The Republic's senior Anglican churchman has questioned whether Irish society has begun to wrestle with a breakdown in human decency.In his Easter message, the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Neill, cites the recent murder in Drimnagh of two young Polish men as an instance of the "horror" which is being inflicted by unscrupulous killers.
Referring to the brutal murder of Marius Szwajkos and Pawel Kalite, Archbishop Neill says: "We wring our hands in horror and so we should.
"Have we even begun to wrestle with the breakdown in values, the shattering of community values and family values that underlie so much of the violence in our midst," he asks.
The Archbishop also points out that many of the casualties of our modern society -- from addiction, alienation and suicide -- can be the direct result of "the failure to take seriously the implications for living in this world -- God's world -- with the values that God has shown to us".
"In raising Jesus, God also placed unique value on human life and its potential to share in the very life of God. In Jesus, risen from the dead, a new way of living, of relating to God and relating to each other is laid open," Archbishop Neill writes.
"The Easter affirmation 'Christ has been raised from the dead' is about an event that reaches to the heart of Christian worship, but which must burst out into the world in which we live," the Archbishop's message concludes.
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