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Cardinal Sean Brady invites Pope Francis to make papal visit to Ireland

New church leader reminded of Irish links with Argentina

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Published Friday, March 15, 2013, 8:21 AM

Updated Friday, March 15, 2013, 9:50 AM

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The new Pope has been invited to Ireland – and the sooner he accepts the invitation the better according to Cardinal Sean Brady.

The Catholic Church boss in Ireland has revealed his plans to extend a Cead Mile Failte to Pope Francis according to the Irish Sun newspaper.

The paper says Cardinal Brady wants to persuade the Argentinean to put Ireland top of his list for a papal visit.

Speaking to reporters at the Irish College in Rome, Cardinal Brady admitted that he has yet to ask Jorge Bergoglio to visit Ireland after his election.

But he revealed: “We will be inviting him to Ireland, I’m sure of that, when an appropriate occasion occurs.

“We have strong links with Argentina as a nation and I will remind him of that!

“Irishman Admiral William Brown was the founder of the Argentinean navy. He’s a Co Mayo man, from Foxford in Co Mayo.”

Cardinal Brady, a first time attendant at the two-day Vatican conclave, also spoke of his experience.
He said: “The events inside the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday night were touching.

“It was very moving as the votes were being counted and the names resounding out - Bergoglio, Bergoglio - and suddenly the magic number was reached and there was applause.

“Each cardinal then took turns to congratulate the new Pontiff. I went up and said, ‘I bring you the love and the prayers and the affection of the Irish people, there have been historic links between Ireland and Argentina.’

“And he said, ‘I want to ask for your continued prayers and I send you my blessing’.”
Cavanman Brady, 73, also admitted to initial surprise at the election of the 76-year-old prelate from Buenos Aires.

He added: “The vote was an historic event for many reasons. The Papacy has gone across the Atlantic to the New World for the first time.

“Pope Francis, a big statement in itself. First time a Jesuit. He is a man with simple style of life, an emphasis on the poor and he is a witness to heroic practical love.”

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jacersagain | Mar 20, 2013, 10:13 PM EDT

(...more) I’ve surrendered, without a proud badge, in recognition of the ability of a Supreme Authority, a Supreme Power, to resurrect to life again in whatever dominion He keeps for all good people, one that Saints Patrick, Brigid and Columcille already know and continue to this day to teach us about. I graciously submit to and accept the power of a loving Supreme Power, its simple love and magnormity in my ordinary life as a believing dad and a family man. All Praise be to God in His humble Irish shamrock-pictured Holy Trinity, one God in Three, forever and ever, amen. Just as Cardinal Brady and all his fellow-Christians do every day and like people like Seamus60 and others like Seanomelb should at least give a kick at re-discovering, might make a tiny effort at doing. There’s no lack of opportunities for it, or any "shame" anywhere in our tiny speck of an earth-like place in God’s world of His Spatial Universe. (By the peace and love of our Christ, there’s no more ‘mores’ from me tonight. People like seamus60 can get down on their knees and thank Jesus for that – from Ireland “G’nite ‘n God bless all).

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jacersagain | Mar 20, 2013, 10:07 PM EDT

(...more) Go figure out the huge power of a God to create a whole *starry* Universe without your help or ICentral post's submission, if you can. Like every Pope since Peter, and like every Christ-follower since him and since his fellow-Apostles’ times, I can’t figure that power out. IrishCentral and their journalistic cohorts continually fail to report on the miracles that happen daily. Yes, I can understand why some people have “bad” and un- understandable un-welcomed things happen in their lives (check back to Niall O'Dowd's testomonies) but, if you stop to think about it, “bad” things happen within the lives of those who reject or disbelieve in the power of an Almighty Being and of those who laughingly reject the power of The Almighty. Once they accept the power of the Almighty exists, as many who suffered such “bad”-ness in their lives have found, things change in their lives for the good. (oh yes it does!... more...)

