Hard Work - This Blogging

WOW! Today was just one of those days. Selective as I am, there were still 16 various items in todays news that I could enjoy commenting on but, what the hell,I'm on invalidity pension and supposed to be taking things easy!
Ah well, maybe things will be dull for the next few days and allow me time to get around to all 16 of them.
The most curious among them, to me, was the case of Womens Aid "playing the game" in praising Ireland -
"According to statistics from Women's Aid, one in five women in Ireland were subjected to abuse - either emotional, verbal, physical or sexual. This compares with one in four subjected to the same abuses in the rest of Europe and in the US."

This looks to me more like the "begging nuns" approach to pleading for funding, rather than any unambiguous assertion that it's time to demand that the Irish grow up and admit that any abuse within the family should be declared un-acceptable.
Personally, I have always thought that Womens Aid is somewhat un-professional and occasionally allows an anti-male attitude be reflected from within their ranks.
But then, I'm a cynic, aren't I?
Let's be honest, in this country the easiest access to funding is still through a parochial or parochial-type network, regardless of the empty-pew syndrome most parishes are suffering from.
Add to that the majority Catholic culture's negative tendency to expect passivity and obedience within it's ranks, especially from women.
Nuns, whether plain-clothes or in full military uniform, may be well trained in running a business, but will remain primarily enslaved to the Vatican in any of their seemingly secular operations, and always be grovellers in secular society.
Religious orders of nuns infiltrated suburban communities in the 80's to find more contemporary ways of adding to the coffers of the Vatican, fooling many of the less-educated into considering them to be "socialists", how are you!

The Catholic Church has an obvious vested interest in perpetuating the need for charities. Anything else that looks like a reliable means of filching state funding is equally attractive to them. Expecting that professional Catholics will ever show any commitment to help solving negative social conditions for an increasingly secular world is unrealistic. In too many cases, they themselves are a perpetuating factor!
Isn't it time that our politicians came clean and declared openly whether their primary commitment is to the real world (secular), or to the failed aspiration of a Catholic State for A Catholic Nation?
In the meantime, supporters of Womens Aid can always console themselves by offering up loads of prayers for women victims in Holy Ireland!