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Holy mess: 11 million Irish Americans leave Catholic Church
By Niall O’Dowd
Published Friday, September 25, 2009, 7:35 AM
Updated Friday, September 25, 2009, 10:13 AM
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A new survey shows 34 million Americans, or 15 percent of the population, say they have no religion.
Even more significant is that one-third of those, about 11 million people, are Irish Americans.
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We can only surmise the reasons for this, but I have some definite ideas. Think church sex scandals.
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Why are so many Irish Catholics leaving the faith? The obvious reason to me is the church sex scandals. They disproportionately affected Irish Catholics and most of the abusers we read about were Irish Catholic priests.
Certainly, based on evidence from Ireland where hundreds of thousands have fled the church and vocations have plummeted after the church scandals there, America with a similar experience is unlikely to be any different.
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[JR: I apologize for the length of this endnote and the tone. But I really got my shorts into a knot.]
We are in the Age of Secular Progressivism. The New Age. The Culture of Death has taken over.
The Church sex scandals are certainly a factor. BUT not the only one.
The “Government’s” desire to reign supreme was another factor. Personally, I beleive that the “Government”, and it’s lacky “liberal” secular progressive socialist media allowed, the Church to fall. It deliberately turned a blind eye to the sex scandal as it was developing. Allowed it to worsen and fester. Like an untreated wound. In a deliberate attempt to kill the one entity that though out the ages has opposed “the King”. And, given aid and comfort to the serfs while rallying the “revolutionaries”. So the government failed to protect the people and their abused children, deliberately and cynically, to kill a rival for the people’s affection and loyalty. The Church was a rival. It had to die.
The Church leadership’s desire to be close to the wealthy politicians was another factor. Look at all the Catholic In Name Only (CINO) politicians — Ted Kennedy, for one giant example. He went over to the Secular Progressives and abortion in the early Seventies. (See his early writing on the Right To Life.) Yet, the Bishops never called him out on it. I beleive they did it for the “power” and money he represented. Look at John Kennedy, the First Irish Catholic President? What a joke. The morals of an alley cat. But was never called out by the Church. And, on and on. CINO Politician after CINO politician was never called on the carpet. Nancy Pelosi deliberately mis-states the Church on abortion and she gets a private hand slap. The Church leadership embraced what they supposedly opposed. And, that lie, the lip service, the mockery, the pharisaicalness destroyed the loyalty of the people to the Church.
Another factor, the Church “allowed” the government’s “public education”. The Government, like all totalitarian regimes, wanted to indoctrinate the young. Horace Mann brought the Prussian model to the USA to make cannon fodder and factory workers. Note that the elite NEVER send their children to “public schools”. The Church should have fought and died on that particular “hill”. By surrendering education to the Government, they were dead any way. It should have been litigated by all the great Catholic lawyers on Constitutional grounds, on Freedom of Religion grounds.
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