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Ireland Closes its Embassy to the Holy See

[2011-11-05]
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Yesterday evening came a surprise announcement: Ireland will close its Embassy to the Holy See in a move the Irish governement says is needed to cut government costs.

The Irish embassy to the Holy See, located on the Janiculum Hill near to the residence of the American Ambassador to the Holy See and near the American Academy in Rome, is the Villa Spada, the single most valuable property of all the Irish embassies in the world, according to reports.

However, note well: Ireland will not be selling the Villa, but moving staff from its Embassy to Itay over to the Villa Spada to work there.

Many observers are seeing this decision as a severe blow to the Vatican's international prestige, and that view seems correct -- it is a blow to the Holy See that a country with as long a Catholic tradition as Ireland has decided to close its embassy.

Most observers are also seeing it as a direct retaliation of the Irish government against the Church for the Church's many years of allegedly lax supervision in dozens of cases of child abuse and sexual abuse (see the articles reproduced below).

Two points need especially to be stressed.

First, this may not be a unique case. No one knows for sure, but there are already persistent whispers in diplomatic circles here that as many as 40 countries are considering closing their embassies to the Holy See.

If this is even one-third true, the trajectory of the Vatican's diplomatic importance in world affairs will be downward, following several decades in which the diplomatic role of the Vatican -- especially under Pope John Paul II (1978-2005) -- seemed crucial, even decisive, in a world divided into two blocs, one capitalist, one communist. So the Vatican's "diplomatic weight" seems, already with this decision, and potentially even more so with similar decisions, to be in decline.

Second, the consequences. What are the consequences for the world of a dimished diplomatic role for the Holy See?

Inevitably, that the Church's positions on social and moral issues would receive less attention.

The Church's views, on the level of the world's political elites, would be, in effect, marginalized.

The Church's moral voice would be, quite effectively, diminished, weakened, muffled, precisely at the moment when many moral debates -- over the nature of marriage; over the "life issues" from abortion, sterilization and contraception through organ harvesting and euthanasia; over the justice or injustice of our globalized, and globalizing, economic system -- are reaching a pitch of intensity, and are being decided and set into the "stone" of codified law.

Whatever opposition the Church might have to some of these developments will be less influential, less consequential, if the Church's diplomatic prestige is reduced.

Here are several articles, each of which has one or two unique points of information. Together, they serve to give a fairly complete picture of what has just occurred.

Sursa: www.InsideTheVatican.com

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