Church of the poison mind
Why have our political leaders debased themselves by queueing up to genuflect before Archbishop Brady in Rome?
Eamonn McCann, 18 Dec 2007
Backsliders of the Year: The Progressive Intellectuals of Ireland
The elevation of Archbishop Sean Brady wasn’t a State occasion. But it was ornamented by senior officials of the State.
President Mary McAleese led the Irish contingent to Rome. Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern and Government Secretary Dermot McCarthy also flew out on the government jet. From the North came Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Secretary of State Shaun Woodward.
What were they doing there? What business is it of the State, South or North, who heads up the Irish section of the Catholic Church?
McAleese announced that Brady’s promotion was a “much deserved honour” for a man of “great humility, underpinned by great scholarship”.
“That has to be a remarkable testament to the kind of faith-filled people the Irish are,” she continued, “to the kind of leaders that they have had in the Church, that at this time in our history, a very wonderful and grace-filled space in our history, we have the privilege of having three cardinals.”
This from the President, speaking on behalf of the Irish people!
Replying to the tributes, Brady declared that, “These have been difficult, at times traumatic, years for the Church in Ireland.”
Not as difficult or traumatic as for children subjected to sexual savagery by clerics, I’d have thought.
It’s always the same. Ask these ermined panjandrums about the pain inflicted by their associates on innocents and they’ll invariably reply that the Church has suffered agonies as a result of these events. I wonder why the UDA hasn’t cottoned on to this scam. “If only you knew the pain torturing Catholics has caused us...”
Priests and religious have a “unique and irreplaceable” role in society, continued Brady. And a good thing, too. You wouldn’t want any more of these boyos prowling the corridors at night.
But what’s the point of complaining about Brady, McAleese and Ahern honing their hypocrisy skills on the presumed gullibility of the plain people? It’s what they do. What’s truly dispiriting is the moral inertia of that section of society which regards itself as emancipated from mental slavery.
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