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jacersagain | Mar 20, 2013, 10:00 PM EDT

(...more) The exceptional and holy vocations of these priviilged to be holy people are solely and solidly built around speaking of the love of God, of God’s Merciful forgiveness to all repentant, of the responsibility of teaching those who know nothing about the Miracle of the Risen Christ (even people without belief who turn up at Christian Churches for Baptisms, Confirmations and Funerals), of the huge effort that the original Apostles of Christ made to travel and speak about the effects of that immense world-life-long Resurrection of His, His power in bringing a dead man, Lazarus, to life again, of His own-powered immense Resurrection to life again (which all Christians around the world will specially celebrate soon, not ignoring why people attend Mass and Eucharist celebrations of the Resurrection daily) and especially, very especially, of the humility of a young woman, widely-known today as the Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception, in accepting an undesired impregnation of her teenager's womb and the responsibility of bearing a Child in her womb, conceived jointly with, and by her submission to, the Holy Spirit of God, to be born to change the world forever from that time. (...more)

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jacersagain | Mar 20, 2013, 09:51 PM EDT

(...more) But the vast majority of Lay Men and Women, Deacons and Deaconesses, Priests, Monks, Nuns, Abbots, Abbesses, Bishops and Cardinals in our own Parishes, Bishoprics and Dioceses in all our countries are bluddy good at what they are called to do, doing what the Holy Spirit requires of them (ok, some are useless at doing what we mere Christians of the streets expect of them with our own selfish demands for different things that matter selfishly only to us) - but that’s not what their vocations are about (i.e. doing what the Holy Spirit of God expects of them) (dam the nits! They keep eating away so there’s more, and more mores!...).

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jacersagain | Mar 20, 2013, 09:46 PM EDT

Seamus60, I think yr "sham" claim post displays utter ignorance of how the RCC works and I think you have no right, in your judgement vs the judgement of the hugely-qualified and experienced abilities of people who make up the RCC (including its lay people), especially any of our Blessed Popes under guidance of the Holy Spirit, to nominate people like Cardinal Brady to be Cardinals, or which priest in any part of the world, by the local laity and their local priests under guidance of the Holy Spirit, should be opined by them to be ordained with the responsibilities of being a Bishop or Arch-Bishop. The Cardinals, like any Pope, are chosen under intense prayerful guidance by a Holy Spirit that belongs to all Christians and to all people, even those who reject beliefs in the Holy Spirit or a God Almighty, for a reason of the Holy Spirit’s own unknown purposes, for a job that none of them wants (e.g. ask Cardinal Brady about that, or my Archbishop Dermot of my Dublin or Bishops and Cardinals in the USA, or any of the Christian Bishops and Cardinals in the UK, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle-East, the Americas or China, not to mention the recently-elected Popes of Constantinople and of the Coptic Church and of the RCC.. ask all of them about that). (More...)

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seamus60 | Mar 16, 2013, 07:48 AM EDT

Nothing but another sham. Allowing people like Brady to have a vote in the first place is hardly sending out the right signal. At least one Cardinal who should be in a prison cell instead of any conclave, Seriously doubt he was the only one.

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darao | Mar 15, 2013, 11:42 PM EDT

Why not wait and see if thies new leader takes steps and actions first to address the abuses of the church on men, women, children and the entrenched evasion of open transparency before inviting him to Ireland: 1. Let priests marry. 2. Let women be priests as full humans of equal rights. 3. Let same sex marriage be performed in support of loving equality of all people. 4. Tell women that the church has no problem with their choices in birth control and reproductive rights. Church out of the bedrooms of the people! 5. Stand up and say child abusers will be excommunicated and reported to the police right away instead of covering up their sexual assaults and buggery of children. Stand up! Be counted! Be strong! Be fair! and let men and women participate without being in a hateful discriminatory environment.

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awoken32 | Mar 15, 2013, 12:51 PM EDT

The new pope was arrested in 1976 in connection to his knowledge an involvment in argentines dirty war,just another bad man in a high position of power,nothing has changed amongst the elitest structure throughout the world,keep the masses in servitude to these phoneys

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Seanmor | Mar 15, 2013, 08:35 AM EDT

Yes, Mayoman John Welliam Browne founded the Argentine navy, and Tyroneman Archbishop Hughes set the groundwork for St. Patrick's Cathedral. Now the powers that be in the Dáil officially regard County Tyrone as part of G. B. Will they soon NOT recognize the Cardinal in Armagh as the Primate, since- according to them - Armagh is also a British county?

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