![]() Dr McAleese insists that, “the recognition in Church law of the equality and intellectual freedom of all Church members must be a priority in the national episcopal reports that will go to Rome for the 2023 Synod”. The principle, vox populi, vox Dei, is a good one, but it assumes that the people speak with one voice. ![]() She wants Catholics throughout the world to send their views on reform of the Church directly to Rome, bypassing the current synodal structure, which works on the model that the people talk, the bishops listen, and the bishops transmit what they hear to Rome. There isn’t much about which I agree with her, but in discussing plans for a synod for 2023, she has raised some important points. I move on now to accomplish one of my most sacred civic duties.Dr Mary McAleese, former president of Ireland, and a canon lawyer, is a plain speaker who has the uncomfortable capacity to say the unsayable. If they have spared a modicum of conscience and wisdom, those political leaders can still pause and reflect on what really contributed to their victory or failure? Has it more to do with default circumstances, the genuine change in their leadership OUTLOOK & VALUES or will it continue to be the unflinching SENSE OF DENIAL/ARROGANCE that afflicts most people when they are in Power … about their own weaknesses and the diabolical influence of their surroundings? Yes, it’s worth contemplating also how tomorrow many of these politicians and their opportunistic/servile agents, after they have relished the outcome of the polls, will gleefully chant : ![]() It’s up to us to mitigate or transcend these compounding negative consequences through our improved outlook and actions in the future! By commission, as accomplices or through omission! Lol. I just wonder how, after the electoral fever has subsided, we shall handle, individually and collectively, the ‘karma’ set in motion by the massive pollution caused by the lies and manipulation that were unleashed during this whole electoral season? Like it or not, we shall have to bear the consequences collectively at varying degrees. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction! I am a true believer in the Law of Karma (individual and collective) as much as I believe in the inescapable Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion. It’s highly regrettable that in this age of the greatest ICT inventions & innovations, we have yet to see the existence of a powerful, reliable & affordable mass produced INSTANT LIE DETECTOR TOOL (ILDT) that could alert us by regular strong beeps every time some politicians, leaders, public opinion protagonists/politologues-salon and media are digressing from Truth and indulging in sheer LIES & Manipulation. We shall eventually realize how far we have been allies and agents of real positive change for our society or ignorant followers/accomplices of a larger army of the forces of darkness that will perpetuate a culture of ruthless greed and arrogance from self-serving individuals. Tomorrow, when the dust of the populist clamour would have settled, we shall all gradually wake up to the reality of normalcy. And thereby we make the CHOICE in total freedom about our Future Representatives in Parliament and Government. Today is momentous in the sense that it’s the only time within two electoral mandates whereby our democracy gives all of us the EQUAL POWER to hold our politicians and leaders ACCOUNTABLE for their past actions and betrayal of our collective Will & Trust. True, over the years, our individual and collective selfishness & greed, often inspired by the character and examples set by our leaders (in politics & elsewhere) have kept polluting the state of our idyllic abode and undermining our Mieux-Vivre Ensemble & Sense of Solidarity. However, if we have had the opportunity to travel and live abroad, we shall understand the truth behind my statement. Depending on our personal fortune and circumstances in the society. Are we objectively aware of this ? True, this beauty and positive outlook can be in the eye of the beholder. We live in a really beautiful and blessed country.
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