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Baby Ann Judgements will cause an abrupt drop in Family breakdown (13th Nov 2006) We provide links below to the Judgments made by the five Supreme Court Justices in the hearing labelled by the media as the "Baby Ann Adoption" case.
These judgments represent a landmark in family law.
The principle of the case itself is simply that a baby cannot be adopted from a Married Family against the wishes of the parents. What is remarkable and commendable of the majority of the Justices (see Hardiman J., Geoghegan J., Fennelly J) is that they have seized this opportunity to reverse the slippage in the Rule of Law - the established law of the Family - that custom and practice, as exercised in the family law courts, especially the lower courts, has steadily eroded in the past 40 years.
[Click Here to link to full judgements] PRESS RELEASE 7th DECEMBER 2006 DECEMBER GENERAL MEETING OF THE IRISH BISHOPS' CONFERENCE "As Bishops, we cannot but express our amazement that politicians and public opinion makers shy away from confronting the basic demands of morality, namely what is right and wrong. Until such time as morality is respected for what it is - the bedrock of personal integrity and of communal life - Irish society, in the midst of increasing material prosperity, will continue its downward descent into moral chaos where literally anything goes. Fundamentally, our society needs a moral revolution to replace a culture of violence with a renewed ethic of justice, responsibility and community. New policies and programs, while necessary, cannot substitute for a recovery of the old values of right and wrong, respect and responsibility, love and justice. The teachings of Jesus Christ are clear as are the biblical values of respect for life, peace and justice and community. The teaching of the Church on respect for human life and dignity, on right and wrong, on family, on justice and peace, on rights and duties are available to us. They are imperatives for the common good. Our faith challenges each of us to examine how we can contribute to an ethic which cherishes life, puts people before things, and values kindness and compassion over anger, intolerance, vengeance and lack of forgiveness. A growing sense of national fear and concern must be replaced by a new commitment to solidarity and an enhancing of the common good." HOME SCHOOLING in CANON LAW - BENEDICT T. NGUYEN Throughout 2003, the question of the legitimacy of home schooling by Catholic parents arose when three respected priests, Fathers Vincent Rogers, Peter M.J. Stravinskas, and Clarence Hettinger, attempted to defend the view that Catholic parents generally do not have the right to home school their children. This is their advanced argument as presented primarily in The Catholic Answer. The Necessity of Both Sexes in Parenting. In the last four decades, a feminist revolution has swept the globe. To be sure, this revolution has brought many beneficial changes to our world. Now, for instance, much of the world allows and encourages women to bring their talents into the public spheres of work and public policy. But this revolution has also brought less`e developments. MARRIED LOVE AND THE GIFT OF LIFE Men and women considering marriage yearn for certain things. They want to be accepted unconditionally by each other. They want their marriage to be filled with love and happiness. They want a family. In short, they want their marriage to be a source of joy and fulfilment their whole life long. In the Rite of Marriage (1969) a man and woman are asked if they will love one another faithfully and totally. in short, if they will love as God loves. “Have you come here freely and without reservation to give yourselves to each other in marriage?” asks the bishop, priest, or deacon. “Will you love and honour each other as man and wife for the rest of your lives? Will you accept children lovingly from God, and bring them up according to the law of Christ and his Church?” A Case for Strengthening Marriage http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/29/AR2006102900548.html For the first time in history, less than half of U.S. households are headed by married couples. And on Sept. 29, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing that almost 36 percent of all births are the result of unmarried childbearing, the highest percentage ever recorded. In family law, as in the rest of American society, there is an intensifying debate about how we should respond to this kind of news. Should law and society actively seek new ways to support marriage? Or should family law strive to be marriage-neutral by providing more rights and benefits to its alternatives, such as cohabitation and single parenthood? [READ ON] The moral divide between the Roman Catholic Church and civil law In May of this year a father of four was jailed for two weeks for contempt of orders made in family law proceedings brought by his wife in the Circuit Court. His habeas corpus application was successful after Justice Smith in the High Court commented that the manner in which he was jailed contained "worrying