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ALLrishman Fr. Oisín Emmanuel was However,ODDS despite the restrictions, intimate, jubilant and utterly joy-filled ordained in the US without family or explains his sister Aoife, “the ordination occasion”. Aoife and her family watched Ifriends present due to the strict travel went ahead albeit on a much smaller the ordination on-line from their Dublin restrictions in place because of the scale, in a different location than home along with over 7,000 others SDLP COUNCILLOR pandemic. originally planned and yet it was such an worldwide. RESIGNS FROM PARTY PAGE 9

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• The content of the newspaper ALIVE! and the views expressed in it are those of the editor and contributors, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Irish Dominican Province. 2 | ALIVE! AUGUST 2020 Introduction of exclusion zones regressive, says Pro-life Campaign

RUADHÁN JONES in no other part of Europe.” “In recent correspondence to the Min- ister for Health, the Garda Commissioner he Pro-life Campaign (PLC) have described the introduction of such zones said plans to introduce “exclusion as unwarranted. If introduced, they would Tzones” are “regressive” and silence on selectively single out one group of people alternatives to abortion make clear the Gov- in society, namely members of the pro-life ernment’s priorities. movement.” The comments related to the Programme Ms Mulroy also criticised the lack of any for Government (PfG), in which the coalition positive options for pregnant women sug- has committed to creating exclusion zones gested in the PfG. Pro-Life vigil outside Holles St. Hospital earlier this year. around abortion clinics. “The absence of meaningful supports and Eilís Mulroy of PLC commented on the the lack of any reference to alternatives to tion to demonstrate even a remote interest unqualified ‘good’ that must never be ques- PfG, saying: “the introduction of censorship abortion within the draft PfG is also pro- in offering women genuine and meaningful tioned. This kind of approach is an insult to zones amount to such an obvious breach of foundly disappointing,” she said. alternatives to abortion. civil liberties. These exclusion zones which “The Programme for Government was “The draft Programme for Government the real conflict that many women feel about deny peaceful protest and free speech exist an opportunity for this new administra- doubles down on the idea that abortion is an going down the road of abortion.” US Supreme Court Brave Chinese widow chooses cases have ‘major Christ over significance’ for Ireland government

RUADHÁN JONES “The US is always the frontrun- stipend ner on these issues and Ireland typically follows suit,” Fr Martin ccording to Bitter Winter, a wo Supreme Court rul- said. “The ruling is clearly to the magazine dedicated to reli- ings, one on education and advantage of a secular progressive Agious liberty and human Tanother on gay and gender ideology and furthering its goals. rights in China, an elderly widow rights, have “major significance for “It has huge implications for in Fuzhou city had her government faithful Catholics in Ireland,” says things like hiring decisions, but stipend retained for refusing to Cork priest Fr. Michael Martin. also for sports-eligibility rules, remove images of Jesus from her The top US court ruled that government grants and many home. The affected widow does not employers who fire workers for others. represent an isolated case. being gay or transgender are “It could mean that, where a Fortunately, Women’s Rights breaking the country’s civil rights religious institution asks employ- The inside of the Supreme Court of the United States. Without Frontiers, a charita- laws. ees to remain consistent with ble organisation, has launched a The Supreme Court said federal Church teaching on gender and our own side of the pond,” said ducing dubious sexual politics, campaign in China called Save a law, which prohibits discrimi- sexuality, they could be opened up Fr. Martin. “It upholds the right or perhaps creating new denom- Widow. The outfit provides small nation based on sex, should be to litigation. It’s crazy.” of parents to make an informed inational schools,” Fr. Martin donations to the stricken Christians, choice about the type of educa- understood to include sexual ori- The second ruling, on educa- continued. which replaces the government sub- entation and gender identity. tion, is more promising says Fr. tion they would like their children sidies and allows such widows to “As we look to future of Catho- Fr. Michael Martin said these Martin. This ruling maintains the to have. purchase food and fuel. The field- rulings could make it difficult, right of parents to choose a school “There’s a major debate coming lic education, the right to parental workers also visit the women’s especially for institutions with a appropriate to their children. down the line about schooling, choice is going to become more homes to provide encouragement in Catholic ethos. “This ruling could bode well for about removing religion, intro- important.” their faith.

Dominican Polish President wins’ election on The Family Card JACK WALSH President Duda’s Contemplative backlash against LGBT ideology Nuns Website ndrzej Duda, won re-election as the enjoys widespread Polish president with pro-family public support. A Apromises in a manifesto entitled ‘The December 2019 poll Check out our new look Family Card’. Duda, who is a Catholic, has from PolskieRa- vowed to especially protect the country’s dio24 (radio and website, complete with children from influences which his citizens news site) claims that 72.8% of Poles oppose Online Shop! deem undesirable. gay marriage and even more (73.1%) oppose In a section of The Family Card titled ‘Pro- adoption by gay couples. Such support has All our own work – both the website tection of children from LGBT ideology’, emboldened the President, who tweeted and the products in the Shop. Duda pledged to put an end to LGBT mate- recently: ‘Beliefs of any minority cannot be rial in public institutions such as schools. imposed on a majority under the false pre- Moreover, Duda wants to offer additional tence of tolerance. In our times, truth has www.dominicannuns.ie supports to families who wish to homes- become a scared little creature that hides chool their children. from much stronger [political] correctness.’ AUGUST 2020 ALIVE! | 3 Aontú youth movement making great strides RUADHÁN JONES Aontú was founded last year by TD Peadar Tóibín after he refused to toe the party line in Sinn Féin over abortion. Aontú aunched under lock- has six elected representatives at local and down, Ógra Aontú national level. Ldraws members In a statement online, a number of the under the age of 27 from Ógra Aontú members said they got involved across the island of Ireland, all devoted to having been impressed by the courage and advocating Aontú’s priorities of life, unity, integrity of Peadar Tóibín. and economic justice. “By leaving another political party over a The membership includes a wide variety of matter of conscience, leader Peadar Tóibín skills and political backgrounds, from philos- showed that he wasn’t afraid to risk his ophy to nursing, Fianna Fail to Sinn Féin. political future for the values he believes Ógra Aontú cathaoirleach Ben Conroy is a in,” said Orla, a member from the North former student of philosophy and politics in West of Ireland. Oxford University, where he was president Ógra Aontú has been vocal on a number of of Oxford Student’s For Life. issues since their founding, including child He joined Aontú because he believes “in a slavery, abortion, faith and the neglect of politics of equality and human rights – and rural Ireland. Aontú is the only party in the country pur- The short-term aim of the movement is suing that vision consistently, in a way that to establish regional and college cumanns includes everyone. It’s as simple as that.” around the island of Ireland. Aontú founder TD Peader Tóibín alongside members of Ógra Aontú.

hospitals were told to suspend non-emer- Russia says marriage between man and woman Covid reduces gency surgery, including abortions. At the height of the crisis, 269 out of 280 ussia voted in favour of a national “We are voting for the country… we want number of abortions referendum that defines marriage to pass on to our children and grandchil- hospitals in Romania were not providing Rexclusively as a union between a man dren,” Putin said. bortion services around the world were abortions as a service. and a woman. The referendum also included a mech- deemed “non-essential”, saving thou- In the US, governors in five states The referendum included a number of pro- anism that would allow Putin to run for Asands of babies lives in the process. ordered or supported the cessation of posals, which also called for the inclusion of presidency again when his term ends In countries such as Romania, Italy and abortions, leading to thousands of abor- “a belief in God” as a core value. in 2024. Croatia, as well as parts of the United States, tions being cancelled.

Klopp on top, God the key

iverpool manager Jurgen Klopp led his team to their first Premier League title and revealed that his Chris- Ltian Faith helped him through the campaign. “Jesus Christ is the most important person in history,” he told a German magazine. “He took all the sins on himself and was nailed on a cross. That is why Jesus’ death was the greatest act ever achieved, because it changed everything. “I feel I am in sensationally good hands,” he said. Paving The Way Home Finding our way Home

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aving The Way Home is a new Catholic “…to speak and to transmit online apostolate based in Ireland, initi- Pated to support the official teachings of all that God has revealed: the Catholic Church through contemporary the teaching of Christ and His forms of media. “The idea came about to bring Brian and Lana O’Driscoll with family. Church in its totality, neither clarity and truth to what the Catholic Church teaches instead of the confusion and misinter- The project was set up and is funded by adding nor subtracting anything” pretation that people often associate with it,” Brian and his wife Lana, who depend com- POPE FRANCIS explains co-founder Brian O’Driscoll. pletely on donations to cover the operational The project consists of podcasts, hosted costs. The couple, who led the Catholic by Brian and his brother Kevin, which dis- Movement Youth 2000, in Ireland, set about cuss all areas of the faith with clergy, mainly preparing and organising this project in their Dominicans, and laity. Brian points out that spare time - outside of their jobs and roles the website “also hosts a variety of additional as parents to their three young children. For resources including written articles, Saint more information and to keep up to date www.pavingthewayhome.com of the Day, Pope’s intentions and insightful with all of their regular weekly content, visit material to help deepen our faith.” www.pavingthewayhome.com. 4 | ALIVE! AUGUST 2020

Kate O’Connell, Lisa Chambers and many others who joined in the most vitriolic attacks Funny that Sinn Féín think 25% is a on pro-lifers have lost their seats, yet all 15 of the pro-life TDs who voted No were returned to the Dáil. A swing to Sinn Féin in February majority while 33% counts for nothing meant people like Louise O’Reilly kept their seats, but who knows what the next election, NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN whenever that takes place, will bring. That’s the thing about being “for change” - that meaningless phrase used by Mary Lou so often – change can swing both ways. The ack in February, which wavering middle who were persuaded to vote now seems like a life- Photo: Sinn Féin. for Repeal because they were falsely told a time ago, Sinn Féin B No vote would kill women, can change. were understandably cock- Sinn Féin’s rise in the polls can change – a-hoop with their performance in Election in fact, it can collapse, as was shown in the 2020, and were predicting a change for the local elections in 2019. Change can bring good in Irish politics. new parties like Aontú. And then there’s Then along came Covid-19, an unprece- a driving force for change that no-one is dented lockdown, and the media collectively paying any attention to, but which is wait- knighting Sir Leo the Great Saviour of ing in the long grass. the Country. Almost overnight, Sinn Féin That’s demographics, and it’s a force for seemed to become irrelevant. change which doesn’t favour the politics or Now a new government has finally officially the policies of any of the established politi- been formed, and we’re in for more of the cal parties. We live in unprecedented times same from Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil – but Mary Lou McDonald TD. where many people are having less than this time with the Greens on board to destroy two children or having none at all. Pro-life what’s left of agriculture and rural Ireland. Funny, isn’t it, that the same party who’ve taxpayers to fund abortion. families will, over time, come to represent a Mary Lou McDonald says that Fianna Fáil been busy hushing the 33% of Irish people Like Kate O’Connell of Fine Gael, the Sinn significantly large – and growing – section and Fine Gael are conspiring to lock her who voted No in the abortion referendum, Féin attitude was that the pro-lifers were in of society. They will be acutely aware who party out of power, and that, because more are now acting as if 25% means they have the minority, and that meant they needed brought about the anti-family, anti-life, and than half a million people voted for Sinn some sort of majority. to be silenced and their voices beaten down deeply intolerant culture now in its ascend- Féin, this is “wrong”. ancy in Ireland, and will vote accordingly. More than 723,000 people rejected the because they lost and no longer deserved “Our mandate is as legitimate as anyone In the meantime, Sinn Féin needs to get politics of excluding preborn babies from representation. else’s and our voters have the same rights as real. 25% is not a majority – for any party. everyone else,” she wrote in the Irish Times. legal protections, but I don’t remember Yet one in three people voted to retain the And if real alternatives to the main parties “While Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar Mary-Lou saying it was wrong to exclude 8th despite an unprecedented media and can continue to develop, the 33% of voters may wish to keep us out of power; 535,595 their views from decisions on what the abor- establishment campaign, while just one in who are continually kicked to the kerb may people disagree and rejected their politics tion regime would look like, especially in four people voted for Sinn Féin – or for Fine bring about a change that none of the current of exclusion.” regard to conscientious objection or forcing Gael or Fianna Fáil. hashtags anticipated.

