““Ní múchfar an tine seo, a lasadh ar an cnoc seo, go brách….”
The Catholic Church in Ireland may be bruised, but it is not broken. Despite scandal, secularisation, and dwindling vocations, it remains a vital force in Irish civic life, especially in the hearts of older generations and the lifeblood of parish communities nationwide.
Progressive strategists understand this. That’s why open-border advocates increasingly cloak their agenda in the language of Catholic compassion. FF and FG also draw heavily on parish structures and social Catholic goodwill to underwrite policies that, in reality, run counter to the long-term good of the Irish nation.
Still reeling from internal rot—including the quiet legacy of a “gay mafia” within the Church—Catholic institutions today often operate like hostages, afraid to speak plainly. The result is a faith gently hijacked, steered toward liberal goals under a pious disguise.
One striking example came late last year, when the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference released a pastoral letter titled “One Hundred Thousand Welcomes.” Ostensibly a response to rising concern about migration, the letter leaned heavily into secular talking points: Ireland’s emigrant past, the need for integration, and the moral imperative to welcome all newcomers.
While well-meaning, the document lacked spiritual depth and theological clarity. It combined Gospel universalism with liberal cosmopolitanism in a way that blurred rather than enlightened.
The core message was summed up in the following line:
“Regardless of what the loud voices in protest or on social media might pronounce, we recognise the Image of God in every migrant. Even if a crowd is shouting racist chants, we stand for the truth that God’s love is not restricted to the holders of any particular passports—we are all equal in his eyes.”
No Catholic should disagree with the sacred worth of every human being. But Catholics are not obliged to support policies that overwhelm communities, bypass democratic consent, or destabilise the national home.
Indeed, social Catholics—especially those over 50 who practise the faith beyond a census tick-box—hold the balance of power in this debate. These are people who can be reached with the right arguments, made in the right spirit. And it is precisely to them that the bishops’ letter appears designed to forestall.
Here, then, is why Irish Catholics can—and must—oppose the current regime of mass migration, in fidelity to both faith and reason.
Universality Is Not Globalism
Catholicism affirms the unity of mankind through our shared creation and redemption. But it does not require erasing national identity or sovereignty. From the beginning, the Church has worked through nations and cultures, not against them. St Patrick at Tara baptised a people, not a borderless mass.
The liberal globalist view—where borders are seen as bigotry and migration as destiny—is not Catholic. It reduces the human person to an economic unit, severed from land, history, and community.
To be Catholic is to be relational—to God, to family, and to one’s place. Love of neighbour begins with those nearest to you. That includes your parish, your town, and your country. Catholic tradition has always recognised this natural order of obligations.
Even ethno-nationalism, where it does not abandon Christian charity or human dignity, can be defended under Catholic moral teaching. It is not un-Christian to love one’s people. To deny this is to exile generations of Irish saints and patriots from the moral order.
Subsidiarity Over Supranationalism
Catholic social teaching is clear: problems should be addressed at the lowest appropriate level. That means families before states, parishes before national bureaucracies. But Ireland’s migration system today is driven by market forces, asylum fraud, and EU technocracy, with little or no say from the Irish people.
The communities of East Wall, Newtownmountkennedy, and others are right to protest. Their moral instincts are sound. No bishop, priest, or politician should ask them to remain silent while their local areas are transformed without consent.
Outsourcing charity to NGOs or state systems is not Christian solidarity. It feeds a secular order that displaces faith, family, and cohesion. The IPAS system creates social dislocation, not renewal.
Real solidarity arises from shared experience, common values, and trust. None of these can be mass-produced by demographic change or top-down policies.
“They’re Filling the Churches” Isn’t the Whole Story
Yes, migrants often bring a lively faith. Yes, some parishes have been sustained by Nigerian or Filipino priests. But this is a short-term plan, not a long-term solution.
Second-generation migrants are already drifting into secularism like their Irish peers. And there is a deeper cost: alienation of native Catholics who feel that the Church is no longer theirs—that it serves the state’s diversity agenda, not the people of God.
Instrumentalising migration to prop up the Church is both theologically dangerous and socially irresponsible. It treats people not as ends in themselves, but as tools to mask a deeper decline.
What’s needed is not imported piety, but revived Irish faith, rooted in families, culture, and tradition. This has always been how Catholicism renews itself, not by viewing man as a replaceable and fungible unit on the export/import market.
Fides, Patria, Libertas
Ireland is not a post-national playground. It is a real place, with a memory, a soul, and a divine calling.
The experiment in replacement migration has failed wherever it has been tried. It fragments societies, erodes trust, and alienates citizens. And in Ireland, it has not led to any confessional revival worth speaking of.
The Catholic Church has a duty not to flatter secular ideologies, but to speak truth in season and out of season. That includes the truth that nations have the right—and sometimes the obligation—to enforce their borders, deport where necessary, and defend the common good.
From Tara to Clonmacnoise, from the Penal Laws to the Proclamation, Irish nationhood and Catholic identity have walked side by side. The decay of one often signals the decay of the other.
To recover either, we must start telling the truth. That mass migration is not a moral mandate. That demographic upheaval is not Gospel charity. And that sometimes, love means saying: this is our home—and it must remain so.
