Until we change the Constitution, we are failing to protect our children

DID the Archbishop of Dublin throw down the gauntlet to the Government last week?

Why would he of all people do that? And why would he choose the issue of children’s rights to do it?

He was speaking to the Mater Dei Institute, on the subject of relations between Church and State. Interestingly, he chose to emphasise at the beginning of his speech that he wasn’t suggesting in any sense that the new government was more anti-church than the previous one. He then went on to give something of a lecture to the new Minister for Education (whom he didn’t name) about the need for continued pluralism in our school system.