Fr. Mc Manus on Cardinal Dolan’s IRA Rant
Posted By: March 05, 2015
Fr. Mc Manus on Cardinal Dolan’s IRA Rant
Capitol Hill. March 5, 2015— Fr. Sean Mc Manus, President of the Capitol Hill-based Irish National Caucus, released this statement on Cardinal Dolan’s appalling outburst.
The Irish National Caucus is non-violent, with no foreign principal. It has never sent funds to Ireland, for any reason.
Fr. Mc Manus said the Cardinal’s statement, equating the IRA to ISIS was:
“Profoundly ignorant, totally irresponsible and lacking all credibility. It is sadly consistent with a man who for forty years never opened his mouth about the oppression of Catholics in Northern Ireland. Such a person as Cardinal Dolan — who was complicit by his silence in British torture of political prisoners, anti-Catholic discrimination, British murder gangs and the wholesale denial of human rights— has now no moral authority to comment on the struggle of an oppressed people. He forfeited that right by his complicity and collusion. His johnny-come-lately and cowardly outburst only further deepens his own complicity, and further abuses his spiritual power.”
Capitol Hill. March 5, 2015— Fr. Sean Mc Manus, President of the Capitol Hill-based Irish National Caucus, released this statement on Cardinal Dolan’s appalling outburst.
The Irish National Caucus is non-violent, with no foreign principal. It has never sent funds to Ireland, for any reason.
Fr. Mc Manus said the Cardinal’s statement, equating the IRA to ISIS was:
“Profoundly ignorant, totally irresponsible and lacking all credibility. It is sadly consistent with a man who for forty years never opened his mouth about the oppression of Catholics in Northern Ireland. Such a person as Cardinal Dolan — who was complicit by his silence in British torture of political prisoners, anti-Catholic discrimination, British murder gangs and the wholesale denial of human rights— has now no moral authority to comment on the struggle of an oppressed people. He forfeited that right by his complicity and collusion. His johnny-come-lately and cowardly outburst only further deepens his own complicity, and further abuses his spiritual power.”