woman who was pregnant and in She said Gianna Care volunteers crisis and who also had a disabil- were like angels to her. Why the pro-life movement ity. She lived in a rural area and This is an organisation that is was finding it very difficult to get absolutely serious, professional to hospital appointments. These and committed to its mission - must support GiannaCare kinds of difficulties often make and who served 82 women in women feel overwhelmed and feel June alone! They have developed that continuing with the pregnancy a model of care that is superb and NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN is impossible. But Gianna Care got it should be supported by everyone Link Volunteers to arrange local who seeks to offer women a better support so that this young woman answer than abortion. id you know that when preg- could keep her hospital appoint- Resources are scarce and many nant women ring the My ments and also have a network women need support. It is my Options pregnancy ‘help- D which would support her. fervent hope that instead of rein- line’ (run by the HSE and paid for At the online Rally we were venting the wheel or setting up rival by your taxes), they are told where delighted to also meet a brave organisations, the entire pro-life they can get an abortion - but they young woman, Nissah, and her movement swings in behind Gianna are not told what organisations will beautiful baby, Ryan, who both Care to help them save as many help you to have your baby? overcame great obstacles with the mothers and babies as possible. That’s just one of the things we help of Gianna Care. Her hope for learned this month at the online the future is to go back to college www.Giannacare.ie Rally for Life, when we interviewed and give her children a good life. Ph: 01 532 2116 some of the amazing people from Gianna Care, a national organiza- tion which provides practical and emotional support to women with an unexpected pregnancy. I talked to Carolyn O’Meara, founder of Gianna Care, and one of tion, many are frightened and feel beginning. Women need to know the many heroes who go above and desperately alone. One young vol- how to access state support, they beyond to help save mothers and unteer was shocked to find that a need assistance to get to hospital is an exciting new media platform babies from abortion - and one of 19-year old who was heavily preg- for check-ups - sometimes they for Life, Faith, Family & Freedom the pieces of feedback we got back nant and getting help from the would actually give birth alone afterwards was that people were organisation last winter didn’t were it not for the Gianna Care vol- surprised by just how professional even have a winter coat. unteers who accompany them, if and comprehensive that support To put it simply, a bag of nap- requested, to the hospital to bring Be part of it! needs to be. pies isn’t all these mothers and baby into the world. Very often, the women contacted their babies need. Gianna Care Carolyn told me about their Call 01 8730465 to donate by Gianna Care are desperate and provides ultrasounds and counsel- Link Volunteer idea - a brilliant in real and urgent need. Some of ling, baby clothes and equipment, initiative which links local volun- Challenge the consensus them are homeless, others have and yes, nappies and other things teers to women who are seeking lost their job, sometimes they often provided by wonderful sup- ongoing support from Gianna See www.gript.ie need to escape an abusive situa- porters, but that’s often just the Care. One example was a young AUGUST 2020 ALIVE! | 5 Designer Babies ALIVE! NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT, PLEASE! All CREDIT CARD Payments accepted. FR. D VINCENT TWOMEY SVD CALL 01 404 8187 AIB, Tallaght • SORT CODE: 933317

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Special thanks to all of you who donated to ALIVE! during June and July. medical procedure, despite its Genetic splicing and manipulation is low success and expense. already possible (so-called CRISPR/Cas9). A Chinese scientist altered the genes of two guide the development of the human genetic or health status. The Church heritage. The advent of modern genetics in The procedure is deceptively simple. Eggs girls in embryo and brought them to term. teaches that it is immoral to He was jailed for doing so. But recently Brit- 1900 transformed theories into organized are ‘harvested’ by a process called supero- movements advocating negative eugenics, separate procreation from the vulation (not without its own risks), which ain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology enthusiastically supported by those such enables a woman to produce more than one Authority gave restricted approval for exper- act that expresses the marital as Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned ovum in a cycle. Eggs are mixed in a petri imentation on embryos up to 14 days. The Parenthood, and politicians, especially in union. This is God’s design, dish with sperm. A number of embryos are restrictions indicate that gene splicing is still England, the US, and Germany. Between then selected for their ‘quality’ and placed felt to be morally questionable. But for how which respects the dignity of 1910 and 1930, 24 States passed steriliza- in a womb. If not deep frozen for future long? The increased acceptance by society of tion laws aimed at the ‘mentally retarded, the child who is not simply the use, the rest are either experimented on the idea of producing children ‘to order’, and criminals, and the insane’, to remove such or destroyed. All the elements required the assumption that children with genetic product of its parents. for ‘making’ a baby in the laboratory (ova, defects are best liquidated – as proposed by ‘misfits’ from society. The efficiency ofthe the Australian philosopher, Peter Singer – Nazi regime so shocked the world that sperm, womb) can be provided by men and The Church issued Donum Vitae in 1987 must be a cause for alarm. Is it a new form ‘eugenics’ fell into disrepute, but never women who are strangers. and Dignitas Personae (2008) on IVF In IVF, the designer baby syndrome is of eugenics? disappeared. and related topics. They reject all exper- present: in screening for candidates, in “People have been playing God ever since Eugenics has reappeared under a new selecting gametes (eggs and sperm), and they first decided to control which children guise. The American Eugenics Society was imentation that is not aimed at healing in the ‘quality control’ by medical techni- they would have by abortion, contracep- renamed the Society for the Study of Social existing children, all destruction or freez- cians in their selection of embryos. Prenatal tive use and abstinence,” Professor Julian Biology in 1973. Articles appear in bioeth- ing of embryos, and all IVF procedures, Savulescu, ethicist at Melbourne University, tests screen children for abnormalities or to ical journals to justify eugenics. They reject including artificial insemination as offences said in 2000. “The fundamental question is involuntary measures aimed at populations determine sex. And then end in abortion if against the God-given dignity of the child undesirable. This has been described, espe- to what degree should parents be allowed or sections of a population, and propose a and the sacredness of the conjugal act. A cially by the disabled, as a form of genetic decide which children they will bear.” ‘voluntary, individual eugenics’, with the cleansing. Some say spina bifida and Down Society now seems to be willing to allow object of improving the ‘quality’ of children child is to be begotten not made but once in Syndrome are being eliminated- but reality perfect license. we now can decide to produce or eliminat- existence, irrespective of the question how is that it is people that are eliminated ‘Eugenics’ (Greek = well born) ing those without the desired characteristics. he or she was conceived, that child deserves Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PDG) In a word, designer babies is the new word absolute respect as made in the image of involves testing for so-called ‘high-risk’ is the attempt to improve for eugenics. God. As a human being, an embryo is not to diseases such as cystic fibrosis and Hun- the qualities of a species, by Eugenic practices are now offered as be used as a means to an end, endangered, tingtons’s disease before implantation. It selective breeding. Positive another commodity legitimized by med- or destroyed. But in a world where God can also be used to produce an embryo with eugenics, practiced by the ical institutions, and taken for granted. some desired characteristic, as in the case Few now contest that the phenomenon of has been effectively forgotten, where mil- of Adam Nash, who was genetically selected British to produce able slaves the ‘designer baby’ raises questions about lions are aborted annually, and hundreds to save his sister, Molly, suffering from in the West Indies, involves the direction of modern society. Access to of thousands of embryos experimented on Fanconi’s anaemia, a genetically inherited selecting ‘ideal’ types for contraception, abortion and IVF are now or consigned to the deep freeze, such teach- condition. In the Nash case, the destruction proclaimed as ‘reproductive rights’, which breeding. Negative eugenics, ing falls on deaf ears. Where God is denied, of other embryos was, tragically, not even include the ‘right’ to a child, a ‘right’ to deemed to be an issue; it is a ‘routine pro- practiced by the Nazis, whatever particular kind of child one wants, man tends to become God, creator of life cedure’ in IVF, one blithely observed. The describes attempts to rid the if technology can provide. and death, acknowledging no limits to what main concern was the ethics of making a species, or the ‘genetic pool’ of he is permitted to do. child to save the life of another child, itself a The Church has consistently people with undesirable traits. How about Doran Blake? Though ‘repro- serious moral issue. opposed eugenics, which is a Likewise, with an increased understand- duced’ by (and qualified to be) a scientist, he ing of the human genome, scientists look In the 1860s, Sir Francis Galton, Darwin’s form of discrimination on the himself has opted to study religion: “I want to alter the genetic make-up of ova, sperm, cousin, proposed that the English should basis of race, class, ability, to feel I have a place in the universe.” 6 | ALIVE! AUGUST 2020 So how did Catholics vote in the 2018 abortion referendum?

