Darrell Castle talks about the destruction of Irish Catholicism and the faith of the Irish people caused by the abuse of Irish children.
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THE DEATH OF IRISH CATHOLICISM
Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, March 15, 2019, and since this coming Sunday is St. Patrick’s Day, I will be talking about Ireland, with the goal of uncovering what is going on there. What is happening on the Emerald Isle with regard to the Catholic faith and what has caused it to happen.
St. Patrick’s Day brings back a lot of memories to me, especially of the friends I knew during my military service who were of Irish descent. We were all young, around 22 or 23 years old, and while I was stationed at Quantico near Washington D.C. we used to take the Eastern Shuttle up to New York or Boston for St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Those Irish guys were always a lot of fun but a word of caution is in order.
My advice is to be very cautious about going out on St. Patrick’s Day to have a couple of glasses of Guinness with a few guys named Casey, Quinn, and so forth, because it will not end well I can promise you that. For me though, Winston Churchill’s quote about whiskey is true for Guinness, and that is that I have taken a lot more from Guinness than Guinness has taken from me.
What about today? What’s going on in Ireland today? The Irish are an angry and deeply troubled people right now, so let’s look at what may have caused the sudden changes in that nation over the last few years. Ireland has traditionally been the most conservative and most Catholic country in Europe and, perhaps, in the world. Despite their reputation for drinking and fighting the Irish have always been devoutly Catholic people, until recently, that is.
For example, Pope John Paul ll visited Ireland from September 29 to October 1, 1979, so three days including travel. John Paul was the first Pope in history to visit Ireland. He made his visit a call for peace and an end to the sectarian violence there. When he left his plane he was greeted by the President of Ireland, then flew by helicopter to his first mass where 1.2 million people came out to hear him. That number was one-third of the entire population of the country. In the three days he was there, 2.5 million people heard him live and that was two-thirds of the entire population. He passed along the streets in his bulletproof, glass-enclosed “pope mobile”, and 750,000 people lined the streets just to see him pass by.
Why would almost the entire population of the country receive any man with such joy and excitement? This particular man was loved in a special way and he was also the Vicar of Christ, as they saw it. He sat in Peter’s seat and he was the earthly embodiment of their faith which meant everything to them. The Irish have suffered so much over the centuries from sectarian violence, starvation, and many other things, that the Catholic Church was the one thing they had, the only thing, that was a stable fixture in their lives. It was the place of refuge for their souls and the one place they could trust with their children.
By the way, I’m not Catholic so if I get Catholic protocol a little off, forgive me. I can assure you that I have the utmost respect for members of the Catholic faith and for what the Catholic Church has meant and should still mean in America. However, Catholicism is a centralized top down faith and that makes the problems, accusations, and charges harder to defend. I just examine the facts that have been discovered and somehow try to make sense of something that makes no sense.
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