Vatican Attacks Ireland after Being "Defeated" by Gay Marriage

By Joe Morgan
Gay Star News
May 26, 2015

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/vatican-attacks-ireland-after-being-defeated-gay-marriage260515


The Catholic Church's attempt to keep gay couples away from marriage in Ireland has failed, a Vatican newspaper has lamented.

The Osservatore Romano has said they have been 'defeated', highlighting a gap between their dated views and the ones held by 62% of Irish voters.

With young people proving the Church's power over the country has waned, the newspaper said the result spoke of a 'challenge for the whole [of the Catholic community].'

'The margin between the "yes" and the "no" votes was too large not to be accepted as a defeat. It was the result of high voter turnout, notably among young people,' the Vatican paper said, according to the AFP.

Diamuid Martin, the Archbishop of Dublin, has urged for the Church to 'find a new language which will be understood and heard by people'.

'We have to see how is it that the Church's teaching on marriage and family is not being received even within its own flock,' he added to reporters on Sunday.

While the majority of Irish people still consider themselves Catholic, this is largely considered a cultural identity. With pedophilia scandals only adding to growing secularisation, only a third of people under 21 identify as Catholic with 20% as atheists.