tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post7527878729212126313..comments2024-03-20T10:42:44.550+00:00Comments on ROMAN CHRISTENDOM: Remembrance Day 2011 - St Martin's MassTribunushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-71495126679789773262012-02-08T20:17:02.425+00:002012-02-08T20:17:02.425+00:00Agreed!Agreed!Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-8366843972707008902012-02-05T04:29:21.790+00:002012-02-05T04:29:21.790+00:00Sorry for the belated response but this was a very...Sorry for the belated response but this was a very well written and informative post. While my very young grandfather (US 106th Infantry) fought for the US, his half brother and maternal uncles fought with the Connuaght Rangers. I am not aware of how they were treated after the war but at least one of them emigrated to the states. My grandfather died before I was born @ 42 y/o primarily from the effects of being gassed. The 106th had 2,000 casualties of a total of 3,000 men......all in a few months in 1918. What a terrible waste of an entire generation of men for a war of dubious purpose. It also laid the foundations for fascism and communism which further claimed the lives of hundreds of millions. In many ways I am glad that the 20th century is over but fear that the 21st may be even worse. In the USA we have two major parties which are possessed by the neoconservative ideology. Tribunus, we need to pray and hope for permanent peace that only Our Lord can give us.PJMULVEYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06225536270911550594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-9017868721749639672012-01-04T15:13:23.549+00:002012-01-04T15:13:23.549+00:00Bishop O'Dwyer was simply wrong.
The First Wo...Bishop O'Dwyer was simply wrong.<br /><br />The First World War was not "England's war".<br /><br />Ireland gained a great deal from English rule, at least in the early centuries, however much the Protestant rule was oppressive, immoral and brutal.<br /><br />It is a fact that Pope Hadrian IV gave his blessing to the English take-over of Ireland, then a papal fief, as did Diarmuid MacMurrough, King of Leinster. Ireland was in a state of lawless anarchy. The Pope and King Henry II sought to rectify that.<br /><br />You yourself admit to the benefit of having Philip II of Spain as temporary King of Ireland (blessed by the Pope) but this would not have happened without the earlier arrival of King Henry II.<br /><br />It is also a fact that tens of thousands of Irish Catholic men volunteered not only for the Royal Irish Constabulary but also for the British armed forces in World War I and II.<br /><br />Rightly or wrongly, they did not agree with Bishop O'Dwyer.<br /><br />My view is that the First World War was a disaster for Europe and, to that extent, I agree that both England and Ireland would have been better out of it.<br /><br />However, I shall not, like you, cast aspersions on the name of those brave men who fought and died in it, thinking they were doing so for the liberty of Belgium and knowing that the Home Rule Act of 1914 would be carried into force in Ireland after the war was over.<br /><br />They were very brave men and you, if you are a true Irish Catholic, should honour their sacrifice and not mock it.<br /><br />Come on, Shane. You can do better.Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-10930077885202572772012-01-04T15:11:18.714+00:002012-01-04T15:11:18.714+00:00When the rebels of 1916 were arrested and taken th...When the rebels of 1916 were arrested and taken through the streets of Dublin they were booed and brickbatted. They had zero popularity.<br /><br />Sinn Fein did not win the elections of 1918. It had less than half the vote!<br /><br />And when the secret Dail Eireann voted in favour of the Treaty what did that "democrat" and "man of the people" de Valera do? He thumbed his nose at them and walked out!<br /><br />And then he started a vicious and illegal civil war when Irishman slaughtered Irishmen in far greater numbers than ever the Brits did!<br /><br />Not only that, but the Free State government felt obliged to do what the Brits had never done in Ireland. <br /><br />It interned no less than 11,000 IRA suspects and had 100 of them shot for treason and terrorism!<br /><br />The brutish and heathen IRA even assassinated the Justice Minister, Kevin O'Higgins.<br /><br />When this failed to stir up enough trouble they then murdered, in cold blood, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, an Irishman who had never harmed any fellow Irishman.<br /><br />Even de Valera could no longer stomach the IRA and broke from them in 1926 to form Fianna Fail.<br /><br />IRA republican nationalists in the North of Ireland have murdered and bombed innocent civilians and tortured many more time and time and time again.<br /><br />They are disgustingly brutal criminals.<br /><br />This is the record of republican nationalism and where has it got Ireland?<br /><br />Nowhere.<br /><br />Now Ireland has become yet another typically secularist state.Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-12376062793153922002012-01-04T15:09:17.910+00:002012-01-04T15:09:17.910+00:00On the other hand, I agree with your admiration fo...On the other hand, I agree with your admiration for the idea of making Don John of Austria king of Ireland.<br /><br />I also agree that post-revolutionary French Catholicism, afflicted with so many similar problems as the Irish Church, is not at all the "gold standard" of Catholicism. Far from it!<br /><br />Likewise, your defence of the stand of the Counts of Tyrconnell and Tyrone is a worthy one.