features". He was freed on condition that he initiate Judicial Review proceedings to resolve the important issues raised. The husband had argued that the court had failed to show jurisdiction over his Roman Catholic Marriage, that the matter raised constitutional issues as to whether a marriage can at the one time be soluble and indissoluble and on that basis declined to appear before the Circuit Court. The unhappy and unsatisfactory apparent dismissing of the Judicial Review in the High Court last week whilst the father was absent because of illness leaves these important issues still to be resolved and this essay is an attempt to analyse the underlying difficulties that this case has unearthed and why it might suit the legal system to have this matter swept back under the carpet. The essential features of the case are:
[READ ON] Comparing the Lifestyles of Homosexual Couples to Married Couples "Married and Gay Couples Not All that Different," proclaimed the headline of a news article portraying homosexual households as remarkably similar to married couples. "We're the couple next door," claimed one partnered homosexual. "We have a dog and a cat. I drive a Volvo. I'm boring." NOT SO! says Mr Dailey... Many times, homosexual relationships are touted as being no different than ordinary married couples. But research shows that in several key respects, the homosexual lifestyle differs radically from other types of relationships. [READ ON]
HPV Condom Study Shows The Failure of Condom Education by Dale O'Leary That is a headline you didn't read in your local paper although it accurately describes the results of a study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. Instead the headline in at least one paper reads "Condoms protect against cervical cancer." The subhead is a little more restrained: "When condoms are used effectively, a study shows they can help prevent the spread of human papilloma virus" (HPV). Most people would assume for example, that prevent means zero infections, but what the study actually found was that if 100 women used condoms 100% of the time for one year, 37 would be infected with HPV. Admittedly that is better than the results for the 100 women who used condoms 5% or less of the time, 89 of these would be infected. What the news story failed to mention is that if 100 women used condoms 5% to 49% of the time, there would be 159 infections. In other words some women would have multiple infections. How, you may ask, are women who at least use condoms
some of the time twice as likely to be infected as those
who use condoms rarely or never? The answer probably
lies in the psychology of condom use. Those who have
reason to believe that their partners are not infected
are more likely to discontinue condom use, whereas those
who perceive some risk are more likely to insist on
condom use.
Brainwashing The Children : A Global Effort "As the battle for total control over our children escalates, the bastions of social services in almost every nation are working overtime to steal them and turn them into state property. This is a global effort, not just an assault on children, and no effort is too great to those who want to brainwash the children and make them citizens of the new global order. Not since the days of Noah has there been such a systematic destruction of the children, not just literally (through infanticide), but through brainwashing and abuse. There's a lot at stake for the liberal elites and turncoat conservatives, but their plans didn't come out of thin air. The real source is spiritual, and a "war in the heavenlies" is mirroring what's happening here on earth - a war that's more insidious than those fought with guns, grenades, and rockets. In its alleged quest for equality for women, the feminist movement fomented the destruction of the family (especially poor families) and the creation of a global harem via the destruction of morals. Women still (as in ancient empires) rely on their physical selves to bargain for the crown jewels. Look at the prostitution rings taking shape on college campuses across this nation. This is the type of education being nurtured in the
youngest of our females for the good of the New World
Order. The harems must be replenished and our littlest
girls are the source. This is not freedom for women,
it's slavery; and it comes with a high price - the destruction
of their souls."
COMMUNIST
ORIENTED POLICING The consensus (dialectic) process
There is a myth that communism is dead and that the cold war is over. Nothing could be further from the truth. The problem is that few people today understand what communism really is and just where the cold war battle lines are actually drawn. Crack open a dictionary and look up the term "Dialectical Materialism." You should find something like this: "A philosophy founded by Karl Marx… which forms the basis of Communist doctrine: it combines the materialistic idea of matter over mind with the Hegalian dialectic in which opposing forces are constantly being reunited at a higher level." Webster Dictionary But that definition might beg
the question, "What is the Hegelian dialectic?"
