Dear Editor, Mary Kenny describes Queen Elizabeth of Britain as a “surprising ecumenist” who nevertheless adheres to her own Christian faith (IC 16/06/2016). Wasn’t it Queen Elizabeth who signed into law the 1967 Abortion Act, which has resulted – so far – in the deaths of more than eight million of her subjects?
Would that she had ecumenically taken the same path as King Baudouin of the Belgians who, when Belgium’s abortion laws were liberalised in 1990, said he could not sign the law without violating his conscience as a Catholic. He stood down as monarch for a day, while the Belgian Parliament passed the abortion law (and then voted to reinstate Baudouin as king the following day).
Baudouin’s example showed him to be a true Catholic.
Yours etc.,
Kieron Wood,
Rathfarnham, Dublin 16.