Pro-abortion politician Ken Curtin in Cork, Ireland has been prohibited from reading Scripture during the Liturgy by a local priest in Curtin’s home parish.

Curtin, who is a member of the Social Democratic party, not only openly supports abortion but is actively repealing the 8th Amendment which provides protection for both women and their unborn babies from the grave sin of abortion. Curtin was told he was being dropped as lector last week by Fr. John McCarthy, administrator of St. Colman’s Cathedral in Cobh, Ireland.

According to Curtin, Fr. McCarthy told him that regardless of his own personal position, as long as he was still a member of a party that supported abortion he could not also be lector.

Bishop William Crean of the diocese of Cloyne held a meeting with Curtin to discuss the issue. The meeting was described by Bishop Crean as both “cordial” and “fruitful.”

The issue of abortion is not negotiable and simply Church teaching is not up for discussion.

Persons in the public eye must know that if they choose to proclaim the Catholic creed they must also abide to all of the Church’s teachings, not just the ones they pick and choose.

Similar situations have happened here in the United States as well. Vice President Joe Biden, who has said he is a “practicing Catholic,” is pro-abortion. Because of his vocal views so far from Church teaching priests from the order of the Alliance of the Two Hearts, located in Biden’s hometown of Dover, Delaware, once declared they would deny him Holy Communion.

Ireland, whose population majority are Catholics, will be the next country to host the World Meeting of Families in 2018. All eyes will be on Ireland in a couple of years and if there are other priests as brave as Fr. McCarthy then Ireland will sure to teach America a lesson.