CARDINAL Sean Brady, Primate of All-Ireland today made another intervention in the abortion debate – his second in 24 hours.
Speaking in Knock, Co. Mayo today he said that we now live in a
twilight sort of world, “where, unfortunately, the perception of the
seriousness of abortion – has grown progressively obscured in the minds
of many of our contemporaries.”
“We pray for courage -
the kind of courage that is needed to look the truth in the eye and to
call it as it is, without yielding to self-deception or bowing to
convenient compromise, scrupulously avoiding ambiguous language which
cloaks the true horror of the situation and reduces its seriousness in
public.” Cardinal Brady said.
Yesterday, Cardinal Brady
said legislators had an obligation to oppose laws that attack something
so fundamental as the right to life.
“The failure by the
Government to allow institutions to opt out of carrying out terminations
on conscientious objection grounds amounted to a denial of fundamental
religious freedoms and thought,” he said.
Also in Knock
today, Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick voiced concerns over the
abortion debate and urged catholics to make their voices heard.
Irish society is today faced with a serious choice. It is very possible that
an abortion regime will be introduced into this country, thereby for the
first time overturning in law the fundamental principle of the
inviolability of innocent human life,” Bishop Leahy said.
“For the sake of the common
good, Catholics need to propose their view on this topic. We do so not
to impose some obscure teaching of our own but rather to respectfully
offer what we consider a reasoned position echoed by many with other
religious or indeed non-religious convictions, convictions based on
human reason,” he said.