Official Communication from the UFA
Posted by Jim on May 8, 2018
May 8th
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RALLY FOR LIFE
Posted by Jim on May 7, 2018
To Defend Ireland’s
Pro-Life Eighth Amendment
And Stop Legalized Abortion
Monday, May 14, 2018
Starts Promptly @12Noon
Where: 345 Park Ave, New York, NY 10154
(between 51st and 52nd Streets)
Join us for a Reception Afterwards with Guest Speakers @1:30PM
Where: O’Lunney’s Times Square Pub
145 West 45th Street (Bway/6th Ave.)
On May 25, voters in the Republic of Ireland go to the polls in a referendum that could end the country’s ban on abortion. Voters will decide if they want to repeal the Eighth Amendment of Ireland’s constitution, which recognizes the equal right to life of both the mother and her unborn child. We urge Ireland to uphold the Eighth Amendment.
Contact: John Aidan Byrne E-mail: irishprolifeusa@yahoo.com
Twitter: @IrishProLifeUSA
Phone: (973) 529-4699
Foster calls for Sinn Féin to agree to military covenant
Posted by Jim on
SINN Féin backing the extension of Britain’s military covenant to Northern Ireland would show its commitment to a shared future extends beyond just gestures, Arlene Foster has claimed.
The DUP leader called for tangible actions as she was asked for her response to recent moves that have been interpreted as efforts to reach out to unionists, such as party president Mary Lou McDonald’s use of the word “Londonderry”.
Mrs Foster denied she had not reciprocated with conciliatory gestures to republicans.
She told The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One: “Well, I don’t accept that we haven’t made any so-called gestures and I think it’s more important actually to find and to build a basis for a shared community in Northern Ireland, which is what we want to see – a real sharing and not just a gesture sharing.
“And wouldn’t it be good, for example, if Sinn Féin were to allow Northern Ireland’s government to sign up in full to the military covenant and to respect veterans regardless of where they live in the UK.
“I think that that is something that they could do to show respect for veterans that live in Northern Ireland.”
Implementation of the military covenant is among the issues that have blocked the restoration of power-sharing at Stormont.
The covenant, which has been implemented in Britain, encapsulates a series of policies that define the state’s obligations to its armed services.
Under its terms, members of the armed forces are entitled to some priority medical treatment and assistance with housing and school places for children.
The policies would potentially require amendments to robust equality laws that formed a central part of the Good Agreement.
The main dispute preventing the return of devolved government involves the Irish language.
Sinn Féin has made clear it will not go back into government without a stand-alone piece of legislation to protect speakers, while the DUP has said it will only support measures as part of broader laws that incorporate other cultures.
“I have said frequently that the Irish language is no threat to the United Kingdom, or indeed to the union,” Mrs Foster told the BBC.
“I respect people that speak the Irish language. But that’s not enough for Sinn Féin, they want to impose the Irish language on everyone in Northern Ireland and I think that that would be not only a retrograde step for Northern Ireland, but actually for the Irish language as well, because it actually politicises it.”
Northern Ireland has been without a power-sharing government for almost 16 months.
After the latest round of talks collapsed in acrimonious circumstances in February, Sinn Féin claimed Mrs Foster had signed off on a deal before backing out in the face of an internal party revolt – claims the DUP leader vehemently denied.
Amid the fallout, documents exchanged by the parties during negotiations were leaked to the media.
Mrs Foster has said trust between the parties has broken down as a consequence of the February row.
“We have to build up confidence between the parties again, because devolution is right for Northern Ireland and we want to see it return immediately.”
DUP founder: I’m bewildered that Protestant church leaders would welcome Pope NI visit
Posted by Jim on May 6, 2018
“What would Americans think if there were a campaign to stop the Pope from visiting the United States? Wouldn’t it be rightly regarded as a horrible expression of religious bigotry, which all decent people should condemn?
Yet—as the attached Link to the article from the News Letter of Belfast shows—there is a campaign to stop the Pope from visiting Northern Ireland in August. Now, some people might argue it is best to ignore such expressions of bigotry (as some also tried to tell the Blessed Martin Luther King, Jr.) but, for me, that question was settled long ago by Edmund Burke (1729-1797):’The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men/[women] to do nothing.’
The seriousness of Wallace Thompson’s remarks is compounded by the fact that he has served as a key adviser to Nigel Dodd’s, MP, the leader of the DUP Delegation in the British Parliament. … Imagine, if a top United States Senator had such an adviser, wouldn’t he have to publicly repudiate that adviser. Will Nigel Dodds repudiate Wallace Thompson?
Furthermore, because the DUP is the only entity that is keeping Prime Minister Theresa May’s government in power, Nigel Dodds is Theresa May’s most important ally. Shouldn’t the Prime Minister demand that Mr. Dodds do the right thing, and if he doesn’t, shouldn’t decency demand that she repudiates his support?”—Fr. Sean McManus
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/dup-founder-i-m-bewildered-that-protestant-church-leaders-would-welcome-pope-ni-visit-1-8488269
Bobby
Posted by Jim on May 5, 2018
The Rhythm Of Time
There’s an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years,
And will do so to the end.
It was born when time did not exist,
And it grew up out of life,
It cut down evil’s strangling vines,
Like a slashing searing knife.
It lit fires when fires were not,
And burnt the mind of man,
Tempering leadened hearts to steel,
From the time that time began.
It wept by the waters of Babylon,
And when all men were a loss,
It screeched in writhing agony,
And it hung bleeding from the Cross.
It died in Rome by lion and sword,
And in defiant cruel array,
When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus’
Along the Appian Way.
It marched with Wat the Tyler’s poor,
And frightened lord and king,
And it was emblazoned in their deathly stare,
As e’er a living thing.
It smiled in holy innocence,
Before conquistadors of old,
So meek and tame and unaware,
Of the deathly power of gold.
It burst forth through pitiful Paris streets,
And stormed the old Bastille,
And marched upon the serpent’s head,
And crushed it ‘neath its heel.
It died in blood on Buffalo Plains,
And starved by moons of rain,
Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again.
It screamed aloud by Kerry lakes,
As it was knelt upon the ground,
And it died in great defiance,
As they coldly shot it down.
It is found in every light of hope,
It knows no bounds nor space
It has risen in red and black and white,
It is there in every race.
It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,
It screams in tyrants’ eyes,
It has reached the peak of mountains high,
It comes searing ‘cross the skies.
It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,
That thought that says ‘I’m right!’