Tag: Church and State

  • Church’s abuses and the complicity of the ruling class

    Church’s abuses and the complicity of the ruling class

    The report into historical sexual abuse in schools run by religious orders has once again brought to the spotlight the utter depravity of the Church. 

  • Catholic Church: scandals, abuses and cover-ups

    Catholic Church: scandals, abuses and cover-ups

    Yet another abuse scandal involving the Catholic Church has come to light, this time uncovered by the RTÉ documentary “Blackrock Boys”, which tells of a Spiritan priest who abused his position as an ‘educator’ to prey on young children and eventually rape two brothers at Blackrock College during the 1970s.  

  • Irish referendum – revolutionary implications

    Irish referendum – revolutionary implications

    Irish voters have decisively voted in favour of marriage equality, making Ireland the first country to do so through the ballot box. This was a victory of the future against the past, of the young against the old, of reason against ignorance, of the forward-looking urban areas against the old backward rural Ireland.