<br /><br />But like far too many ill-instructed Irish republican-nationalists, you falsely and - to be frank - intellectually dishonestly pretend that these noble Catholic Irishmen can be equated with the terrorist republican nationalists of modern times - scoundrels like the anti-clerical, Church-hating Communists James Connelly (1916) and Adams and McGuiness (today).<br /><br />For a start both O'Neill and O'Donnell were sincere and dedicated Catholic monarchists!<br /><br />You also quite rightly rail against the modern day "Jacobins" of modern Secularist Ireland, quoting Catholic World Report's reporting of the closure of the Vatican embassy, thus:<br /><br />"...Ireland’s cocky secularists don’t care. Like third-rate Jacobins, they seek to rebuild Irish society from scratch, using the Church’s recent disgraces as an anticlerical pretext to turn their backs on history, tradition, and faith..."<br /><br />but fail to recognise that Ireland's republican-nationalists all derived their inspiration from the French Jacobins!<br /><br />How can you republican nationalists continue to make such obviously crass blunders??<br /><br />For a start, Irish republican nationalism was a Liberal Protestant and revolutionary idea, introduced from revolutionary France by Liberal Protestants like Wolfe Tone, Lord Edward Fitzgerald and Robert Emmet.<br /><br />It was the Ulster Presbyterians who first championed republican nationalism and for the same reasons that Cromwell, the Butcher of Drogheda, did!<br /><br />Anti-clerical Republican nationalism was the brain-child of John Calvin and his fanatically Protestant republican nationalist dictatorship in Geneva and Cromwell in England.<br /><br />And you want that for Ireland?<br /><br />Madness.Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-10268539368731217722012-01-04T15:07:56.374+00:002012-01-04T15:07:56.374+00:00Well, Shane, your comment unfortunately exemplifie...Well, Shane, your comment unfortunately exemplifies the very contradictions that afflict Ireland and which, on your blog, you claim so much to eschew and detest.<br /><br />If you got this quote from the "Irish Identity" website then you should hang your head yet further in shame.<br /><br />For that website also states (as do so many fanatical Irish nationalist republicans):<br /><br />"The behaviour of the Catholic Church Bishops during the centuries of British occupation was a scandal and gravely damaged religion."<br /><br />Actually, the real scandal has been the utterly heathenish and devilish misconduct and diabolical hatred and savagery of the nationalist republicans.<br /><br />They are men who had no fear of God and who were willing to cause the greatest suffering to the most innocent of beings.<br /><br />Nothing could be more satanic than that. <br /><br />And few things have done more damage to the Catholic religion than fanatical Irish nationalist republican hatred and terrorism masquerading as Catholicism.<br /><br />It never was Catholicism. <br /><br />It always was a form of heathendom - cruel, heartless, savage, brutal and pagan.<br /><br />Let me add that this is not to defend the legacy of British cruelty in Ireland. That, too, was a form of heathenism and also to be condemned for the same reason. But at least it never pretended to be Catholic.<br /><br />In fact, the comment of Bishop O'Dwyer - not at all a view of the other Irish bishops - was made in the context of mob attacks on Irismen leaving Liverpool for America. Those attacks were stopped by the British government and police whom you seem to despise so much.<br /><br />On your blog you extol Cardinal Cullen but he was one of the Irish bishops most strongly opposed to Fenianism and republican nationalist separatism.<br /><br />You also recognise that, since the declaration of the Republic, Ireland has sunk into a miasma of Secularism.<br /><br />The "freedom" that you so much claim for Ireland seems to have been nothing but disaster for the country religiously.<br /><br />On your blog, you rightly take to task George Weigel for his facile critique of Irish Catholicism but you fail to recognise that, whilst close ties between Church and State are good, the excessive closeness between Archbishop John McQuaid and the terrorist-murderer, Eamon de Valera, tended to harm the true interests of Ireland and the Irish Church.Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-88667283072850241432012-01-03T00:48:53.374+00:002012-01-03T00:48:53.374+00:00I'm more inclined to agree with the then Bisho...I'm more inclined to agree with the then Bishop of Limerick, Dr. Thomas O'Dwyer:<br /><br />"Their crime is that they are not ready to die for England. Why should they? What have they or their forbears got from England, they they should die for? It is England’s war, not Irelands."Shanehttp://lxoa.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-77479337574928855762011-12-03T11:53:38.541+00:002011-12-03T11:53:38.541+00:00Yes, that's right - St Martin's Day was ch...Yes, that's right - St Martin's Day was chosen for that reason.Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-17228114760422170672011-11-26T09:24:52.581+00:002011-11-26T09:24:52.581+00:00I've seen it suggested that Armistice Day (11 ...I've seen it suggested that Armistice Day (11 Nov 1917) was determined on because of a tradition that armistices would take effect from St Martin's Feast. <br /><br />This seems unlikely to me. Do you know anything about this?Felixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-15901570433264382192011-11-24T02:27:37.874+00:002011-11-24T02:27:37.874+00:00CONGRATULATIONS! FANTASTIC BLOG!
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