{"id":9152,"date":"2018-12-10T17:09:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9152"},"modified":"2019-04-18T17:15:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T00:15:06","slug":"catholics-need-not-obey-laws-contrary-to-faith-archbishop-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9152","title":{"rendered":"Catholics need not obey laws contrary to faith, Archbishop says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The Irish Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Patsy McGarry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Catholics cannot be forced to obey laws which go against the basic  principles of their faith, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has  said.  .  . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Concerning the Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill, which goes before the Seanad this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/topics\/topics-7.1213540?article=true&amp;tag_person=Archbishop+Martin\">Archbishop Martin<\/a>  said, \u201cThere\u2019s a clear Catholic teaching that if legislation is against  the basic principles of faith of people that they can\u2019t be forced to  carry it out. &#8221; . . . 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Concerning the Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill, which goes before the Seanad this week, Archbishop Martin said, \u201cThere\u2019s a clear Catholic teaching that if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catholics need not obey laws contrary to faith, Archbishop says&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,643,41,9,295],"tags":[3676],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-christianity-catholicism","category-ireland","category-news","category-religious-freedom","tag-diarmuid-martin"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Catholics need not obey laws contrary to faith, Archbishop says - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9152\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Catholics need not obey laws contrary to faith, Archbishop says - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Irish Times Patsy McGarry Catholics cannot be forced to obey laws which go against the basic principles of their faith, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said. . . 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