For modern man, the answer to that question is epic.
The Hegelian dialectic has profoundly impacted the world
in which you live.
AUSTRALIAN SAFETY SURVEY KILLS FEMINIST DISTORTIONS The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Personal Safety Survey has finally emerged and along with its appearance, the statistical myths of feminist's victimhood and women's class oppression - particularly those relating to claims of epidemic violence against women - have immediately vaporised. Their silence is deafening. [READ ON]
PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL LIFESTYLE IS LIABLE FOR DAMAGES Those who lead high-risk lifestyles - including people who engage in promiscuous and/or same-sex acts - are again held liable for not only infecting their partner but also for telling partners about possible exposure to infections and disease. The article below reports a landmark ruling in the Supreme Court of California which can be cited in the courts here in Ireland. The court ruled that anyone who contracts a Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) can successfully sue, for damages, the person that transmitted it to them. There are very serious implications for schools as the ruling carries the inference that a person who is taught in school, as part of the Department of Education's "Stay Safe" programme or SPHE course where they are told they would be 'safe' as long as they used a condom. If a child taught such a programme at some stage in their life contracts a Sexually Transmitted Disease whilst using a condom the school's Board of Management will from now on be liable for negligence for failing to properly warn the children about the consequences and huge risks associated with sex outside monogamous relationships. There are a minimum of 50 different strains of Sexually Transmitted Diseases so the chances of a teacher being able to properly cover them all is zero. When one also considers that the STD Human Pampilloma Virus is associated with the majority of cervical cancers and the STD Chlamydia is often without any symptoms but can lead to infertility 5 or more years later one can only imagine the size of the damages to be paid out to a woman who has become infertile as a result or who has developed cervical cancer. See Reducing Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among our Youth by Robert E. Rector This decision also will impact very significantly on 'Marriage breakdown' by bringing conduct back to its moral roots. If a person behaves badly by committing adultery and by so doing increases the risk of physical or emotional injury to their spouse by introducing disease or some other harm, they will from now on be liable for damages. We now know that Sexually Transmitted Diseases are much more prevalent and harmful than we ever understood and that condoms do not protect one from the consequences. This means in effect that almost every case of promiscuity or adultery and certainly any sexual acts committed by two males will carry disease and make the transgressor liable to be sued. This will have enormous ramifications as the innocent spouse will now be able to seek compensation for the harm done to them, regardless of whether the so-called 'family' law has become so distorted by solicitors it pretends to allow "no-fault" divorce. Roger Eldridge, Chairman. National Men's Council
of Ireland, www.family-men.com
DOUBLE-TALK OVER CLAIM THAT STATE FACES CENSURE OVER INADEQUATECHILD ACCESS Comment Double-talk over claim that State faces censure over inadequate child access Last week the Sunday Business Post printed an article where it said "The state is accused of breaching the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by failing to provide facilities for supervised access between separated parents and their children." The National Mens Council of Ireland have carried
out extensive research into the whole area of child
and family law and we can confirm there is no so-called
breach of United Nations Convention on the Rights of
the Child that liars claim we have to abide by. There
are however ongoing serious violations of the Constitutional
rights of married fathers to protect their children
Sexual history now fair game - The Los Angeles Times 7 July 2006 California's Supreme Court rightly decides that high-risk partners have disease-transmission liability before they know they're infected. Since the first such case found its way into court
more than two decades ago, only people who knew they
had HIV and didn't inform their partners could be held
liable by the people they infected. This week, the California
Supreme Court rightly decided that wasn't harsh enough.