JIM STACK ing that 88% of the No voters estimate the row percentages I been omitted, because their than Table 1, because it classifies were Catholics. This might sound require. But it is a bit clumsy, small numbers in the sample respondents in a way that dis- comfortingly high, from the stand- and also a bit inaccurate, because did not admit of analysis. Differ- tinguishes those who are serious he polling company Behav- point of the Catholic hierarchy, the percentages displayed on the ent Protestant denominations about their religion (attend church iour & Attitudes carried out but it actually conveys very little website have all been rounded to are combined in this table. Most once or several times a week) an Exit Poll for RTE on the on its own. This percentage is the nearest integer. Thus, when I denomination titles in Table 1 T from those who are not. There is day of the abortion referendum bound to be high, because Catho- see that 74% of the 3779 respond- are self-explanatory, but I should in 2018. Questions asked of the lics also formed a large percentage ents are Catholics, I can calculate explain that “Not religious” is my an extraordinary decline in those 3779 respondents included two of the total sample. that there are 74% of 3779 = 2796 abbreviation for “I’m not reli- voting No (i.e. in those opposing questions on religious belief and What should have been pro- Catholics in the survey, and when gious, but I do consider myself a the legalisation of abortion) as we practice, permitting analysis to vided in these tables were the I see that 88% of 1157 No voters spiritual person”. move down this table. be carried out on the relationship row percentages, not the column were Catholic, I can calculate that The first thing that stands out I assume that the picture in between the respondents’ voting percentages. That is, instead of 88% of 1157 = 1018 Catholics voted in Table 1 is that, contrary to the Table 2 would remain the same if patterns and their religion. telling us that x% of No voters No. I can then deduce that 2796- impression created by the 88% restricted to Catholics only, but I Results of this analysis were were Catholic, it should have told 1018=1778 Catholics voted Yes. listed under No on the RTE web- posted on the have no way of RTE website at Table 1: 2018 Exit Poll: Table 2: 2018 Exit Poll: checking this the time, and Voting behaviour by religious affiliation Voting behaviour and regularity of church attendance without access are still acces- to the actual sible online. DENOMINATION VOTED NO VOTED YES Church attendance Voted No Voted Yes poll data. On However, the Catholic 1,018 (36.4%) 1,778 (63.6%) Several times a week 127 (84.1%) 24 (15.9%) this assump- way these tion, we can results are pre- Atheist 12 (6.4%) 177 (93.6%) Once a week 578 (58.8%) 405 (41.2%) conclude that sented on the nominal Catho- RTE website is Not religious 35 (8.4%) 381 (91.6%) Once a month 150 (28.4%) 379 (71.6%) lics largely not that helpful, Agnostic 12 (15.8%) 64 (84.2%) Few times a year 197 (19.3%) 823 (80.7%) if one wants to ignored Church ask direct ques- Protestant 35 (31.0%) 78 (69.0%) Never 116 (10.6%) 980 (89.4%) teaching and tions like “How voted for abor- did Catho- us that y% of Catholics voted No. That is where the data in row 1 of site, a big majority of Catholics tion in much the same way as other lics vote” or “How did regular That gives a much clearer picture my Table 1 came from. (63.6% vs 36.4%) actually voted societal subgroups. church-goers vote?” The method of what happened in this referen- These calculations should be rea- Yes in the referendum. Not that of presentation chosen on the dum. Before writing this article, I sonably close to the correct figures, different from how the Protestants Jim Stack MSc PhD is a retired RTE website is to use column per- contacted both organisations with but they are unlikely to be exact. voted, in fact. The second thing that Mathematician/Statistician, centages, which actually answer a a request for the information in Nevertheless, my tables should be stands out is that the non-religious and is writing here in a personal different question. For example, if the way I wanted it, but neither of sufficiently accurate that the con- subgroups voted overwhelmingly you go to the No column of these them responded. clusions I draw are valid. for abortion and they make up 18% capacity. The two tables he pre- tables under the heading “How But I do have a fall-back posi- Table 1 shows the voting pat- of the total sample. sents here also featured in a blog voted”, you will find 88% listed tion. I can use the information terns by religious denomination. Table 2 is also very informa- which was posted on the Iona in the “Catholic” row – mean- that was given on the website to Some religious minorities have tive. To me, it is more informative Institute website in June 2020.

NEWS FROM ACROSS THE IRISH SEA their vulnerable children. The abortion law also opens the door wide to sex-selective abor- tions. Jasvinder Sanghera, the Westminster’s Betrayal founder of UK’s Karma Nirvana, a charity that supports people affected by honour-based abuse of Northern Ireland and forced marriages, has worked with many women who have been MARIA HORAN NI abortion bill when BPAS (Brit- forced by family members to have ish Pregnancy Advisory Service) an abortion because they were CEO Anne Furedi started lobbying carrying a girl. She expressed con- espite the 79% majority of in Westminster, that the pending cern that the law contradicts the Northern Irish residents Domestic Abuse Bill be used to Convention on the Elimination Dwho responded to the public overturn the current 1967 Abor- of all Forms of Discrimination consultation on the new abortion tion Act, rendering it obsolete, and Against Women report on North- framework and expressed their decriminalise abortion completely. ern Ireland, “… the Committee opposition to the new law in North- The pro-abortion Guardian aligns itself with the Commit- ern Ireland, it has been imposed newspaper referred to the North’s tee on the Rights of Persons with against the will of the people. The pro-life laws as “draconian” but has Disabilities in the condemnation arrogance of British MPs who voted nothing to say about the manner in of sex-selective and disability-se- for this, the vast majority of whom Marie Stopes in 1904. which abortion has been imposed lective abortions, both stemming have never set foot in the North, from the need to combat nega- on a region that does not want it. It was the people of the new law work?) have explained has been laid bare. Some of them tive stereotypes and prejudices There is a whiff of colonialism what the law means for the North. It have displayed contempt, referring Northern Ireland who towards women and persons with towards the North as English MPs will no longer be a criminal offence to the NI law as “Victorian”, while stood firm against the disabilities.” The new law stands attempt to control the “indigenous” to cause a woman to miscarry failing to acknowledge the 100,000 in sharp contrast to this report. population with this barbaric law. Marie Stopes clinic through an act of violence against lives that have been saved. Few MPs As a footnote, on July 6th, opened in Belfast in 2012 her person or through poison. It will have been brave enough to exam- It is remarkable what short Speaker of the House in Westmin- ine what the new law means for the memories Westminster’s repre- and campaigned to see it no longer be an offence if a partner ster announced that the abortion North and the rest of the UK. sentatives possess, considering closed in December 2017, or anyone else slips abortion pills amendment that would have intro- It had always been the intention that only three years ago, a number in comparison to the 60+ into a pregnant woman’s drink or duced abortion for any reason up of CQC reports revealed that Marie food and kills her child. There will of the UK abortion industry to use clinics in the UK with little to 28 weeks, would not be selected the North as a Trojan horse in order Stopes abortion clinics had been be nothing to prevent women from for debate. This was a great pro- to introduce abortion on demand paying staff bonuses for abortion objection from the public. being coerced into abortions by an life victory and hopefully signifies a to the rest of the UK, claiming that referrals, leaving dead foetuses abusive partner, now that abortions turning point in the UK, for North- if the law applies to one region, it lying in open bins and failing to get Both Right to Life (righttolife.org. will take place outside a hospital ern Ireland and for repeal of Section must be the same elsewhere. The proper consent from women with uk/repeal/) and care.org.uk (Abor- setting. These situations most cer- 9 Northern Ireland (Executive For- ink had barely dried on the new learning difficulties. tion in Northern Ireland: How will tainly fail to protect women and mation etc) Act 2019. AUGUST 2020 ALIVE! | 7

