Anti-Catholicism
The North’s Enduring Pathology: Anti-Catholic Bigotry
Fr. Sean Mc Manus, President, Irish National Caucus, Washington. “The whole map of Europe has been changed … but as the deluge subsides and the waters fall short we see the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone emerging once again.” (Winston Churchill. February 16, 1922). This oft -quoted statement of Churchill is fatuous and […]
DUP councilor: Evangelicals should speak out against papal visit
ANOTHER SAD EXAMPLE OF ANTI-CATHOLIC BIGOTRY John Finlay, DUP councilor, Ballymoney Letter to the Editor. News Letter (Belfast). Saturday, December 3, 2016 John Finlay, DUP councilor, Ballymoney DUP councilor: Evangelicals should speak out against papal visit Letter to the Editor. News Letter (Belfast). Saturday, December 3, 2016 After Enda Kenny met with the pope at […]
letter of the day: canon’s appointment
Recently, First Minister of Northern Ireland Arlene Foster criticized Fr. Sean Mc Manus for saying that —despite progress in Northern Ireland— there is still deep anti-Catholic bigotry. Now comes this letter in the Belfast Telegraph —still often referred to as the “ main Protestant paper” in Northern Ireland— that seems to validate Fr. Mc Manus’ […]
O’Loan accuses Irish media of virulent anti-Catholic bias
Former police ombudsman tells conference papers are ‘aggressively hostile’ to churchPatsy McGarry in Boston. Irish Times. Monday, April 18, 2016 The media has been criticised at a conference in Boston for contributing to the decline of the Catholic Church in Ireland.Speaking in Boston College at the weekend, Baroness Nuala O’Loan said “in a country in which the media was once sympathetic to the Catholic Church, it is […]
Orange Order display of dunderheadedness
Fionnuala O’ Connor. Irish News (Belfast). Tuesday, March 29, 2016 President Michael D Higgins told the BBC with characteristic brio – in an acute historical overview – that “ethical sensitivity” marked the state commemoration of the Easter Rising. Apart from Lurgan’s masked paraders, Ireland north and south marked the centenary these past couple of days […]