CENSUS FORM ANOTHER ATTACK ON MARRIAGE The National Men’s Council of Ireland and Mothers at Home believe the first question in the census form after the informant’s name should be, as it always used to be, to determine their marital status. If this is not done the rest of the questions do not make sense and the answers will not be helpful. We believe this census is so badly flawed that the persons who are responsible for it should be sacked and it should be done again with the money to do so coming out of the wages of those responsible. The evidence suggests that this census form is being used as a tool of the state for social engineering and no doubt we will be hearing from this census lots of statistics as to why we should ‘forget’ about and demean the institution of Marriage, concentrate on our ‘careers’ and let the state look after our children! For starters there is no acknowledgement of the legal position in a Married family as to who is head of the household. The law of Ireland directs that it is the Husband, yet this form allows any adult to fill it in on behalf of themselves and everyone else. This is further compounded by a claim that anyone who fails or refuses to provide information or who knowingly provides false information may be subject to a fine of up to €25,000. We ask who in a married family is liable for the fine if the information is not properly provided?
THE MISUSE OF THE "EQUALITY CONCEPT"
HARMS CHILDREN It appears from the research carried out by the National
Men's Council of Ireland and from the experiences of
members of the Mothers at Home group that the "equality
concept" is being MIS-used by our feminist state
to stealthily take control of our lives. Whilst one
can argue over the manner and morality of such a power
grab, one aspect is undeniable. IT IS HARMING CHILDREN
and this article explains how we can reverse that situation
and use it to actually better protect children.
THE LAW RELATING TO THE MARRIED FAMILY IN IRELAND Courts exist to vindicate the rights of the citizens. The Family Courts exist to interpret and implement legislation in such a way as to vindicate the rights of the Married Family. The rights of the Married Family exist in Natural Law, in Common Law, in statute and Constitutional Law and enshrine the presumption that a child's welfare requires the making of a relief order that vindicates the child's rights to be in the society of both their Married parents. (see Articles 41 and 42 of Bunreacht Na hÉireann; see Finlay C J in re: J H an infant, [1984 Nos 86, 322 and 399 Sp.]) It is accepted as a matter of public policy that it is in the interests of a
child's welfare and development to foster a close relationship between a child
of a Marriage and both of that child's parents.
Why
Joint Custody is Overrated? - The REAL REASONS One often reads articles which claim that “Joint Custody is Overrated?” These are often written by solicitors (who are in fact Officers of the Court, ie they work for the state) and so need to be treated with a government “health warning” - but in this instance to warn us about the GOVERNMENT trying to damage our health! There’s a grave risk that their claims about Custody, joint or otherwise will mislead many, intentionally or otherwise. The important consideration that is almost always omitted (maliciously or by ignorance) from these sorts of articles is the enormous distinction that exists in the rights and duties of parents who are Married and those who are not.
Can we humbly suggest that the starting point for anyone who cares about restoring love, peace, comfort and happiness back into ordinary people’s family lives is with an understanding of what has happened to men which has made them feel so weak and unable to protect their children and families. If we accept that men are terribly weak now, we need to understand what has changed from the time when they weren’t so weak, from a time when they were actually strong AND ABLE TO PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN.
Harper Backs MPs Depiction of Liberal Day Care Plan as "Soviet Style" Quote: "Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant added, "for the previous 13 years, Canadians ha(ve) been saddled with an interventionist government that without a doubt has been anti-family. The worldwide trend away from Soviet style institutionalised day care has been very pronounced in those countries that were formerly part of the old Soviet empire and are now democracies. Our plan to provide benefits directly to families is in tune with the experience of other democratic countries."