our society. The issues facing the Church of England are facing all in Gavin Ashenden finds no Via Media the West. What Gavin Ashenden faced we are now confronting our- selves in ordinary life, and truth be BISHOP and Our Lady at Garabandal in told, there are many in the Church ALPHONUS 1963 (which has not been authenti- who have similarly bought into the CULLINAN cated by the Holy See). Curious and prevailing culture. Like him we sceptical, he was watching the film need to stand firm in our faith and footage with a child psychologist reject what is opposed to it but he n the friend who noted that “whatever warns that the person who does December was going on with the children not accept this new secular culture 22nd 2019 the former Angli- it was essentially real, as ecstasy O will be ostracised and is not only can Bishop Gavin Ashenden and among children could never be unwelcome but more and more chaplain to Queen Elizabeth, was faked.” From there he found the side-lined or ruthlessly silenced. received into the Roman Catholic whole history of Our Lady’s appa- We know that there are wonder- Church by the Bishop of Shrews- ritions beginning with Gregory ful things happening in the world bury, Dr. Mark Davies. Thaumaturges in the 3rd century but must not be blind to the dead Bishop Mark had invited Bishop through to Zeitoun in Cairo in 1968 end and chaos into which we are Gavin some months before saying and indeed to the present day, being led. Many of the fundamen- something along the lines: “I know deeply compelling. Circumstances tals of society are now gone from that you will come over at some brought him to a friendship with our laws and social norms – the stage, why not make it sooner Abbé René Laurentin, the Catho- traditional definition of marriage rather than later. We need you”. lic Church’s foremost expert on and the family, the sacredness of That invitation was something Marian apparitions, and his theo- human life from conception to of a final push which resulted in logical perspective blossomed into natural death, the transcendental his decision to join the apostolic a deep dependence on the rosary. Gavin Ashenden. view of the person, etc. The way Church of Rome. Curiously, this was accompanied back to sanity will be long and dif- Gavin Ashenden is no theolog- by an unwanted visitation of meta- with a narrowing concentration of declared that Jesus is not the Son ficult. Those who are reshaping ical lightweight. For twenty-five physical evil which only the rosary view that restricted itself to seeing of God. In September 2017 he was society will not stop until those years he worked in one of our more seemed to overcome. humanity through the lens of cate- consecrated as a missionary bishop who oppose them are silenced progressive English universities, as The second was the discovery gories of power, the redistribution for the Christian Episcopal Church. for good. World history is against a chaplain and academic, lecturing of the phenomena of Eucharistic of power and so-called privilege. But this was, as it were, an exper- us, take the examples of National in literature and the Psychology miracles. The fact that they were Faced with a spectrum of cultural iment which did not last long and Socialism, Soviet Communism, of Religion. He held several high unknown among those who cel- complexity, driven by a Marxist two years after his wife’s conver- Chinese Communism and the ecclesiastical positions including ebrated the Anglican version of pursuit of equality of outcome, sion, he left the Christian Episcopal French Revolution. being the Queen’s chaplain from the Eucharist carries as he says instead of offering a Christian cri- Church in December 2019 and was However, as Catholic Chris- 2008 to 2017, but had been ill at obvious implications. It was of tique, Anglicanism swallowed it received into full communion with tians we believe in the grace of ease with the direction in which the greatest relief to him to find wholesale, like so much of liberal the apostolic Church of Rome. God. ‘Where sin abounded grace the Church of England was heading an ecclesial community where the Protestantism. Instead of confront- Gavin Ashenden has thrown him- abounded all the more,’ Rom. 5:20 for about thirty years. As an Angli- Mass is truly the Mass and where ing this demolition of Christian self on Divine Providence and We can be saved. Humanity can can he had believed for some time he could celebrate an unembar- culture it sought to placate it.” will now work as a lay catechist change direction. Each person has that he had the advantage of work- rassed relationship with Our Lady When the Church of England in Shrewsbury diocese until Rome his or her gifts and opportunities ing out his faith in a broad Church, and the saints. should have been the conscience decides on his case and his possible which, with the grace of God, can which gave him plenty of room for The third reason was the Magis- of the nation, he says, it was simply future in holy orders. transform the culture in which we exploring and that under the Angli- terium. Faced with the increasingly rubber-stamping the new culture. This brave man forces us in the live starting with ourselves indi- can umbrella there was sufficient lethal assault on the faith in our Ashenden’s issue with Anglicanism Roman Catholic Church to ask vidually and then reaching out to space to embrace differing views day and time, he found there was was that it provided a Christian some very basic questions about others one by one. and theological understandings. no theological means to draw veneer for this cultural subver- That was more or less the case orthodox Anglicans together in sion using language borrowed for Gavin Ashenden until Angli- ecclesial unity. He could find a dif- from Christianity. No longer is the canism began a steady capitulation ferent Anglicanism for each day of person of faith urged to start from The to the increasingly intense and the week and came to realise that Revelation but rather to look to non-negotiable demands of a only the Catholic Church, with the social revolution. What was and is secular culture. Rev. Ashenden weight of the Magisterium, had being offered by today’s culture is a experienced a growing unease as the ecclesial integrity, theological brave new world, where people are Dominicans he saw that behind the ‘progres- maturity and spiritual potency to invited to retire to their comfort Truth sive’ value system there emerged a defend the faith, renew society and zones and the illusion of progress; ...more Precious than Time determination to promote the twin save souls in the fullness of faith. where we are tempted to believe and related evils of thought-crime Like Newman, the reading of that humanity can build whatever and the effective ending of freedom the Fathers shaped his thought kind of world it wants without of speech. as he saw more and more clearly reference to God or natural law. As he writes on his website, “In the tenets of the true Church as The secular culture promises a each generation Christianity has revealed through Scripture and new utopia based on equality and to either convert its surrounding Tradition. Objective truth then is inclusion. While this seems just in culture or be converted by it. The a given in the Judeo-Christian set theory, the practice is otherwise. In history of the West is the history of values. reality equality is not extended to of this struggle” and he watched It became increasingly clear to all and some categories of people as Anglicanism suffered a collapse him that in modern culture there are clearly excluded. of inner integrity, capitulated and was a concerted effort to undo Faced with this increasing sec- “swallowed wholesale secular soci- the entire Judeo-Christian system ularism and armed with a keen ety’s descent into a post-Christian from the ground up by redefin- intellect and commitment to truth culture”. ing the meaning of personhood, of Gavin Ashenden followed Newman The motive for his stance was marriage, of the family, and clas- again in trying to find a kind of via his love of truth and freedom. His sifying people on the basis of their media, and formed with others a "Truth is not something that we invent; was a pilgrimage not about com- sexual preference, raising individ- break-away group trying to pre- fort, but truth and integrity and in ual rights over those of the unborn, serve true Anglicanism and draw if we do it is a lie. Rather it is something many ways his conversion mirrors and denigrating the sacredness of the different groups of ‘traditional’ that we discover, like Love." that of John Henry Newman, now human life. Anglicans together. In early 2017, canonized. He saw too a real effort toward Ashenden resigned from his posi- - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Rev. Ashenden pin-pointed three the redefinition of “love”. He tion as chaplain after speaking out our check things in particular which drew explains, “This involved a replace- out against a service at St. Mary’s webpage! him home into Catholicism. ment of the values of self-sacrificial Cathedral, Glasgow, at which a new The first was an examination of compassion with a culture of grow- Muslim law student read a pas- www.irishdominicanvocations.com the encounter between the children ing narcissism. It was associated sage from the Koran that explicitly 8 | ALIVE! AUGUST 2020 6,666 abortions in THE YOUTH FORUMWITH MARY SCOTT BORAS first year of new law is Father will not forgive your sins”. your shortcomings or your sins, Once you have had confession He did all of this so that His truths a devastating outcome Guilt your sins are forgiven! Do not may become known by you. beat yourself down and surrender He pulled you back to the place on’t wallow up in your guilt, DENISE KELLY present when a senior member of to guilt! Don’t dwell on your past where you thought you’d never don’t stay down. “The right- government who campaigned day sins. Dwell on God’s love for you. be enough for anyone, in order to eous may fall 7 times and still and night for repeal, staking his D Dwell on His grace. In Christ we show you that you don’t have to he latest get back up” - Proverbs 24:16. It’s career on the outcome, can also are free of condemnation. You are be enough; He was enough for us not “the righteous fall and because Department lie low and not be called on by the forgiven. How much more will the yesterday, He is enough today, and they fall, they aren’t righteous.” Tof Health fig- media to say a word, even when the blood of Christ wash away your He will be enough forevermore. No. The righteous fall 7 times and ures showing that opposite of what he claimed would past and future sins? It is in your weakness that His get back up! Pick up from where 6,666 abortions took place in Ire- happen actually happened. Give up and stop fighting. Let power is made perfect. At the foot you are and get up, it’s not easy. land in 2019 is a devastating result. The abortion referendum in Christ be your confidence. Trust of the mountain of getting out of The enemy will constantly lie to When added to the number of Irish 2018 was never about introducing in the perfect merit of Jesus sin and closer to Him that you abortions which took place in Brit- you saying things like “you can’t abortion in ‘hard cases’ or about Christ on your behalf. Constantly thought was too hard to climb ain in the same period, the figure get out of anything”, “you waited protecting women’s lives. It was seek the Lord in prayer and ask that you didn’t think you were surpasses seven thousand. too long”, “everyone’s doing this at always about introducing a regime Him to help you overcome guilt. enough for God, He was there It represents a more than dou- your age and you aren’t”. that would permit abortion on Ask God to help you understand reaching His hand out for you to bling of the abortion rate in 12 The devil will try to get you to demand. Few thought that within a His grace and to help you fully grasp and journey not alone, but months, thanks entirely to repeal of compare, so when you don’t feel single year the evidence would be the 8th Amendment and the legis- like you are good enough you stop there for all to see. lation voted on in the Dáil in 2018. trying altogether. When you’re in There will be attempts made by News of the massive increase in a stagnant place that’s meant for abortion supporters in the months Ireland’s abortion rate received movement it will lead to frustra- ahead to settle on an agreed nar- scant media coverage. Thousands tion. God has already forgiven you; rative to make sense of the latest of extra abortions would not fit well you only need to ask for forgive- figures. Looming large will be with the false narrative pushed by ness! In the words of one of my claims that there was actually no pro-abortion campaigners and jour- favorite praise and worship songs increase in the number of abortions nalists that abortion would be ‘safe, at all – that women accessing abor- legal and rare’ if repeal happened. “Forgiveness tion pills online disguised the real It’s a cosy state of affairs that jour- numbers in previous years. Let’s Was bought with nalists can simply bury any news take this example – even if 2,000 The precious blood story that doesn’t suit their agenda, extra abortions had been occurring of Jesus Christ” knowing that for the most part the annually that were unaccounted public will be none the wiser. Cor- for because the abortion pills were The Our Father is a perfect trust in Christ. with Him strengthening you and rupt is an equally applicable word to bought online, it would still not example of God’s forgiveness as John 16:33 “I have told you giving you hope and love that you ‘cosy’ in the circumstances as many come close to explaining the mas- said in Matthew 6:9-15: “This, these things, so that in me you have never known before. He put abortion campaigners knew that sive jump in abortions from 2,879 then, is how you should pray: may have peace. In this world you you here, so you can truly see the the abortion rate would soar. They to 7,041 in a single year. “‘Our Father in heaven, hal- will have trouble. But take heart! I faithful and miracle working God knew they would have little to worry lowed be your name, your have overcome the world.” that He is. For His love not only about as their friends in the media We owe it to mothers and their kingdom come, your will be done, Sometimes God has to bring you comforts you in your brokenness simply wouldn’t report on it. This is unborn babies not to let the polit- on earth as it is in heaven. Give back to the place you first found or to shelter you from the fire precisely what has transpired. ical spin go unchallenged. Voters us today our daily bread. And for- Him; on your knees, broken and of sin, it uproots all of the seeds Campaigners and politicians con- were misled and lied to every step give us our debts, as we also have recognizing that you cannot do of fear and doubt that the devil stantly repeated the line before the of the way during the referendum forgiven our debtors. And lead us whatever it may be without Him. plants in our minds. referendum that where abortion is campaign in 2018. It is the respon- not into temptation, but deliver us He did not bring you this far in Psalm 37:23-24 “The Lord legalised the number of abortions sibility of every pro-life person to from the evil one.’ For if you for- your journey towards Him and directs the steps of the Godly. He decreases. It never made any sense play their part in getting the word give other people when they sin His glory to fix you. He brought delights in every detail of their as a line, but they kept trotting it out to friends and family, that against you, your heavenly Father you through the storm and held lives. Though they stumble, they out in the hope that voters would paints a true and honest picture will also forgive you. But if you do you as you went through the deep will never fall, for the Lord holds fall for it through repetition. Sadly, about the kind of abortion regime not forgive others their sins, your waters so you wouldn’t drown in them by the hand.” many voters did. that has taken hold in this country. All we can hope for now is that The government’s promotion of some of those same voters are abortion using taxpayers’ money image and likeness of God. having second thoughts about how has to end. It is time for politics The Beginning of Youth 2000 Immediately after World Youth they cast their vote. to give way to an open and honest Day in 1989, Ernest made a pil- Before the referendum, senior debate about the brutal reality of t World Youth Day in 1989 grimage to Fatima. It was there politicians like Simon Harris were Ireland’s new abortion law. Pope John Paul II said to during a period of prayer and on the airwaves every day trying None of this will be achieved Athe 400,000 young people reflection in the presence of the to cajole the public into voting for easily but if we work together, we who had gathered from around Blessed Sacrament, the structure repeal. He tweeted so often on the will get there eventually, and hope- the world: “It is up to you young and format for what Youth 2000 subject that it became a national fully much quicker than appears people that the task first falls of was to do became clear. Through talking point. Yet, when the latest possible at this remove. bearing witness to the faith and a rediscovery of Mass, Adoration figures emerged, he had nothing bringing into the Third Millen- of the Blessed Sacrament, the to say. Denise Kelly is a spokesperson nium the Gospel of Christ, who is Scriptures, Sacrament of Recon- It says a lot about our country at for the Pro Life Campaign. the Way, the Truth and the Life!” ciliation and Devotion to Mary the But to whom does the task fall Mother of God, and the Church’s to bring this message to those teaching, young people would dis- who are not at World Youth Day, cover the unique calling that they who do not go to Mass on Sunday had to live as Christians. and who do not even know that Ernest began to gather young God exists? people together in prayer, and This question led English- soon this initiative, known as man Ernest Williams to respond Youth 2000, spread to more than to this need by forming Youth erty of our times; a generation 25 countries all over the world, 2000. Youth 2000 was formed of young people living in the changing the lives of thousands of because a young English man spiritual poverty of not know- young people. Youth 2000 com- responded to the greatest pov- ing that they were created in the menced in Ireland in 1993! WORDS OF WISDOM AUGUST 2020 ALIVE! | 9