An interesting article built on the premise that Irish Catholics and Catholics new to the parish are a homogenous bloc. They are not. They include, and have always included, all kinds of shysters, who would sell their grannies for the rent Roma shysters would pay them. Read Pearse’s Mise Éire, look at the set up of the Monaghan GAA or of CRH, the meat processing companies and other gangs who want non stop immigration and the profits from theextra houses they demand. No shortage of opportunists and grifters. Hard decisions needed.
The Catholic Church in Éire has for the past 3 generations suffered from a lack of Faith. Pure and simple. The poor leadership (particularly clerical) has not helped Christian Catholics in living the Faith since the emergence of the Irish State in the 20’s.
We are blessed to have had some fantastic Faith filled laity in certain areas, like the pro-life movement but sadly the “senior management” (bishops) seems to be morally bankrupt and suffer, as Pope Francis put it, from Spiritual Worldliness.
Fr Brendan Kilcoyne bucks the trend among the clerical class and gets a growing audience to live and promote the Gospel.
A tiny minority of Catholic Christians are plugging away at building up the Kingdom of God (new schools, prayer groups, on-line influence etc). They are unknown to the vaste majority of even Sunday “practicing” church-goers and would be rejected, like The Lord in His day, because most only want moralistic therapeutic deism and NOT a personal relationship with their God, Jesus. That’s why the Trocaire Box has pride of place on the Sanctuary during Lent
A UNIVERSAL CATHOLIC CHURCH IS NOT IRISH CATHOLICiSM UNIVERSALLY
THE SIN OF BEING BORN in ireland, should never be burdened with guilt…but it always is.
We”re told as Catholics that we are born with sin, or was the sin to be born, or say sin on arrival despite the odds today, I say as an Irish Catholic they were waiting for us Irish bawling babbies as beasts of burden,willing and ready to harness the loads around soft necks of a failed political entity and church of Rome so sadly compromised throughout its history.
….and as an Irish child of the fifties I grabbed that load,shouldered the burdens gratefully and spiritually and away to boot…and on the journey through life…I GREW UP AND STED UP.
I questioned it all, I QUESTIONED EVERYTHING, as good Catholics its expected of us…but I did not harness or cultivate guilt, I learned instead to love oneself,not in a self indulgent way but as a way to love and accept others…for how can we love others if we do not love ourselves…GOD HELP THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES…and there it is,go ahead, TRY IT
Compared to good universal Catholics around the World I am always proud OMG SIN of my heritage and place and beginning as AN IRISH CATHOLIC, because it is I who choose what BURDENS TO SHOULDER, and nobody else, no more guilt trips, but I have gladly carried
THE BURDENS OF BEING IRISH, SOVEREIGN,INDEPENDANT AND FREE…because all the generations of lazy bastards in CHURCH N STATE CARRY NOTHING,,,thats why they only want
MORE SERFS, MORE SUBJECTS, MORE FAKEUGEES,MORE CORRUPTION,MORE PLANTATION,MORE TYRANNY MORE CRIME,MORE DEATH N DESTRUCTION…its your burden always Paddy….ever since you were a bawling babby CATHOLIC IRISH PADDY.
Well phrased and very true. Wouldn’t it be great if we could get the gay mafia out of the church? They could all go and work in the theatre and RTE!
Those opposed to abortion ( mostly Catholics ) tend to favour Birthright citizenship ( even if it means limitless immigration ) .
During the ‘ 04 referendum there was a curious alliance between the above & the woke brigade . Partly explains why anchor baby / family nonsense is ( hush hush ) alive & well . Deporting singletons to Georgia is immigration control Irish style . The American neighbour of murdered Michael Gainey had his asylum claim rejected seven years ago ! Why are Yanks claiming asylum here ?
The mass invasion of Ireland is a deliberate policy devised by international institutions such as the United Nations.
In fact as soon as we got the loans from the International Monetary Fund, which is a UN agency, the government started to plan “Project Ireland 2040”, beginning in 2014.
This was the same year that the UN finished the final draft of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
SDG 10 contains the plans for the invasion of Ireland:
“Target 10.7: Responsible and well-managed migration policies”
The full title of Target 10.7 is to:
“Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies”.
This reflects the ideas of the “Replacement Migration” report, issued by the UN in 2000.
Those were also the years when Peter Sutherland, the UN Special Representative for International Migration was meeting behind the scenes with Irish politicians and putting the finishing touches to this nation wrecking conspiracy.
The United Nations and all of its agencies are completely opposed to Catholicism and all its values. UNESCO for example has no interest in traditional moral values or the family unit.
Yet here we see the Irish Catholic church fully collaborating with institutions which in any other era would be considered its deadly enemy.
Of course we know the answer. The Vatican became fully captured and indeed heretical in 1958, and is now just another bunch of globalists.
It’s strange now to read the works of Fr Denis Fahey, who could probably be considered a kind of “Catholic Julius Evola”.
Fahey understood the menace of international institutions to traditional European society and condemned the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the United Nations, the latter in his book “The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation”.
It’s truly amazing that the Irish Catholic church is now applauding and encouraging something which in the past would have necessarily called for the immediate organization of a crusade.