Values that are alien to the Irish

As the debate on abortion progresses, we, Catholic people of Ireland, need to take stock and decide how we cope with what confronts us.

It is clear that the secular/pagan agenda being presented to the Irish people is designed to sweep aside the old certainties that served us well through good times and bad, down through the ages.

It is also clear that the misdeeds and awful crimes committed against innocent children by a minority of Catholic clergy has resulted in a loss of moral authority at every level of our poor Church, and has effectively silenced it at the very time that the Irish people, of every religion and none, so desperately need sound leadership and values.