The Mantle of The Public Good?

The fountainhead arranges the font to suit its grand design.

Such a superordinate achievement cannot be achieved in a social and political vacuum.

Requires powerfully reasoned and sustained affinities as first things first, oath of allegiance, further buffered by legal manifolds for an alternate law for them and such myopic acrobatics even masquerading as progressive ideology.

Furthermore, credibility deficits were introduced by the top echelons re the validity of victim accounts and similarly 'canon law' had a term called 'mental reservation'

The year he left Krakow, my explicit top up grooming was well underway.

The current serving Minister of Justice now refers to this in a new bill called (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity 2023) which makes it 'an offence of recruiting a child to engage in criminal activity. For a person to be found guilty of under Fagin's Law, the offence committed by the child must be punishable by 5 years or more in prison, which limits coverage to offences at the upper end of the scale of severity.'

Going back a bit in time, at 11 years old, the appellations of the spiritual empire was well and truly woven, interiorised as authoritative, transcendent and emancipatory, where I was preparing myself to enter, what was termed by the De La Salle Vocations Director, as junior noviciate, which was my secondary schooling in their school.

All this just preceding the curial image of the newly elected Holy Pontiff, beaming down to Ireland as his first port of call.

JPII deemed Ireland as rich in tradition and learning, a harvest where he is duty bound to his theological mission of evangelisation, saving of souls to lands outside their own.

And in the words of the Provincial of the De La Salle Brothers Bro Columba Gallagher FSC (Provincial)

"Like the early monks of the golden age of our history, the Irish Brothers have never limited their educational and evangelising activities to their native land"

Indeed, the Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid, consistently referred to the French founder of this order 'to the intellect of St John Baptiste De La Salle, not only Europe, but what is also forgotten, the whole civilised world, owes very much, what is now accepted as common place, in primary and secondary schools. The Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers) have become a symbol of the many teaching congregations that owe their inspiration to the many teachings of this educational genius, who was at once, a conservative traditionalist, and an unexampled pioneer' (End Quote)

When speaking to priests and religious in Maynooth on 1 October 1979, our local Bishop Cahal Daly (1998) noted how John Paul II addressed the theme of religious vocations:

"The degree of religious practice in Ireland is high. For this we must be constantly thanking God. But will this high level of religious practice continue? Will the next generation of young Irishmen and Irish women still be as faithful as their fathers were? After my two days in Ireland, after my meeting with Ireland’s youth in Galway, I am confident that they will. But this will require both unremitting work and untiring prayer on our part. You must work for the Lord with a sense of urgency. You must work with conviction that this generation, this decade of the 1980s which we are about to enter, could be crucial and decisive for the future of the faith in Ireland. Let there be no complacency. (p. 226)

As part of the Pope’s trip in 1979, John Paul II visited the pontifical seminary in Maynooth. He specifically addressed the contribution of ‘religious brothers’ in Ireland saying, ‘Your call to holiness is a precious adornment of the Church. Believe in your vocation. Be faithful to it. “God has called you and He will not fail you”’ (Thess. 5:23, cited by Towey 1980: 594).

"It is one thing to distinguish between various types of social disrespect and develop grounds for their normative critique. It is, however, quite another thing to explain the social mechanisms by which such forms of disrespect arise and become mental habits" 2023

Professor Alex Honneth Jack C. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities | Columbia University