In September 1971, as reported in On This Day (September 3), Ian Paisley called for a new Third Force, like the B-Specials controlled by Stormont “Not a policy of containment of the IRA but a policy of annihilation.”
Limerick, Ireland, Sep 9, 2018 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick has encouraged a fresh collaboration between the Church and the government of the Republic of Ireland.
“I make a humble plea to all who want to begin with us again in a new way, what the Taoiseach called a new covenant; let’s rebuild a church at the service of Irish society,” he told the Irish Times.
He clarified that the new relationship would enable the Church to be at “the service of the Irish people.”
Bishop Leahy’s comments come in the wake of the World Meeting of Families, where Pope Francis spoke about the country’s clerical abuse scandal.
The Schola Cantorum of the London Oratory School singing at the Carmel Mission in California during the Carmel Bach Festival 2019. Credit: Anita Morrison.
CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2020 / 04:00 am (CNA).- When the singers of the Schola Cantorum of the London Oratory School gathered earlier this year to create a new album, they knew they had little margin for error.
A terrifying new virus was spreading across the world and there were rumors that Britain was about to enter a previously unheard-of state known as “nationwide lockdown.”
“We recorded our album in the final week before the first lockdown,” choir director Charles Cole recalled. “It was very much a race against time, because the political situation was developing quickly and we knew that a shutdown was imminent, so we were very fortunate indeed to get the sessions finished and complete the repertoire.”