Parents out!
We are born into a family and there we find love, security and our greatest happiness in life. Surely a rational society, then, would do all it could to support the family.
But the modern state, committed to individual "rights", is determined to smash the family. And many Irish politicians are among the worst offenders in this matter.
The case of baby Charlie Gard and his parents in the UK may help to waken us up to this international anti-family agenda.
In England all the resources of the state were used to thwart the wishes of the parents in seeking the best for their sick child.
Despite the parents' objections a lawyer was appointed to represent the baby in court, as if the father and mother could not be trusted to do what was best for their child.
That this lawyer headed an organisation campaigning for "assisted dying" only added to the insult.
• In Ireland the bid to destroy the family is moving at breakneck speed. Every effort is being made to undermine marriage, the most solid foundation for the family.
• In 2012 a massive campaign persuaded Irish parents to transfer to the state their right to protect their children. The Gard case might have made them less willing to do so today, but it's too late.
• Currently an effort is under way to deprive Catholic parents of the right to provide the hope-filled education they want for their children.
• Most pernicious is the relentless drive to turn women against their own children, with state agencies promoting a fake "equality" and encouraging mothers to leave home and family for work.
We are even asked to accept the perverse notion that a woman's unborn child is her enemy or an obstacle to her happiness.
This revolt against the family is not coming from the people, it is being promoted and funded from the top down, and ultimately from Brussels.
Next year the Irish Church will host the World Meeting of Families. This, please God, will be a wonderful celebration of marriage and family life.
But it also needs to expose and challenge the immense ideological attack on the family taking place today.
But the modern state, committed to individual "rights", is determined to smash the family. And many Irish politicians are among the worst offenders in this matter.
The case of baby Charlie Gard and his parents in the UK may help to waken us up to this international anti-family agenda.
In England all the resources of the state were used to thwart the wishes of the parents in seeking the best for their sick child.
Despite the parents' objections a lawyer was appointed to represent the baby in court, as if the father and mother could not be trusted to do what was best for their child.
That this lawyer headed an organisation campaigning for "assisted dying" only added to the insult.
• In Ireland the bid to destroy the family is moving at breakneck speed. Every effort is being made to undermine marriage, the most solid foundation for the family.
• In 2012 a massive campaign persuaded Irish parents to transfer to the state their right to protect their children. The Gard case might have made them less willing to do so today, but it's too late.
• Currently an effort is under way to deprive Catholic parents of the right to provide the hope-filled education they want for their children.
• Most pernicious is the relentless drive to turn women against their own children, with state agencies promoting a fake "equality" and encouraging mothers to leave home and family for work.
We are even asked to accept the perverse notion that a woman's unborn child is her enemy or an obstacle to her happiness.
This revolt against the family is not coming from the people, it is being promoted and funded from the top down, and ultimately from Brussels.
Next year the Irish Church will host the World Meeting of Families. This, please God, will be a wonderful celebration of marriage and family life.
But it also needs to expose and challenge the immense ideological attack on the family taking place today.