mation of the dogma where contrary, never passes away and of each one of us will continue to MONTHLY assumption into heavenly glory is we all exist by virtue of his love. We exist, as it were pulled to safety, Meditations mentioned. All of us today are well exist because he loves us, because while other parts fall into ruin; aware that by the term “Heaven” we he conceived of us and called us on the contrary it means that God ow, what St Paul says of all passage we have heard testifies are not referring to somewhere in to life. We exist in God’s thoughts knows and loves the whole of the human beings the Church (Lk 1: 39-56): a faith that is obedi- the universe, to a star or such like; and in God’s love. We exist in the human being, what we are. And Nin her infallible Magiste- ence to the word of God and total no. We mean something far greater whole of our reality, not only in our God welcomes into his eternity rium says of Mary in a precise abandonment to the divine action and far more difficult to define with “shadow”. Our serenity, our hope what is developing and becoming and clear manner: the Mother of and initiative, in accordance with our limited human conceptions. and our peace are based precisely now, in our life made up of suf- God is so deeply integrated into what the Archangel announced With this term “Heaven” we wish on this: in God, in his thoughts fering and love, of hope, joy and to say that God, the God who made and in his love, it is not merely a Christ’s Mystery that at the end of to her. Faith, therefore, is Mary’s sorrow. The whole of man, the himself close to us, does not aban- “shadow” of ourselves that sur- her earthly life she already partic- greatness, as Elizabeth joyfully whole of his life, is taken by God don us in or after death but keeps vives but rather we are preserved ipates with her whole self in her proclaims: Mary is “blessed among and, purified in him, receives eter- Son’s Resurrection. She lives what a place for us and gives us eternity. and ushered into eternity with the women” and “blessed is the fruit nity. Dear Friends! I think this is a we await at the end of time when of [her] womb”, for she is Mother We mean that in God there is room whole of our being in him, in his truth that should fill us with deep the “last enemy” death will have of the Lord” because she believed for us. To understand this reality a creator love. It is his Love that tri- joy. Christianity does not proclaim been destroyed (cf. 1 Cor 15: 26); and lived uniquely the “first” of the little better let us look at our own umphs over death and gives us merely some salvation of the soul she already lives what we proclaim Beatitudes, the Beatitude of faith. lives. We all experience that when eternity and it is this love that we in the Creed: “We look for the Res- Elizabeth confesses it in her joy people die they continue to exist, in call “Heaven”: God is so great that in a vague afterlife in which all that urrection of the dead, and the life and in that of her child who leaps a certain way, in the memory and he also makes room for us. And is precious and dear to us in this of the world to come”. in her womb: “And blessed is she heart of those who knew and loved Jesus the man, who at the same world would be eliminated, but We can then ask ourselves: what who believed that there would be them. We might say that a part of time is God, is the guarantee for us promises eternal life, “the life of are the roots of this victory over a fulfilment of what was spoken to the person lives on in them but it that the being-man and the being- the world to come”. death wonderfully anticipated in her from the Lord” (v. 45). resembles a “shadow” because this God can exist and live, the one Mary? Its roots are in the faith of the In this regard I would like to survival in the heart of their loved within the other, for eternity. Homily of His Holiness Benedict Virgin of Nazareth, as the Gospel reflect on an aspect of the affir- ones is destined to end. God, on the This means that not only a part XVI, Sunday, 15 August 2010

you like a well brought-up person, and do not out restraint; for overeating brings sickness, chew greedily, or you will give offense. Be the and gluttony leads to nausea” (37:29-31). His SIRACH: SPIRITUAL READING first to stop, as befits good manners, and do advice about pulling back from the table is CONTINUED not be insatiable, or you will give offense. If echoed by medics today. Whoever said the you are seated among many persons, do not Bible wasn’t relevant or practical?! help yourself before they do. How ample a FR. JOSEPH BRIODY has it all—he also deals with courtesy and Sirach is serious about more important little is for a well-disciplined person! He does table manners. In the midst of listing seri- matters also. Sirach 34:21-35:26 deals with not breathe heavily when in bed. Healthy ous matters to be frowned upon, he throws true religion and social justice. While he is sleep depends on moderate eating; he rises Wisdom Part 25: in, “and of leaning on your elbow at meals” early, and feels fit. The distress of sleepless- very positive about the worship of the Lord Sirach-More Counsel (41:19, in Greek, “fixing your elbows on the in the Temple (50:1-21), he insists on jus- bread”). Basically he means selfish behavior ness and of nausea and colic are with the tice and concern for the needy and the poor. at meals. This is probably why generations of glutton. … In everything you do be moderate or Sirach, what is most important and We should not appear before the Lord emp- children were taught not to put their elbows and no sickness will overtake you” (31:12-22). transcends all other things is fear of the on the table! “Be ashamed of selfish behavior Later too he talks of greed: “Do not eat with- ty-handed (35:6). Lord, noting that, “Rich experience is F at meals, of surliness in receiving and giving, the crown of the aged, and their boast is the and of silence, before those who greet you…” fear of the Lord” (25:6). He goes on to say: (41:19-20). A WEEKEND WITH ST. JOSEPH! “How great is the one who finds wisdom! Sirach then goes on to write about greed- CROAGH PATRICK MEN’S CLIMB OF REPARATION, But none is superior to the one who fears the iness and overindulging. He offers a guide Lord. Fear of the Lord surpasses everything; to basic courtesy based on self-discipline, MEN’S DINNER AND CONFERENCE to whom can we compare the one who has respect, thoughtfulness, and attention to the TH RD it?” (25:10-11). Some ancient authorities needs and comfort of others before ourselves. SATURDAY 22 & SUNDAY 23 AUGUST 2020 add a verse 12: “The fear of the Lord is the He points out the obvious pitfalls of over- beginning of love for him, and faith is the eating, e.g., sickness and restlessness. “Are beginning of clinging to him.” This fear is not you seated at the table of the great? Do not a servile, cringing, domineering fear. Rather, be greedy at it, and do not say, ‘How much it involves great respect and leads to love, food there is here!’… Do not reach out your reverence, and attentiveness to what the hand for everything you see... Judge your Lord wills. neighbor’s feelings by your own, and in every From sublime to minor details, Sirach matter be thoughtful. Eat what is set before

SDLP “Fo wa w he de ad wa w he fie t d” SATURDAY, 24TH AUGUST ** AMAZING VALUE - SPECIAL MEN’S CLIMB DEAL! ** Councillor Men’s Climb of Croagh Patrick, Meet- ing for Recitation of the Rosary in the Men’s Conference, Dinner and Accom- Car Park at 10.20am. Commencement modation in the Clew Bay Hotel resigns of Climb at 11am. Mass on summit at Westport €99 per person sharing - approx. 1.30pm. Evening Dinner and Book early places limited! Or Evening Men’s Evening Conference - Clew Bay Meal and Men’s talk in the Clew Bay from Party Hotel, Westport. Great Speakers lined up! Hotel, Westport - €35 Limited budget accommodation avail- SUNDAY, 23RD AUGUST councillor for the Social Demo- able at Old Mill Hostel, Westport, €30 crat and Labour Party (SDLP) has political voice. The philosophy which my Men’s Breakfast and Morning Conference. pp shared rooms. A resigned from the party over its father espoused was based on non-violence stance on abortion in Northern Ireland. and the right to life. I followed in his foot- All Bookings through Stephanie Quigley announced in July that steps and held the right to life and the life Human Life International (Ireland) o ce only she was quitting the party but would remain of the unborn child as the cornerstone of my Guadalupe Centre, Main Street, Knock Co Mayo. a councillor for Causeway Coast and Glens. political philosophy.” TELEPHONE MOBILE EMAIL Ms Quigley, told Irish News that the right Councillor Quigley’s decision demon- 094 937 5993 085 860 8835 [email protected] to life was at the core of her politics. strates to parties that marginalise the pro-life “My natural home was in the SDLP,” she position that there are consequences for A great day of camaraderie, prayer, challenges and laughs. said. “It was where my father honed his taking a stance against human rights. 10 | ALIVE! AUGUST 2020

Filled with gratitude we might Please God scientists will find Offering a new vision to a post-covid world have put worship of the transcend- a vaccine, but our confidence ent God at the centre of our lives in human control of nature and he most profound global sequences of the Fall, Adam and and our society, the hope of eter- in inevitable progress has been change being brought about Eve’s rebellion against God. nal happiness with him giving us up-ended. And it’s not likely to Tby the Covid-19 pandemic He didn’t seem to notice that meaning and purpose. recover soon. People need a new may turn out to be a new openness this religious belief would make We might have stressed the rela- vision of life and its purpose. to the Catholic vision of life and the him rather than Jesus the world’s tional character of people made in Only the Church can offer this message of salvation. To under- Saviour. the image of the Blessed Trinity, vision. Yet its lack of vigour in this stand why, we need to go back Scientific achievements in later and avoided the lunatic ideology of crisis has been disappointing. Our some 400 years. centuries led to great confidence in radical individualism or secularist various leaders seem to have little Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is human ability and the belief that liberalism. to offer except to repeat the state- generally seen as the father of the future could only bring ever Instead, we crippled reason and ments of politicians and various modern science, the man who greater progress. God himself no reduced our vision to earthly con- “experts”. developed the scientific method of longer seemed necessary. cerns. Then Covid-19 arrived. Surely this is a time for the studying the material world. A microscopic virus turned Church to rediscover its religious His discovery began a process PHYSICS our world upside down. Family identity, to purify itself from the that, in time, changed everything So, in 1802 Pierre-Simon Lap- life, religious practice, politics, poisonous secularisation that has from agriculture to astronomy, lace, asked by Napoleon about education, industry, transport, gripped it for decades. from manufacturing to medicine. God’s place in his physics, haugh- entertainment - all have been radi- Above all, we need to proclaim It also transformed the way tily replied, “I have no need for that Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban. cally affected. once again the transcendence and people viewed the world. They hypothesis”. the mercy of God and the relativ- could now gain dominion over Then came Darwin with his of good science with stupid phil- PROTECTION isation of all our concerns by the nature and fashion it to meet their theory of evolution, and God as osophical theories. Yet none of We are coming to a new reali- hope of heaven. every need and desire. the unnecessary scientific hypoth- this need ever have happened and sation that science is not enough We need to call people to repent- Bacon, a devout Anglican, was esis could finally be excluded from people might have formed a view of to protect us from death, to give ance and to a new God-centred so excited by his discovery and human life. Or so it seemed to many life and human dignity very differ- meaning to life, or even to save our vision of life as revealed to us in the benefits it might bring that he of the leading lights of the time. ent to the materialist view we have economy, to guarantee our free- the life, death and resurrection of thought it would undo the con- In all this we see the linking ended up with today. dom and security. Jesus the Saviour.

