What the Church Must Learn From the Hideous Irish Referendum
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According to him, the best use we can make out of this is public repentance, “It is a truism to say that penance is undervalued in the Church today.”
Shaw suggests introducing the versicle “Spare, O Lord, spare thy people, and be not angry with them for ever” before Benediction, and to celebrate public Masses a year in reparation for abortion and other manifestations of the “culture” of death.
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