Ireland Says "NO" to Vatican embassy....

[monmouth]

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Catholic Ireland's stunning decision to close its embassy to the Vatican is a huge blow to the Holy See's prestige and may be followed by other countries which feel the missions are too expensive, diplomatic sources said on Friday.

The closure brought relations between Ireland and the Vatican, once ironclad allies, to an all-time low following the row earlier this year over the Irish Church's handling of sex abuse cases and accusations that the Vatican had encouraged secrecy.

Ireland will now be the only major country of ancient Catholic tradition without an embassy to the Vatican.

"This is really bad for the Vatican because Ireland is the first big Catholic country to do this and because of what Catholicism means in Irish history," said a Vatican diplomatic source who spoke on the condition of anonymity.



http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-stunned-irish-embassy-closure-131052801.html

I purposely didn't post this in Religion/Theo..It's really politics and rebellion as only the Irish can do. Eire has backbone...

[Glassunion]

1. From: Ireland To: Catholic Embassy

Pog mo thoin!

Way to go Ireland.

[monmouth]

2. Grandmam Murphy and her sisters must be spinning..LOL..n/t

[silverweb]

3. K&R

Even the concept of the Vatican being considered a nation and having foreign embassies is absurd, imho. The Vatican is the authoritarian fist enforcing its own religious sect, that's all.

Good for Ireland!

[Scuba]

5. +1

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. GOOD! K&R!