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Covid-19 forces Our Lady of Knock shrine to close Aug. 15 to discourage crowds
Catholic News Service
The Shrine of Our Lady of Knock in County Mayo, Ireland will be closed on the day of the August 15 feast due to concerns over the pandemic.
In this Dec. 10, 1998 file photo, John Hume, right, looks at the Nobel Peace Prize diploma which he received from Francis Sejersted, left, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee during the award ceremony in Oslo Town Hall. (AP Photo/Bjoern Sigurdsoen/NTB/POOL)
Politics & SocietyNews
John Hume, who worked to end violence in Northern Ireland, dies at 83
Danica Kirka - Associated Press
The Catholic leader of the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, Hume was seen as the principal architect of Northern Ireland's 1998 peace agreement.
This June 4, 2014 file photo shows the site of a mass grave for children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home, in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. The Vatican has indicated its support for a campaign to exhume the bodies of hundreds of babies who were buried on the grounds of a Catholic-run Irish home for unwed mothers to give them a proper Christian burial. (Niall Carson/PA via AP, file)
FaithNews
Vatican indicates support to exhume babies at Irish home
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam has said it was a “priority” for him to re-inter the babies' bodies in consecrated ground.
FaithVantage Point
An American Jesuit on James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’: obscene, blasphemous and ‘against the natural law’
Francis X. Talbot
From 1934: An America editor waited 14 years for his chance, but then he came out swinging against James Joyce.
Politics & SocietyNews
Northern Ireland’s experience during ‘the Troubles’ may offer insight into U.S. policing issues
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
John Murray, a Catholic, said: "The Irish civil rights movement (that served as a precursor to the Troubles) was directly influenced by the African American civil rights movement of the late 1960s."
FaithFaith in Focus
Irish-Americans tempted to condemn today’s protests should remember their history
Edward Hoyt
Black men strung up and lynched by Irish-Americans in New York, in the midst of the Civil War. It turns the stomach to acknowledge, but the truth is unavoidable.
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