Order should clarify position - National Maternity Hospital

Anyone familiar with the ongoing debacle over the National Maternity Hospital might be forgiven for thinking that the Sisters of Charity is an enclosed religious order whose members take not only vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, but also a vow of silence.

A glance at the order’s website shows it doesn’t. Yet, on the subject of ownership and control of the proposed new hospital, they are keeping mum.

It is not as if the Sisters are afraid to speak out on controversial subjects. Indeed, the order’s website offers an endorsement of the plan to criminalise the purchase of sex.