tiveness, the meaning of education. Varadkar It took some neck for Varadkar to talk about the “values of peace, justice and human rights”, given the leading role he painted fake played in the most evil event in Irish history, the repeal of the prolife 8th Amendment and picture of unity the introduction of the most liberal abortion system in the world. ormer Taoiseach Leo Varadkar recently But he knew he would get away with it, that spoke about Ireland working with other no one in politics or the media would call him Photo: European Cyclists’ Federation. Photo: European Cyclists’ Fcountries “to promote our shared values out. We really are served very badly by our of peace, justice and human rights.” politicians and media. By “our values” he meant the things that Aborting babies is “the greatest destroyer Irish and like-minded people hold dear. But of peace” (Mother Teresa) and it’s a profound Irish society is deeply divided by greatly con- injustice against the discarded babies. How flicting values. then can he speak of valuing peace? Many people, for example, reject Mr Again, history shows us that the notion of Varadkar’s values. They find many of them “human rights” is rooted in Catholic theology abhorrent and socially destructive, to say and it cannot survive without belief in God the least. and in the sacredness of human life. Leo Varadkar, when Irish Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport on a bicycle during the ITF By implicitly attributing those values to Bicycle Parade If we cannot have an on-going free and the whole people he abused his position, pre- truthful discussion about “our values” senting a fake, self-serving picture of unity. those with a different vision of justice, for and worship of God, the purpose of human then they, like “rights”, become a cover Even worse, by hiding the deep divisions example, and of life’s purpose. life, life after death, hope versus despair, the for the demands of the powerful. And our about the kind of society we want he ren- Some key areas where division about family based on marriage, the daily slaughter dud media go along with this soft form of dered invisible and irrelevant the views of values runs deepest include reverence for of the unborn, the rights of parents, acquisi- oppression.

GOD FIRST Scientist blind to the real story in his research Because of their upbringing, the Tongan teenagers put God first in ow would children behave if six boys aged 13-16 who did in fact However, they “agreed to work their lives, beginning and ending left completely to their own spend about 15 months alone on a in teams of two, drawing up a strict each day with prayer. They knew Hdevices? Very badly, said deserted Pacific island. roster for garden, kitchen and that Jesus was with them. William Golding in his 1954 novel, In 1965 the schoolboys, from guard duty. We may also assume that Catho- Lord of the Flies. Tonga, “borrowed” a fishing boat “Sometimes they quarrelled, lic morality guided how they treated Portraying the descent into sav- but got caught in a storm and but whenever that happened they each other and that their trust in agery of a group of boys who found ended up drifting in the ocean for solved it by imposing a time-out. God gave them hope and the cour- themselves marooned on a remote eight days. Their days began and ended with age to face the daily difficulties. island, the book sold tens of mil- Finally, they reached a tiny song and prayer.” All this deserved some explora- lions of copies. deserted island, while their fami- Combining this story and the tion, but Bregman did not pick up “Golding had a masterful abil- lies believed they had died at sea. “modern scientific insights”, Breg- ity to portray the darkest depths man came to his more positive view on any of it. As a result, his conclu- of mankind,” says Dutch historian SEA CAPTAIN of human beings: sions about human goodness are of Rutger Bregman. Bregman tracked down the Aus- “The real Lord of the Flies is a little value, if not false. But, he claims, “in the last 20 tralian sea captain who found them tale of friendship and loyalty; one Many researchers and journal- ists today have no interest in, or are years scientists from all over the and also one of the boys, now in his that illustrates how much stronger interpretation of the data and their late sixties, to find out the full story. prejudiced against, Christian faith. world have switched to a more we are if we can lean on each other.” conclusions are skewed or fake. hopeful view of mankind,” a view He learnt that the teenagers had The Tonga story, however, is This is a philosophical or religious, How can we trust such research- he clearly shares (The Guardian, come from “a strict Catholic board- about much more than friend- not a scientific position. But it can 9/5/2020). ing school” and that survival on ship and loyalty. It also shows damage their research. ers? They are neither “scientific” While researching this “more the island had been difficult: “all the impact Catholic faith and a Blind to the immense impact nor objective. And action based on hopeful” view of human goodness, summer long it hardly rained, driv- Catholic education can have on faith often has in people’s lives, their distorted research may do far Bregman learnt about a group of ing the boys frantic with thirst.” young people. they ignore it. As a result, their more harm than good. AUGUST 2020 ALIVE! | 11

Good moral formation for chil- investigated and validated as holy dren in a way that reinforces love sites for pilgrimage. Two famous Many faces of prejudice and empathy will save the world cases in Anambra and Benue states from so much hate and division. of Nigeria were treated as little IGNATIUS responsibility to take action. Equality of outcome of a society more than hoaxes and locals feel MONEKE It is more problematic when is reflected in the proportional- aggrieved by this. the systems fail to address the ity of diversity in institutions. The Many pagans taunt and ridi- fact that prejudices can become Church should be exemplary in this cule African Christians for being acial embedded in institutions, whether regard, given that the Church is a brainwashed by the white man’s discrimi- they are conscious, unconscious, Rnation and overt or covert. microcosm of the larger society. Christianity which paints pictures of other forms of discrimination are Christianity is an essential call When the church allows insti- only white angels and saints, while mostly the result of conscious and to be the good Samaritan, whose tutional segregation, agitations having Lucifer painted as black. unconscious biases. The season character transcends race, nation- against injustices by the mar- The Church should be the cannot be more urgent for the ality, gender or disability. We are ginalised become inevitable. quintessential light for global illu- church to engage more aggres- called to act only with love and Africans begin to ask when a mination. This does not mean sively in spreading the gospel empathy. These Godly attributes Pope can come from their con- tearing down statues or ripping message of love, equality and are challenged in our world today tinent. There have been many up classical art, but bringing up to unity to heal division. It becomes with so much division. The Church calls for beatification and can- date how its modern day practices. very disconcerting to even enter- cannot have a better time to be onisation of adherents from this Until citizens of every nation tain the idea that many Christians more distinguished and relevant. continent that many feel have are no longer explicitly or implic- Chapel of our Lady of the Rosary - are guilty of these societal ills. It is destructive to the emotional not been followed up, and people itly classed as first or second, civil St Michael Vanquishing the Devil by feel a real sense of isolation unrests, belligerence, dissidence In the wake of the death of and spiritual wellbeing of people Bonifacio de’ Pitati. George Floyd in America, a new when they feel alienated and from the Vatican. One exam- and wars will persist as resent- awakening came upon the world treated unfairly. It is unconscion- the moral structures of a society, ple of this in Nigeria, is the case ment builds up. The Church can regarding the level of inequalities able to treat people unequally for and this can occur also within the for canonisation of Fr. Cyprian take a leading role in establishing plaguing the globe. It is hard to reasons such as race, social status, church of Christ. However, love is Iwene Tansi. justice on earth through its own address social injustices if denial is gender, nationality or disability. our natural affinity and embrac- There are grievances where cases example, which is resonant with a continuum and if even organisa- Discriminations which are ing it will bring healing to our of Marian apparitions in Africa Christian values of love, equality tions like the Church abnegate the learned lead to the erosion of broken world. are felt not to have been properly and empathy.

