This man is the Prime Minister of Ireland, a politician who has the courage to make a forthright statement - to a sparsley-attended session of the Parliament - a speech that has now been published and distributed world-wide, one that I hope you will all choose to view, as well. Members of the Irish Parliament knew in advance that this speech was to be made; look at the empty seats they provided so that they might profess ignorance of the importance of this address...! A cowardly refuge...
Enda Kenny is the epitome of all things that are the best of the Irish. In this speech, he shows his intelligence, astounding courage, decency, fairness, and eloquence.
Now, readers of SWIFT will know that I do not share the honorable gentleman's religious views, but I stand with him when I find that he speaks out against any sort of child abuse, especially when it originates with those who we might expect to be trustworthy. The Vatican has tried - vainly - to suppress this sort of public exposure of their crimes, and now this PM has stepped up to reveal to the world what should have been known, fully and clearly, long ago: children are being abused physically, emotionally and secretly, daily, while the Holy (?) See does everything it can to suppress the facts.
This speech will go down in history, an awesome move by Ireland's top politician that cannot now be stopped.
The now-beatified Pope Jean-Paul visited Ireland in 1979 and assured the children of that country that he loved them. Did he know of the pedophiles who infested the Church? Now that he's in Heaven, he surely knows... Does he see - as I do - the despicable state of his former fiefdom?
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And weep, as I did.