Help expel the Papal Nunico- Email Minister Martin

The following is the text of a message I sent to the 4,205 members of the Expel the Papal Nuncio Facebook Group.

I’m posting it here so that Non-Facebookers can also read it and, hopefully, take the moment to click the link and send their message to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

I’ll write more about the experience of this campaign when the dust has settled. But great thanks go to the IrishElection.com folk, who filled the form with every TD’s email in the country.

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Hello all,

This has certainly been an extraordinary week in the history of the Irish church and the Irish state.

After a secret meeting between the leading Civil Servant in Foreign Affairs and the Papal Nuncio, we’ve seen the Taoiseach forced to abandon his prepared speech to mount a shameful defence of the Vatican State and the Papal Nuncio in the Dail.

We’ve seen bishops forced to cut announced months of ‘reflection’ short and flee to Rome to resign in the face of public pressure.

But most extraordinarily, we’ve see the power of ordinary citizens to have their voices heard on important matters. It was members of this Facebook Group, emailing, posting letters and speaking out in print and on air who drove the issue of the Papal Nuncio’s expulsion up the agenda.

Now, reversing the Taoisech’s position of only Wednesday, Michael Martin, Minister for Foreign Affairs has announced that he will be calling the Papal Nuncio into Iveagh House to express the Government’s ‘disappointment’ at his, and the Vatican State’s, response.

Your voices have brought things this far. Now we need to take things further. Please visit this handy email form set up by IrishElection to support us and email Min. Micheal Martin to say that disappointment isn’t the message you want to send. Tell him you want the Papal Nuncio to face the consequences of his stonewalling.

http://www.irishelection.com/nuncio/

It was your messages which ensured that the Minister must act. Please take the time to send a message to ensure that action is the right one.

Thanks

Simon McGarr