Who can tell [..] what may happen if the Government permit itself to be deluded by some evil genius into the idea that it can enforce conscription on Ireland…

…But should rulers act rashly or arbitrarily, the teaching of the Church did not allow subjects to rise against them of their own authority. Rebellion is absolutely unjustifiable in the circumstance of this country.

Excerpt¹ from Lenten pastoral  of Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Dr. Brian Foley

¹Reported in Anglo-Celt newspaper, Saturday February 23rd, 1918, p31