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Article: After all the battering that the Catholic Church has received in recent years, and all the apologies it has uttered for everything from the Inquisition to Swine Flu, the ragwort infestation and this summer's plague of horseflies, it was rather encouraging to hear the Bishop of Galway offer a defence of anything it believes in.
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 31, 2009
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This was a primal heresy, for churches should not be inspired by heathen citadels but by Calvary
After all the battering that the Catholic Church has received in recent years, and all the apologies it has uttered for everything from the Inquisition to Swine Flu, the ragwort infestation and this summer's plague of horseflies, it was rather encouraging to hear the Bishop of Galway offer a defence of anything it believes in.
On this occasion, it was the right of the Catholic Church to have the final say over what goes on in its buildings -- that is, whether open coffins should be allowed to overnight in churches. Bishop Drennan says that that practice ...