on Feb 9, 2018 10:41:03 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 7, 2018 20:05:23 GMT
The latest issue of VILLAGE magazine has a "modest proposal" article which after sneering at voluntary celibacy as "the most incomprehensible sexual perversion" suggests that all priests should be castrated to keep them from being a danger to the public. Actually, there is a precedent for this suggestion. At some point in the eighteenth century the Irish Parliament proposed something similar, but it was vetoed by the British government. Padraic Pearse mentions it in one of his pamphlets as an example of the most outrageous persecuting mindset imaginable. Yet VILLAGE (known to some as VILLAGE IDIOT) claims to speak for the Irish Republican tradition. Maybe I should have posted this on the "Back to Penal Days?" thread.
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jun 19, 2018 8:39:55 GMT
Shocking letter in the Irish Times today, in response to this wonderful article by Breda O'Brien: Breda O’Brien asks what the response should have been to the Taoiseach saying that Catholic hospitals will have to carry out abortions. She says that one could once have presumed that liberals would have been appalled at this intrusion on religious freedoms, but no longer. She misses the point. In a modern society there should be no such thing as a Catholic hospital. – Yours, etc,
Jim Cunningham SwordsNo explanation as to WHY there should be no such thing as a Catholic hospital. Simply, "there should be no such thing as a Catholic hospital". Normalising the view that secularism is just the default and needs no justification. No consideration of the fact that Catholics might want a Catholic hospital which is guaranteed not to euthanize them, abort their children, or deprive them of access to the sacraments. I think it also reflects a creeping statism in Irish life-- the idea that the state (and ONLY the state) should provide everything other than consumer products and services. I think it's a reminder to reflect on political correctness. Political correctness imposes a particular view on the world and makes it obligatory. Catholics (at least, orthodox Catholics) seek to "opt out" of political correctness when it comes to matters that infringe on Catholicism, but are often willing and even eager to buttress it when it comes to other matters. I think we should be very reluctant to give any quarter to PC on any front whatsoever.
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 25, 2018 21:38:04 GMT
Part of the problem is that there is little or nothing said about what should make Catholic education or healthcare distinctive, even by those who should uphold it. One often hears defenders of the church, for example, say that the church provided healthcare and education only when the state didn't, with the unconscious or conscious implication that the church should now step aside to get on with more specifically churchy matters and leave these areas to the state.
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