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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH | 2019 Annual Edmund Burke Lecture | Former President of Ireland, Professor Mary McAleese
Description: Recorded November 5, 2019.
The Future of Ireland: Human Rights and Children’s Rights
Ireland’s future sets before us a series of questions about constitutional and Church-State relationships. The vast majority of current Church members (around 84 percent worldwide and considerably higher in Ireland) were baptized as babies. For the Catholic majority in Ireland this has resulted in the imposition of onerous obligations on children long before they are equipped to evaluate them or agree to them. However, a more fundamental issue still lies unresolved and that is always allowing the right of parents to present their child for Baptism and raise the...