Enda Kennys Office Resorts To Misinformation About Popes View on Lisbon Treaty.

In a series of e mails sent by this site to the office of Enda Kenny the following statement was made by Mr Duffy, perporting to speak on behald of Mr Kenny;

“The situation regarding the unborn in EU law is clear and unambiguous. The EU cannot take a stance on the issue, therefore Irish constitutional law on the issue cannot be changed, as indeed the Catholic hierarchy has confirmed from its own legal advice. Had the treaty facilitated abortion, the Catholic Church throughout Europe would have come out against the treaty. In every state it is either neutral leaning towards the treaty, or explicitly pro-treaty. Pope Benedict XVI has dismissed claims on abortion made by some anti-treaty groups. The Holy See has made it unambiguously clear that the treaty does not in any way change the Union’s stance on abortion, and cannot do so. “

Regards,

Jim Duffy
Policy Officer for Justice,
Defence & Foreign Affairs
Office of the Leader of Fine Gael
Leinster House
Dublin 2.

Tel: 6184041
Fax: 6184618
email: jim.duffy@oireachtas.ie

Hidden Ireland cannot find anywhere that the Pope has said this. When Jim Duffy was asked for an authority for the Popes alledged comment he failed to reply. As did Mr Kenny and Mr Bruton, who were all contacted regarding this.

Why would Mr Kennys office say this if it isnt true? Perhaps in order to disentangle themselves from difficult questions regarding the status of the Unborn Child under the Lisbon Treaty. After all, the simpletons who are concerned with the Unborn Child are just daft Catholics right, who will believe anything, especially if it might have come from the Pope…………

Think again Mr Duffy et al.

We might be Catholics but we are not stupid. In fact quite the opposite, we actually have the sense and reason our Faith gives us, something which modern Fine Gael cannot comprehend.

How shamefull of you, what would our contstitutional founders have said to such shenanigans.