Ireland and Rome
The referendum on “same-sex marriage” in the Republic of Ireland demonstrates that the power of the Church of Rome over the Irish people has been greatly weakened in recent times. The result means that Ireland is now the first country in the world to legalise such abominable unions through a popular vote. Responding to the result, the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, pointed out that “most of these young people who voted yes are products of our Catholic school system for 12 years. I’m saying there’s a big challenge there to see how we get across the message of the Church.”
But the “message of the [Roman Catholic] Church”, however well it might be communicated, will certainly not arrest the frightening pace of moral decay. Only the revival of true, biblical Christianity and an outpouring of a spirit of repentance can stop the further erosion of common decency and morality which is now so dreadfully apparent, not only in the Republic of Ireland and in the United Kingdom but throughout the western world. AWM