Alan Shatter is an enemy of the Catholic Church. He wrote a book in 1979 mocking the Church’s teaching on birth control as it was once loyally implemented in Irish law by the nation’s ban on contraceptives — that was when Ireland was seriously Catholic. The satirical attack on the natural law and Church teaching was disdainfully titled: “Family Planning, Irish Style.” Shatter is an avid Zionist who a few years ago, 2009, railed against a Jewish, Israeli-born, anti-Zionist historian, Prof Ilan Pappé, from the University of Exeter, who addressed the Irish Parliament soliciting its condemnation of Israel’s terrorist tactics in occupied Gaza.
Catholic Culture: Here’s a couple of comments from Irish clergy:
“The seal of the confessional is inviolable as far as I am concerned, and that’s the end of the matter,” said Auxiliary Bishop Raymond Field of Dublin.
“I certainly wouldn’t be willing to break the seal of confession for anyone–Alan Shatter particularly,” added Father Sean McDonagh of the Association of Catholic Priests. Read more on this here.
