A wound at the heart of Europe

MAY I avail of some bit of space to make this comment on abortion, on this cascade of destruction wrought on those to whom we owe the greatest solidarity and duty of care.

The first right we all possessed was the right to be born.

But today legal permissive abortion is a fact of life so deeply embedded and even normalised in many lands that it is deemed a taboo to mention it to people who might glow white-hot over other aspects of justice.

We must ask how will a society, a highly rights-aware European one, regard itself and its culture, permeated with its Christian and Christmas origins, if it gives its approval to all this?

This practice of abortion is indeed a mortal wound at Europe’s heart.

Fr Tom Kelleher

Kinsale

Co Cork