Same-sex
promotion to eliminate Mum and Dad from our language? Just in time for Mother's Day, the California Senate has voted to approve S.B. 1437, a measure that could eliminate mom and dad from school textbooks. [Click link]
WHY
CHRIST'S MALENESS IS ESSENTIAL TO FAITH. Peter Kreeft, The Voice Today 28 April 2006 It explains why feminism has sought to demonise all men. It explains why feminism is anti-Christian, anti-Muslim, anti-Jew, anti-God. Most importantly, if the message it conveys is properly understood, it contains the seeds of a revival in men’s feelings of self-worth and a return to a culture where the connection between law and morality is restored. “As a man comes into a woman's body from without (=outside) to impregnate her and performs a miracle in her - of a new life - from without; God creates the universe from without and performs miracles in it from without. He also calls to man, reveals himself and his law to man from without.” Lest any man gets carried away that this article suggests he is imbued with God-like characteristics, this article actually reveals that man may only use his awesome power in the pursuit of performing his onerous responsibilities. Furthermore our present societal descent into the abyss of moral and social depravity will ONLY be halted and reversed when men recover from the emotional (and physical) shock we have been thrown into by the feminist allegations of our inherent badness and we once again act as Husbands. This, for many will take a courage that they fear they do not possess. However the good news is that the tide has turned and there are already signs that those who are brave enough to dare are actually succeeding in their goals – of protecting their family from attack by the unholy alliance of big-business, big-government and the media. The truth is that the war we wage will only be won when men once again connect the law to morality through their faith in God.
Fighting poverty means fighting family-breakup This article applies unfortunately everywhere Socialists have the upper hand in government - even in the Ireland who have just commemorated 90 years of its existence as a Republic. A republic is a country where the people hold the sovereignty and are protected from state interference by a written Constitution, yet our Prime Minister, leader of Fianna Fail - 'the Republican Party' - openly admits to being a socialist and openly makes statements opposing the Constitution. Quote: ... The state guarantees
a father's income without his presence. While the middle class can afford to be liberal about family break-up - lone parents usually have the money and family support needed - Murray believes this trend is wreaking catastrophic damage on the poorest reaches of society. There are now reams of evidence, he says, showing that the children of lone parents are, for example, seven times as likely to fall into poverty, four times as likely to be expelled from school and twice as likely to go to prison. If you accept these facts - which Murray says are unchallenged - then fighting poverty means fighting family-breakup. While this is the approach taken in America, by left and right, it is too moralistic a mission for any British politician to touch. "In Britain, if you say the things people like me say you are seen as hard-headed, mean and nasty," says Murray. "I believe cruelty consists of a glib assumption that government support for children can compensate for the absence of the father."
Men
are defined by their natural ability to be givers/providers
in society I would like to humbly offer my hypothesis about the fundamental nature of men and women and how this appears to unnervingly fit many of the facts that we have become aware of about the many differences between men and women that persist despite all attempts at 'equality'. It also goes some way to explain why we are in such a predicament and how we might begin to get out of it. If there is broad agreement that there is some merit in my hypothesis and it can be further refined by the movement to the point where every man can empathise with its basic premise and start to act on the conclusions that can be drawn we can begin to bring our societies back into line with common sense again rather than all the time being surprised at the behaviour of women and expecting men to act in a way that is counter to their nature My hypothesis, simplistic as it is, goes like this. [Click Link]
"How
to control adults by means of bogus 'children's rights'