this to you: if a man looks at a took control. I made it better. It Each one of us has a God-given capacity to love woman lustfully, he has already had everything to do with self- which is an expression of the infinite, eternal Reclaiming Sex love of God that powers the Universe. This love committed adultery with her in control. Job-wise. Life-wise. is beamed at each one of us at every moment LOUIS HUGHES OP his heart.” (Matthew 5.27 – 28) Exercise-wise. Relationship- of our lives and with total unconditionality – wise. Everything was better.” irrespective of whatever sexual or other activity we have been engaged in. What we need most he London-based Yet, sexuality is part of who we are as of all for sexual sobriety and real happiness is newspaper The Tel- created by God. And it is also integral to Chaste living is an even surer means to simply to allow our loving to be shaped by that egraph, recently Christian spirituality. In the writings of Saint T Paul, sex within marriage is seen as a sacred well-being and peace of mind when we real- experience. As Jesus puts it: “Love one another published an article enti- ize that it is the way our Creator calls us to live. as I have loved you.” (John 15.12) tled, “The new breed of sex addicts - who don’t symbol of Christ’s relationship of fidelity to have sex.” The article spoke of “young people his people, the church. (Ephesians 5.25) Here addicted to porn or sex cameras online, but two aspects of human love, the erotic (eros) scared of making real physical contact.” This and the self-giving (agape), are beautifully JOB OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVANCE phenomenon represents just one aspect of the integrated. As Pope Benedict XVI put it in his current explosion of online pornography. Also Encyclical Deus Caritas Est: “eros needs to be in Britain, a study by the BBC last year revealed disciplined and purified if it is to provide not CATHOLIC FAITH LIFE AND FAMILY that fifty-five per cent of men said pornography just fleeting pleasure but a certain foretaste of the pinnacle of our existence, of that beatitude 1 OFFICE MANAGER (30-40 hrs per week.) Based in Knock, Co Mayo had been their main source of sex education. managing also outlying o ce in Claremorris. Managing personnel, technical The dominant culture in the western world for which our whole being yearns.” Sexual integrity means directing our capac- and administrative processes in two o ces and two shops in Knock. This today would have us believe that being sexu- role entails taking full responsibility for the e ective running of the o ce, ally active is essential for happiness. 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The only sidered unremarkable for men to be sexually Church teaching in life, faith and family issues. requirement for membership is a desire to stop involved with teen-aged youths of both sexes. lusting and become sexually sober.” (https:// Human Life International (Ireland) – For an Ireland where The early Christian community saireland.com/) People who have broken with God is First, Life is Sacred, The Family is cherished. confronted this pattern of sex addiction through self-help programmes like SA have noted dramatic improvements in CV to Catherine, Human Life International (Ireland) behaviour head on, following their mental well-being – quite the contrary of Guadalupe Centre, Main Street, Knock Co Mayo. on the teaching of Jesus in the what the dominant ethos today would have us Sermon on the Mount: “You have believe. 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Cancel Culture o good dogs go to Heaven? should be cancelled D Prepare us for that day of days he news that JK Rowling, When Christ from heaven will come Salman Rushdie and a long list with might. To call us out of dust again, Tof other notables have penned a Our bodies glorified in light. letter pushing back against the cancel culture craze that seems to have We believe in the resurrection of the enveloped the world is more than body on the last day. But what happens JK Rowling at the welcome. Increasingly, people across then? Do we return to Heaven with White House. the political spectrum are starting to Christ forever? see the madness that this entails. One-by-one, often as they Here’s St Paul: become victims of the idea that only certain ideas are any For the creation waits with eager longer permissible, they realise the danger this entails. longing for the revealing of the sons of In Ireland, with the new coalition government aiming to God;… because the creation itself will put hate-speech legislation in place it is time to push back be set free from its bondage to decay here as well. The idea that someone should be punished and obtain the glorious liberty of the simply because another chooses to be offended is an inver- children of God. sion of common sense and makes a joke of the law. Not only us, but also all material Only a few short years after blasphemy was removed creation will be glorified: freed from the Beatific Vision. But we also lose Jesus does indeed ascend bodily from the Constitution of Ireland, the government seeks to death and suffering, with the beauty something important: our bodies. St into heaven, with the apostles looking reintroduce it in law – only that the ‘new blasphemy’ is a of God shining through all things. The Thomas Aquinas thinks bodies are up after him, probably missing their mysterious doctrine, no one knowing what it entails until present world God made has us sur- essential to us – God made us different friend. But angels tell them: they fall foul of the thought police, the new high priests of rounded by living bodies of all shapes, to the Angels – and so we are happy but modern Ireland. sizes and colours, and this bodily rich- incomplete in Heaven. This Jesus, who was taken up from Who is most at risk of the new hate-speech laws? Anyone ness continues in the Coming World. Thus, the last line of the Creed seems you into heaven, will come in the that dares utter their belief in an objective Catholic truth. This embodied life, lived and shared to me to be more about the new Earth. same way as you saw him go into with other creatures, all drenched God made us to be embodied: death, heaven. in the glory of God, is the Life of the the permanent separation of body and Of course black lives matter World to Come which we profess in the spirit, was not in his plans. Being a God descending to Earth to wrest con- last line of the Nicene Creed. disembodied spirit in Heaven is a tem- trol from Satan, become our king and ll lives matter and racism and discrimination should This is Physics 2.0: new bodies, porary state for us dwell with us forever, not human people be fought everywhere. And yes, historically, people perhaps made of matter obeying new ascending, is the dominant direction in Aof colour have suffered discrimination and been rules. In physics at present it’s hard For God formed us to be imperishable; Scripture (more on this in N.T. Wright’s victim of apartheid or similar policies such as the Jim Crow to avoid things breaking down and so the image of his own nature he made How God Became King). Isn’t that what laws in the US. Many still feel the effects of the legacy of eventually death. The chemical bonds us. But by the envy of the devil, death we pray for in the Our Father? such racist legislation, and the process of trying to redress holding together your DNA have a entered the world So do good dogs go to Heaven? this should be continued. certain strength, and there’s always The new Earth seems a more natural But the solution is not tearing down statues. It is not something stronger: naturally occur- God’s triumph over death starts fit. If the creation itself will be set free accusing people of ‘white privilege’ and demanding some ring radiation can cause harmful with Christ’s resurrection, but his plan from its bondage to decay it seems all form of self-flagellation as reparations. It is not shouting mutations. Your bones have a certain only completes with the life of the new sorts of animals will be on the new Earth, meaningless slogans, defunding the police or destroying strength: jump off a cliff and you’ll find Earth, the Coming World. Our joy will transfigured into a new nature where the nuclear family. It is a return to the virtues of compas- there’s something stronger. be increased when we can see God and they don’t die or prey on each other. sion, caring and understanding – the values that underpin One eminent physicist I’ve talked to our loved ones, not only through the Christian society and are the blocks which Europe and the said he could indeed think of a type mind’s vision of God but also through The wolf and the lamb shall feed United States were built on. of matter that would beat death, so our waking eyes. together, the lion shall eat straw the idea doesn’t seem scientifically Why do we tend not to look beyond like the ox; and dust shall be the impossible. But the full scope of God’s heaven? Perhaps it seems a fitting end serpent’s food. The new Minister changes to matter are likely as far to the story: we’re freed from the body They shall not hurt or destroy beyond our best minds as a butterfly is and zoom off into space. But those who in all my holy mountain, for Children’s beyond a caterpillar. know scripture might notice a pattern. says the LORD. To die is gain says St Paul: what gender dystopia exactly do we gain when we go to Thy kingdom come, thy will be done Whether your particular bundle of ractically the first announce- Heaven? The sanctifying grace in our on Earth, as it is in Heaven fluff will be there is less clear: perhaps ment by the Minister for souls gives us the capacity to see God, And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, if you put in a good word? PChildren was that he intends to the source of all created beauty and coming down out of heaven And he who sat upon the throne said, introduce laws to to make it easier truth and joy, clearly and directly in from God “Behold, I make all things new”. Roderic O’Gorman. for 16 and 17-year-olds to legally change their gender and says children under 16 should be able to change their gender with the consent of their par- MESSAGE TO MY MOTHER (from your beautiful on-board baby) ents or guardians and GP. Each new government in Ireland seems to bring a new depth of madness. Dearest mother of mine Do not think of me Please, please let me BE I long to see you Has he not been listening to psychiatrists and medical How we do shine! As a non-entity, Love will compensate thee Face to face, practitioners in the UK who have raised very grave con- Living as one I am ALIVE and Infinitely. To rest always cerns about the push to encourage gender changing in Second to none Living inside of Let justice be done In loving embrace, the UK? Has he not listened to the testimonies of those More than father and son. You, my mother. For your daughter or son! And thank you for that have done this, regretted it and have to live with the In waiting to be Your wonderful grace. consequences? It is a dereliction of responsibility of the gov- Holding me safe Do not condemn me Your special one, God blesses us both, ernment and adults to allow this to happen, knowing that In your special embrace To early eternity. Your ever-constant helper. mother. teenagers are vulnerable and going through emotional and Inside your body Do not turn your womb hormonal changes that cause them confusion, and are at an Inside your heart Into a courtroom, Please, please love me, I remain, forever yours, Inside your mind Nor into a tomb mother Your loving child, age most susceptible to erratic choices that they may regret Two of a kind And a slaughter room. And let us both shine, Till the end of time later. Rather than ensuring they do not take these potential Never to part Let only God decide Darling mother of mine. And beyond life-destroying choices and support them until they become Sweet mother of my heart. When I cease to be alive. Mama, I so love you, The end. adults, the Government is aiming to turn their backs, in the I really, really do! name of choice. Again. Let some of these lines Listen to my plea, And God loves us two. Stick in your mind. Have MERCY on me! [email protected] CULTURE AUGUST 2020 ALIVE! | 13

nistir Thamhlachta’ ón 9ú haois, Tá tuilleadh fianaise ar ina ndéantar cur síos ar nósm- dhea-cháil Máel Ruain mar mhúin- Naomh Máel Ruain haireachta Mháel Ruain agus cuid teoir a raibh tionchar mór aige ar dá chomhlaigh, de réir mar a chu- Chríostaíocht a linne ón leabhrán PÓL Ó MEÁDHRA leath den 8ú haois. Tugann ion- imhníonn a leantóir Máel Díthruib ‘Lucht Óentad Máele Ruain’ a tráil i Martalaig Thamhlachta le as Tír Dhá Ghlas air. chuimsíonn an dáréag comhlach fios dúinn gur tháinig Máel Ruain Tá téacs ann ar a dtugtar ‘Riail is suntasaí a ghlac lena theagasc. a é Naomh Máel Ruain go Tamhlacht agus é ag iompar Céilí Dé’, atá caomhnaithe sa Lea- Scríobhtar ann go raibh Óengus, bunaitheoir agus abb-easpag ‘iarsmaí na mairtíreach naofa agus bhar Breac ón 15ú haois. Is ann a Máel Díthruib as Tír Dhá Ghlas, Mhainistir Thamhlachta, na maighdean’ (cum suis reliquiis B bhfuil treoracha éagsúla maidir le Fedelmid mac Crimthainn, rí Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath. Meastar go sanctorum martirum et uirginum), rialáil agus urramú beatha mhai- Chaisil, Diarmait ua hÁedo Róin as raibh sé ar dhuine is mó le rá den le súil ar mhainistir a bhunú ann. nistreach, go háirithe i gcúrsaí Diseart Diarmada, Co. Chill Dara ghluaiseacht mhainistreach ar a Ba é an deisceabal ba mhó aithne liotúirgeacha. Deirtear gurbh iad agus Dímmán as Araid ina measc. dtugadh na Céilí Dé. ar Mháel Ruain ná Óengus an Céilí Óengus agus Máel Ruain a chum é. Tuairiscíonn Annála Uladh faoin Ní hé Máel Ruain a ainm Dé, údar an Féilire Óengusso, mar- Is cosúil go raibh na saothair thre- mbliain 792 go bhfuair Máel Ruain pearsanta a thugtar air ag am a talaig nó féilire iomráiteach ag orach seo bunaithe ar nathanna bás síochánta, ag tabhairt easpag baistí, ach a ainm mainistreach, comóradh féilte na naomh Gaelach Aithreacha Fásacha na hÉigipte. I comhdhéanta de Shean-Ghaeilge agus naomh eile, chomh maith le measc na n-ábhar imní tipiciúil atá agus shaighdiúir Chríost air. máel, ‘duine a bhfuil corann air’ leagan próis de Mhartarlaig Tham- iontu tá an tábhacht a bhaineann Sa tréimhse chomhaimseartha, agus Ruain ‘de Rúadán’, rud a hlachta. Ina eipealóg den Fhéilire Cuid den chóip de Mhartarlaig le haithris laethúil ar an Saltair, tá baint ag Naomh Maelrun le Thamhlachta bainte de Leabhar chiallaíonn gur mhanach de chuid Óengusso, a scríobhadh tamall tar féin-smacht agus scaradh ó ábhair limistéar an tSeanbhábhún i dTam- Laighean agus anois i gColáiste na mhainistir Naomh Rúadán i éis bhás Mháel Ruain, taispeánann hlacht; ainmnítear bunscoil áitiúil i hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath. imní dhomhanda. I gcoinne Lothra ab ea é, i dTuaisceart Thio- Óengus go bhfuil sé go mór faoi na gcleachtas a bhí ag gluaise- ndiaidh an naoimh, mar atá cuid de braid Árainn, mar a thosaigh sé chomaoin ag a ‘theagascóir’, a chu- príomha trí roinnt scríbhinní ón achtaí mainistreacha na hÉireann thithe i gceantar an tSeanbhábhún. Tógadh séipéal áitiúil de chuid a shaol mar mhanach ar dtús. imhníonn air in áiteanna eile mar 9ú haois a bhaineann le pobal roimhe seo, luaitear Máel Ruain Tugtar creidiúint go coitianta ‘an ghrian mhór ar mhachaire ag toirmeasc ar a mhanaigh dul Eaglais na hÉireann ar fhothrach Thamhlachta ar a dtugtar ‘Cuimh- dó faoi bhunú mhainistir Tham- theas na Mí’. ar oilithreacht thar lear, agus gur na mainistreach in 1829 mar a hlachta, ar a dtugtar ‘Tamhlacht Tagann fianaise maidir lena neachán Thamhlachta’. Ceann de fearr saol comhchoiteann a chothú bhfuil Sráidbhaile Thamhlachta Mháel Ruain’ uaireanta, sa dara theagasc agus a thionchar go na príomhthéacsanna is ea ‘Mai- sa mhainistir. lonnaithe sa lá atá inniu ann.

