{"id":9745,"date":"2019-10-15T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9745"},"modified":"2019-12-20T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T23:05:16","slug":"varadkar-invokes-st-john-henry-newman-in-conscience-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9745","title":{"rendered":"Varadkar invokes St John Henry Newman in conscience debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Taoiseach was responding to Labour leader\u2019s call for end to clerics \u2018instructing\u2019 politicians <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Irish Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Marie O&#8217;Halloran<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n        Catholic politicians should look to the comments of newly canonised Saint John Henry Newman when considering issues of conscience, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n        Mr Varadkar made his remarks after Labour leader Brendan Howlin highlighted comments by Catholic primate Archbishop Eamon Martin last month at the Kennedy Summer School.\n    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n        Archbishop Martin said Catholic politicians in particular had a responsibility to support laws that \u201cuphold the dignity of every person from conception to death\u201d. He also cautioned against politicians leading \u201cparallel lives compartmentalised in to spiritual and secular spheres\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>         Mr Howlin suggested that this idea of Catholic politicians \u201chas the potential to be deeply problematic\u201d as Irish society becomes more pluralist and multicultural. . .[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/politics\/oireachtas\/varadkar-invokes-st-john-henry-newman-in-conscience-debate-1.4051669\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taoiseach was responding to Labour leader\u2019s call for end to clerics \u2018instructing\u2019 politicians The Irish Times Marie O&#8217;Halloran Catholic politicians should look to the comments of newly canonised Saint John Henry Newman when considering issues of conscience, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. 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