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To: nihil who wrote (68602)	12/25/1999 1:42:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

<<Of course, in Ireland, there are many people who wish bishops would practice birth control instead of criticizing it.>> Isn't that the truth! The story of the Bishop of Galway, his lover and their grown-up child certainly would not have made headlines if everyone had been practicing safe sex! The really slimy thing about this story is NOT that he had sex and then a baby, but that he tried to hide it, and reappropriated (stole) money from Church coffers to try to pay the mother and child off. And that he was a bad and neglectful father, hoping the whole mess would go away. Ireland is really changing in this regard. Birth control is now legal, although women still must go to England to have abortions. In Dublin you need so much money to survive that many women with young children work. It is a sign of real affluence to be able to stay home with small children, in fact. Economic factors have quickly reduced the birth rate, and with it, the influence of the Church.