An ecumenical group of church leaders in Northern Ireland have come together to protest the British government’s edict for a more liberal abortion rights law to be applied in the province.
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Church recognizes 1989 healing at Knock shrine
On Sept. 1, Bishop Francis Duffy of Ardagh announced to a packed basilica that the church had officially recognized 68-year-old Carroll’s healing.
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A Children’s Crusade: Patrick Radden Keefe’s ‘Say Nothing’
The Troubles in Northern Ireland were fought mainly by children—young men and women from Northern Ireland and young British soldiers from other parts of the United Kingdom.
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The collapse of Ireland’s ‘Green New Deal’ is a cautionary tale for the United States
In May, Ireland became only the second country in the world to declare a “climate and biodiversity emergency.” But was it only a “greenwashing” move to distract climate activists from more oil and gas drilling?
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
John F. Kennedy’s Irish trip that almost wasn’t
“That’s what I want, a pleasure trip to Ireland,” said the president. It proved to be the stop Kennedy needed after tense, Cold War–era conferences in other European capitals.
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Irish archbishop wants ‘show funerals’ for gang members to end
In the midst of a bitter gangland feud in the Irish capital, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has moved to ensure that funerals of those killed are not used as overt shows of wealth or perceived influence.
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Review: Northern Ireland’s painful past is far from over
Patrick Radden Keefe delivers a searing portrait of Irish women and men struggling to make sense of their past and their memories.
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Irish commission: Grave for children was improper, but not a septic tank
The commission investigating the historic treatment of unmarried mothers and their children in religious-run care homes in Ireland has dismissed claims that an underground burial plot was in fact a sewage tank.
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Why do we unleash evil even when we pursue the good?
Unless we remove all of the people, we will never produce a sinless church, one that pursues the good without also perpetrating some evil.
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Review: The problematic fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
Colm Tóibín may have you reaching for your abandoned copy of “The Importance of Being Earnest” or “Dubliners,” even if you have not touched those books since high school.