No Amnesty

Has anyone ever been convicted of sexually abusing Colm O'Gorman? Aside from his own claims decades after the event, if there ever was one, is there any evidence at all of his ever having been abused by anyone? Yet he has made, and continues to make, a very successful career out of it. There is no mistaking how much he enjoys his status.

And he is of course the man who has turned Amnesty International, founded by a Catholic as an expression of his Catholicism, into Abortion International. Ah, there's the rub. Why do they only ever come after the Catholic Church? Well, when has Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt, Channel Four, Stephen Fry, Peter Tatchell, Germaine Greer, or any of the rest of them ever opposed abortion? So they can support pederasty on principle, seeking to make it legally and socially acceptable, while those who act under their influence can do so with absolute impunity. Only those who break the clear Teaching of the Catholic Church run any risk of well-deserved prosecution or castigation.

As for the idea that any of this will damage the Church in Ireland, both the Republic, and the "Green" side in Northern Ireland, are already polarised to the point of pillarisation between practising Catholics and tediously, tiresomely professional ex-Catholics and anti-Catholics. The two are more or less evenly matched in the Republic and the secularists are a distinct minority in the North, but in both jurisdictions the neo-Jacobins enjoy all - absolutely all - of the cultural and political power. In the North, Sinn Fein is already using the Irish language (not historically a Nationalist cause at all) as its device for creating preferentially funded schools in competition with those of the Church. It will do so in the Republic, too, as soon as its votes are needed in the Dail.

Nothing that the Pope could have said would have drawn anything but fury and derision from the ruling element, simply because the Pope said it. The same is true of anything done by Cardinal Brady or Cardinal Anything Else. So that element can hardly be surprised when the culturally and politically excluded and oppressed Catholics react by automatically defending without condition or qualification any such word or deed.

Meanwhile, the goings on in Germany and Austria may at least lead to the end of the situation whereby every ageing hippy who chooses to pay the church tax imagines that that constitutes the right to demand this, that or the other. Is the Hair generation, still identifying as such, noted for its opposition to pederasty, which that piece glorifies by name in song? Are those who have lowered the Dutch age of consent to 12 and caused abortion and contraception to be administered in schools without parental knowledge and consent? One could go on. And on. And on.