Priest sparks outrage after allowing mother to outline her abortion during Mass

Mamaginnty. Good post . sorry for your loss.

BishopSean!! I agree with some of what you had to say. Some women resort to abortion because of shame and social pressures and accept abortion as the "easy way out". Society must take blame for women in this category. Some treat pregnant women (out of wedlock) as disgusting and inferior,thus making abortion in these cases a free card. I doubt your percentage of 83% but I suppose it's possible. I do not believe in abortion in most cases but I do not have to live with the consequences of those who exercise their rights in this matter.

Children are exposed to much worse every single day on the news and television, and our President made sure his position was known to his own daughters and the world: they shouldn't be 'burdened' with children. It IS rare that they ever hear the other side, that life is sacred and we aren't just animals. There is always someone to be offended by Christianity, the presence of children for such a talk is not a convincing reason to object to this.

Culchiewoman, I agree with you. the church new it takes two to make a baby, yet up until a few years ago the unmarried mother gave birth, but had to face insults that they were tramps, sinners, unholy, etc. from the priests and nuns, and the innocent cchild sold to profit the church. When a woman through no fault of her own has a miscarriage at home or in hospital, being less than three months pregnant, the priest does not rush to bless what she has lost, nor will the loss be buried in a catholic graveyard. It happened to me. So do not tell me the church is all about life in the womb. ( the more babies born alive to 'them', only means more catholics in the cult )

"Outrage"-- fair enough! Now when will we see "outrage" over priests like Kansas City Fr. Ratigan, with Bishop Robert W. Finn's approval, taking dozens of grade-school girls and boys to Washington for a “March for Life” anti-choice rally and returning with computer-stored photos of little girls' genitals? As long as the Church continues to indoctrinate children with its messages about mothers being murders-at-will, you'd be foolish to expect that priests will safeguard your little ones. Not until you get the misogynist politics out of your religion.

Once again, an unmarried man makes a decision about Women's Right to Choose and it bites him in the ass. Including priests, if men are against abortion shut your mouths and get a damned vasectomy!!

That church was & is a pox on the Irish people.

What a STUPID thing to do!

This is the first I’ve read of such an occurrence during a mass celebration of the Holy Eucharist. I doubt it was primarily a Children’s Mass as headlined by ICentral above. I think it may have been an ordinary Mass with children in attendance, as parents would bring their children by their own choice under their own chosen responsibilities as Catholic parents to do so. It’s simple mathematics… if two parents bring three or more children along to attend Mass, of course there’s going to be more children at the Mass than adults as a whole in attendance. Now ICentral’s report above suggests that it was wrong of these Catholic parents to exercise their choice to bring their children to living examples of Catholicism. What the… sense??? Anyway, Gearoid4 and BishopSean and a few others hit it on the nail for me.

Georoid4:Perhaps the gruesome details of an abortion should not be presented to young children, but many adults need to be educated on the horrors of such procedures. Despite what ethe pro-abortion crowd would have us believe, the fact remains that the blood, flesh and bones of an unborn baby are human, as is the tiny, helpless creature that has done nothing wrong and should be allowed to live, not put to death.

Newsflash! Priest ignores parents. Another first.

The full horror of abortion displayed in graphic detail at a Mass full of young children naturally would make one recoil in disgust at the possible traumatic effects of this on young minds. But at the same time, when one is discussing the subject of abortion, one cannot sidestep the terrible violence done to the foetus or embryo and cover it up with euphemisms. The proponents of this as a woman's "right" need to face up to the victims involved in this i.e the nascent life in the womb and the mentally and physically scarred mother who undergoes it.

The latest "own goal" by a cleric that is so brainwashed that he is prepared to subject young children to the horrors of abortion just to show that he is "on message" with the views of the hierarchy. Bad call; bad judgment; more alienated laity!! No winners here!!

It was the wrong venue...completely inappropriate at a children's Mass. And if they are willing to do this, are they also willing to bring in a mother who lost her child to adoption, sold by the Catholic Church, to explain what *that* loss is like? Or the mother of a child sexually abused by a representative of that same Church? Tit for tat. If we're going to give young, impressionable children the truth...let's give them all of it. But personally, I agree with jamieLM...it is the provenance of the parents to decide when and how their children should be given this information, not the parish priest's. Poor decision.

Church is not the place to discuss abortion, unless it's to say it's wrong.