ALIVE! FILM REVIEW That is perhaps its most distinctive shift ALIVE! BOOK REVIEW book provides insights into the pre-8th from past Jesus-films. Jesus hardly appears amendment years, and demonstrates its OF THE MONTH in the first episode, which is a fictional OF THE MONTH importance as the primary sources docu- account of Mary Magdalene’s conversion. menting those years were written by those The first series focuses more on St Peter, Nic- that opposed the unsung heroes. The Chosen odemus, St Matthew and Mary Magdalene. Patriots: As I went through the book, quite quickly It’s successful up to a point: solid story- as it flows so well, I found myself wanting (Dallas Jenkins, 2020) telling and efforts at capturing the everyday The Untold Story of to know more about the founding fathers life of contemporary Jews help to immerse and mothers of the movement, demonstrat- RUADHAN JONES one in the plot. The choices they face are Ireland’s Pro-Life ing just why this chronicle is so important. of everyday survival for the most part and It captures the story of these heroes whose that is perhaps more relatable than spiritual Movement memories would be forgotten and first hand struggles. However, it struggles to overcome accounts no longer possible. new TV show has been making waves By Jonathon van Maren in Christian circles – it’s called The the obvious issue that we know the story Reading the book will bring back painful Chosen, a life-of-Christ for the modern already: there is little tension because the memories for many – the hurt, the sadness, A DEREK RYAN result is pre-ordained. the disappointment of what the removal of age. Produced by Christian streaming ser- vice VidAngel, it is the largest crowdfunded Of course, though the film is not neces- the 8th amendment means for Ireland for sarily centred on Christ, He is its centre and project ever and will be, it’s hoped, the first unborn children. It will also remind us of His depiction is, as a result, vital to the suc- reland was described by abortion cam- multi-series show on Christ’s life. Cheesy, the anger at witnessing our Taoiseach and cess of the show. In this respect, the show is paigners as the jewel in the crown of the but reasonably enjoyable, the first season is a Minister for Health joining the crowds in treading a fine line. It is deeply indebted to pro-life movement – and for decades the qualified success. I Dublin Castle to sing and dance at what they the historical, human Jesus, showing Him constitutional protection of the unborn was The series is the brainchild of American had just done. as an itinerant carpenter, dancing and inter- attacked repeatedly. On May 25th 2018, History, they say, is written by the win- director Dallas Jenkins. Aimed at a young acting with children much as a father might. that legal protection for preborn babies was ners. No doubt in the long run, as those who audience, Jenkins wants to create a series However, His overt politeness and nice- stripped away in the name of progressivism voted to kill off their descendants, have sown about Jesus that people could binge-watch ness becomes grating at times and you begin and modernity. the seeds of their own defeat, the winners in the same way they do Game of Thrones. to wonder how anyone could have noticed Not many know that the story of Ireland’s are those who fought to defend the life of the In this he appears to be successful – it cur- Him, let alone rejected or killed him. There constitutional protection for the unborn voiceless. The next generations should know rently has a rating of 9.8/10 on IMDB, a is a tension, between Christ’s humanity and began before the 8th Amendment to the who those people were and that not every- popular review site. His divinity, which the show may come to constitution was introduced, in response one danced on the graves of the unborn. The Chosen develops the characters work out over the course of series. to developments overseas where legal pro- around Christ in a manner which owes It is worth at least beginning, but it will tection was removed by judicial over-reach much to multi-character TV shows like not be to everyone’s taste. Cheesy and and with little or no consideration of the Game of Thrones. What Jenkins attempts engaging, it is a solid modern drama with popular view. to do is extend the stories of the Gospels to a Christian hook. It is currently available to A small group of people with great fore- clarify what was at stake for each character. watch on YouTube. sight forged a spectacular political campaign to have the referendum on the 8th amend- ment take place in 1983, through the short-lived Pro-Life Amendment Campaign. From that time until 2018, others inspired by this group fought off the establishment who sought to undo the 8th, through the UN and European Court of Human Rights, and exploiting sad and tragic cases in order to force through their ideological agenda. Until now the history of Ireland’s pro-life protections and the people, the movement, the events and campaigns that kept abor- tion at bay had not been written down, and Jonathon van Maren does a service to Ire- land in documenting the 40 year history of this movement. For those not old enough to remember the people who started this movement, the 14 | ALIVE! AUGUST 2020

Speakers included Culture of Life Africa 40,000 watch Rally for Life Live events, organisers spokeswoman, Obianuju Ekeocha; US activ- ist and investigator Lila Rose; disability activist and Down Syndrome activist Heidi say reach to grow tenfold over coming weeks Crowter; and Mexican actor and philanthro- pist Eduardo Verástegui. DENISE RICHARDS Pro-life politicians Mattie McGrath, Carol Nolan and Peadar Tóibín were also inter- viewed, as were support organisations rganisers of the online Rally for Life Every Life Counts, Doctors for Life, Stanton say at least 40,000 people tuned in to Healthcare and Gianna Care. Owatch rally events live, and that they Photo: Cillian Kelly. On Sunday, some 6,000 people joined aim to grow that audience tenfold given the the Live Rally youth conference, Unfiltered, success and popularity of the virtual rally. aiming to help young activists find their pro- The Rally for Life is Ireland’s largest pro- life voice. life event and took place online this year because of Covid-19 restrictions. “Having 40,000 people tune in live to the Rally Fest shows just how alive and vibrant the pro-life community is, and how power- ful the message for Life can be,” the Rally Committee said. “We had lots of families watching in groups so the numbers watching are likely even bigger, but we’re thrilled to Rally for Life in Cork City. have had a minimum of 40,000 people join- Photo: Rebecca Roughneen. ing in the live events.” Halappanavar, a screening of the box-office “Now, the plan is to grow that tenfold, hit pro-life movie Unplanned, and a live- reaching 300,000 or 400,000 people streamed Vigil for Life, before the Virtual watching the events online. It would mean Rally for Life kicked off on Saturday. the Rally effect could continue throughout 34 local rallies, described as “socially-dis- the whole summer, cutting right through tanced pro-life witnesses” had taken place lockdown with a clear compelling pro-life across the country before the online Rally message,” they added. began, with presenters Tim Jackson and The Rally Fest events included a Niamh Uí Bhriain opening up the event documentary on the death of Savita at 4pm. Virtual Rally for Life Production Team.

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Dear Alive! Reader, All together, we need to raise Seminarians, Shinyangu Diocese, Tanzania in danger of ceasing studies €50,000** to pull this off . Twenty eight young seminarians in YOU can be an Irish Missionary! Your donation – be it €5000 or Shinyanga Diocese in Tanzania are Here is a NEW WAY you can be an €5 is greatly needed and is a profound being forced to cease their priestly Seminarians to be Irish Missionary - assist twenty eight act of mercy! studies right away - if funds can’t be sent home? young seminarians on the path to the raised for another year! priesthood. What a grace if we could help Fr. Charles Bundu, who ministered even only one! Wouldn’t twenty We just can’t let them be in Ireland for a few summers, told These young priests-to-be are for you, eight would be fantastic! me of twenty eight seminarians in his your children and your grandchildren. lost to the priesthood! university who are being forced to Call our donation hotline return home because of lack of funds. They are studying under the chaplaincy One of them might even come to 09493 75 993 of my personal friend Fr. Charles Ireland! I corresponded and spoke by phone TODAY! Bundu. with his Bishop, Bishop Sangu, who Just this month it was reported that confi rmed the situation and stated he Yours sincerely When Fr Bundu told me of their plight, the Irish Seminary College in Rome is DEEPLY grateful for any help. I thought: will NOT receive any new seminarians for 2020-21! Nine Masses will be off ered for “Surely there is something intentions of all who donate. But here’s a way you CAN make a we can do!” diff erence!! Patrick McCrystal Forced to suspend priestly Executive Director What a Fantastic opportunity to help studies. Third year seminarian Costs – To guarantee another year Human Life International (Ireland) present 28 young priests TO GOD and Emmanuel Kimambo writes: “I do of study for Emmanuel and his fellow the Universal Church! not know how I am going to end my seminarians we need to raise, all told, studies... I am in a diffi cult situation… €50,000.** ** €50,000 will cover the cost of sponsoring 28 What price could be put on seminarians (€28,000) for one year, publicising even ONE priest who can I pray always to God to open a way to Could you possibly sponsor the cost this project (€8,000) and essential ongoing me through people who are willing to HLI (Ireland) background administration and consecrate bread into the of one seminarian – all in average of support his future servants. Without €1,785? project costs for one month. Should the goal be Holy Eucharist – let alone exceeded or not reached, we will apply all funds assistance… I will be forced to suspend prudentially to this project and all our other 28 priests? my priestly studies… essential projects and running expenses.

€50,000 needs to be raised to save Let’s work to present 28 new priests seminarians from leaving studies. to the Universal Church! ✁ YES Patrick! Please make a cheque / postal order payable to HLI Ireland. CUT OUT REPLY I want to help these twenty eight Credit/ debit Card number seminarians continue their priestly Expiry CVV number (rear 3 digits) studies. Here is my gift of:

Please tick ... Name: €5,355 covers 3 Seminarians all in. Address: Tel: €1785 covers 1 Seminarian all in. Mobile: €500 €250 Email: €100 €50 €10 “I do not know how I am I would like to receive your newsletters & updates on this and all your projects Other going to end my studies.” Please send me your standing order form for a monthly standing order in support of this work. Emmanuel Kimambo Please cut out and post to: Human Life International Ireland, Guadalupe Centre, Main Street Knock, Co Mayo 3rd year Seminarian TEL 094 937 5993 EMAIL [email protected] WEB www.humanlife.ie CHY 11138 REG. CHARITY NO. 20029814 Alive! August 2020

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