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With the announcement by the Taoiseach last week that the Office of the Minister for Children would be established to streamline comprehensive policies for children it is probably a suitable time to read the expose written by Lynette Burrows on "How to control adults by means of 'children's rights' - How Paedophiles masquerade behind Children's Rights" One of the very serious points she raises in her article is how the promotion by the government of the so-called "Children's Rights" movement in Sweden - a country with a population only twice what we have here in Ireland - has resulted in an average of 15 to 20 thousand children per year being taken from their parents and put into institutional care. The figure in Ireland is hard to find but is estimated at between 500 and 1000. The way that the state has enabled itself to achieve this extraordinary number in Sweden was to start more than ten years ago with the introduction of the exact same so-called "Children's Rights" institutions and organisations being heavily funded now in Ireland and who similarly sought, amongst other things, to criminalise the right of a parent to use any form of appropriate discipline including smacking. The main reason that Ireland has withstood the secular intervention for so long is because of the Constitutional protections afforded to married parents by De Valera. These are the very protections that the liberal/feminists are seeking to eliminate by way of the infamous All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution. The other reason is because of the strength of the Catholic Church and the fundamental principles it holds so dearly that the centrality of the married family be kept sacred. The research carried out by the National Men's Council of Ireland shows clearly how the state is continually seeking to illegally undermine the natural and Constitutional rights of parents to protect their children from interference by the state. It is obvious to any sane person that anyone who really cares for children will give their support to the children's parents. Yet the state does the total opposite. The National Parent's Council, primary and post primary who are the statutory body designated to represent all parents receive less than a 100,000 euros a year to do their work whereas the Children's Rights Council, where parents of all the children in Ireland have only two seats at the table out of more than seventy - are funded to the tune of millions! With this in mind please read Lynette Burrows article. Roger Eldridge, Chairman. National Men's Council
of Ireland, Knockvicar, Boyle, Co. Roscommon Britain's lop-sided baby famine Quotes: "We should be incentivising marriage and prioritising not the Government's fetish of independence for women but inter-dependence between husbands and wives. And bringing back selection into the state school system would do more for middle-class reproductive energy than any amount of dodgy child-care or paternity leave for bemused fathers. Even more fundamentally, the middle classes aren't having large families because they have lost confidence in the future. Their values are quite simply under siege. The core middle-class virtue of respectability has been all but abolished. Marriage and home making are financially penalised The problem is that the Government's 'family-friendly' policies are almost wholly to do with its iconic goal of relieving poverty, as well as pursuing the ultra-feminist agenda of stripping men of their breadwinner role to give independence to women." Advocacy
Research - fooling you the public A brief explanation of the typical 'research' studies you read in newspaper. Frank Furedi, a professor of sociology at the University
of Kent, England.and a commentator on social policy
made a very astute observation in 2004;
Implications of Papal Encyclical on Pro-Life Movement Quote: "The Pope also points out that while their roles are distinct, the Church must work alongside the State in bringing about a just society. The Church "cannot and must not remain on the sidelines in the fight for justice. She has to play her part through rational argument and she has to reawaken the spiritual energy without which justice, which always demands sacrifice, cannot prevail and prosper" (n.28)..... The pro-life movement is all about love for our neighbour
in the womb….
Roe
v. Wade: That Most Unsettling Law South Dakota's Senate has now joined the House in the capital city of Pierre to challenge Roe v. Wade. South Dakota's new law banning abortion would allow doctors to terminate a pregnancy only if necessary to save the mother's life. We welcome this move by the people's elected representatives. The states are not mere chessboards to be manipulated by national groups. When I served in the Louisiana state legislature, I was proud of the fact that when lawmakers debated, we listened, and some were even persuaded. Too often in Congress, arguments fall on deaf ears as partisan politics prevail. The states are great laboratories of democracy. While many will assail the actions of the South Dakota legislature, their new law reflects a pro-life state. The fact that no South Dakota doctors are willing to perform abortions speaks volumes about the social stigma attached to abortion. Those who perform abortions there are flown in from Minnesota. South Dakota's actions make clear that 33 years after Roe v. Wade overturned the abortion laws of all 50 states; Americans have still not accepted abortion-on-demand.
