Irish Catholics
The Kansas City Star today is carrying a lengthy article on the state of Catholicism in Ireland, and how Irish people feel about being Catholic:
In April, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern promised that same-sex “civil partnerships” would be legalized there.
Outrage would have been the predictable reaction from Irish prelates. After all, the church had vetted the 1937 constitution, requiring the government to protect the institution of marriage; it had kept contraceptives out of bedrooms until 1979 and divorce illegal until 1997.
Instead, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin gave a cautious blessing to the idea of legal rights for all kinds of caring, dependent relationships, not just gay. He called it the “Christian way.”
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