IRELAND, June 25, 2018, (LifeSiteNews) – When a priest failed to show up to say Mass this weekend, a female member of the parish — who coordinated the Government’s campaign to legalize abortion — took control of the sanctuary.
Multiple Irish news outlets are saying that Culture Minister Josepha Madigan stepped up to “say Mass,” giving the impression that anyone and everyone is eligible to conduct the sacrament, which only ordained priests, as Christ’s representatives, are able to do.
The Irish Herald reports that when no priest arrived, and parishioners waiting to fulfill their Sunday duty were left abandoned in the pews:
When the richness of orthodoxy is abandoned; when the magnificent treasures of the Magisterium of the Church are left behind to collect dust as if they have no value, popular culture steps in to fill the void. Worse, sometimes evil steps in to take its place.
We see this in the fact that in record time, Ireland became the first nation in the world to approve same-sex "marriage" by popular vote and, shortly after, voters raced to approve abortion, while limiting the human rights of unborn children.
Another disturbing thing is the pew-sitting Catholics apparently did nothing to stop this abuse from continuing, but went along with it.
Ms. Madigan has told more than one news source that her faith is “extremely important” to her, yet all indications are that her faith is unrecognizable to orthodox Catholics.
Why did nobody attempt to stop this abuse?
Liberal Catholicism — which is overtaking Ireland and much of the world — is not real Catholicism. It is something alien to the faith given to us by Christ through the apostles. It has a completely different set of beliefs.
Liberal Catholicism, in all its sickness and disorder, was on full display at the Church of St Therese in Mount Merrion.
While the beloved outward signs of the real Catholic faith may not be entirely rejected, they serve only to camouflage the intrusion of worldly, even Satanic, beliefs, lending legitimacy to that which is wholly illegitimate.
This new cultural system which is striving to establish itself as the norm of Catholicism represents the world’s “ideological colonization” of the Church about which Pope Francis spoke in a 2016 address to Polish bishops.
The Emerald Isle perhaps serves as a giant unmistakable metaphor — and as such, a neon warning sign — concerning what is happening in the Catholic Church at large.