A UK Solicitor explains how 'Legal Corruption' has devestated Marriage A solicitor tells of the corruption in the way that family law is implemented in the UK. If you change the names of the bits of legislation the same misuse of the law is being applied here with the same devasting results - families are being torn apart because the legal profession is facilitating the one who breaks the contract of marriage, often even by the act of desertion or adultery to benefit by penalising the innocent spouse. This is what is fuelling the ever-increasing queue of wives wanting to end their marriages. THE BOGUS CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY Melanie argues that both young girls and mature women (who in fact make up the majority of lone mothers) have chosen to forego the child support system known as marriage. To expect still to enjoy the benefits of that support, having explicitly rejected the duties it entails, is irresponsible and makes a nonsense of marriage. Yet that is precisely the set of assumptions that the CSA in the UK and the Maintenance Recovery Section in Ireland promote. At the heart of this problem is that child support policy is explicitly not intended to repair the family. Politicians are terrified to go down this road, taking refuge instead in the apparent neutrality of financial support for children. But it is not neutral at all. On the contrary, it is fuelling further family breakdown by failing to acknowledge that the principal motor behind this phenomenon is the behaviour of women. It is women above all who should be made to take responsibility for their behaviour. If they choose to tear up a marriage contract or to have children without committing themselves to the father, they should bear the financial burden. Instead of being propped up with benefits or money extorted from rejected men, they should be expected to support themselves through work. This may sound harsh. But if women were forced to recalibrate where their interests lie once they become mothers, the steam would go out of the lone motherhood industry almost overnight. Far more harsh, after all, is the plight of fatherless children. In treating women instead as victims, politicians ignore the real casualties of the egregious failure of its family policy. Labour must stop penalising marriage by Jill Kirby The first, and urgent, step for any Government is to recognise the problems created by the decline of marriage, and to signal its determination to restore this neglected institution. This means acknowledging that its fiscal policies have been misguided. Providing a safety net for the victims of family breakdown is a necessary and compassionate function of welfare, but this must be balanced by clear tax incentives for marriage. A welfare system that penalises married couples, alongside a tax system that ignores them, is a lethal combination. FAMILY
LAW PASTORAL LETTER
(Scottish Catholic Bishops) http://www.scmo.org/_titles/view.asp?id=446 Wednesday, January 25, 2006 Following recent changes in the law relating to family life in Scotland, Archbishop Mario Conti, on behalf of the Bishops of Scotland, has written a pastoral letter on the subject. 65000 copies of the letter have been printed and sent to each of Scotland's 500 Catholic parishes for distribution to Catholic households this weekend (28 - 29 January 2006). The full text of the letter is shown in the full article, preceded by several bullet points which summarise the concerns of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland CATECHETICS
COMMISSION OF THE IRISH BISHOPS' CONFERENCE EDUCATION
IN FAITH Nurturing Our Children's Faith The following article, provided by Lifesite News, explains why Canada is considered the most secular (ie anti-Christian, anti-marriage, and anti-freedom) state in the world and also helps us to understand why the ruling party in Canada was overturned in the election last week. This should act as a warning to the activist secularists who are running Ireland at the moment. All true believers in the preservation of the dignity and liberty of our people must be strengthened by the work of our colleagues in Canada. One of the prominent groups is the United Mothers and Fathers of Canada. It is no coincidence that parents - acting together - should be at the forefront of the defense of democracy and liberty as the secularists have made it their prime target to create a phony war between women and men in order to eradicate the privacy of family life and the authority that parents have to bring up their children according to their conscience. After the shocking exposé on the totalitarianism of the judiciary in Canada I give you the opportunity to renew your hope in mankind by reprinting the latest newsletter, titled "Grassroots success" from the United Mothers and Fathers of Canada. Marriage
and Caste For a while it looked like Hurricane Katrina would accomplish what the NAACP never could: reviving civil rights liberalism as a major force in American politics. There it was for the whole world to see: the United States was two nations, one rich, one poor and largely black, one driving away in the family SUV to sleep in the snug guest rooms of suburban friends and relatives, the other sunk in the fetid misery of the Superdome. Newsweek, echoing Michael Harrington's 1962 landmark book that ignited the War on Poverty, titled its Katrina coverage "The Other America" and warned the nation not to return to the "old evasions, hypocrisies, and not-so-benign neglect" of the "problems of poverty, race, and class."
Women Who Make the World Worse and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Families, Military Schools, and Sports By KATE O'BEIRNE We need a strong women’s/mothers movement (working shoulder to shoulder with the men’s/fathers movement) who are not employed by and funded by the state and so not their pawns and who have sufficient common sense and in |