Courtney McGrailDear Editor, I was at Mass this morning and picked up the bishops’ postcard for Ireland’s Day for Life. I was dismayed to find Mary Robinson pictured on the postcard.
Mary Robinson was for the legalisation of abortion as early as 1998. How in God’s holy name could our bishops use her as a symbol for life? I was of course upset by the ecology theme in a year when the unborn child is at its most vulnerable due to the government’s policy to have a whitewash of a citizen’s assembly regarding a referendum on the repeal of the Eighth Amendment.
The Eighth Amendment is the only protection that the unborn child has. The mind boggles really.
St John Paul initiated this Day for Life to promote life from womb to tomb. Look up any link and you’ll find why this saintly man introduced this day. The Irish bishops have used it to promote any cause, except that for which it was initiated. Great to be for saving the earth, but we’re all for that so it doesn’t take much courage. Courage is when you go against the mainstream and help the vulnerable, even when it is not popular.
Yours etc.,
Loretta O’Connor,
Bishopstown, Cork.
