A prominent Belfast priest has said that internment, which is commemorated by marches in the North this month, effectively marked the end of British rule in Northern Ireland because it facilitated torture. Internment was a British army operation in the North in August 1971, when 342 Catholics suspected of being involved with the IRA were…

Church must protect the ethos of Catholic schools not undergoing divestment

Members of the Pro Life Campaign (PLC) holding an awareness event outside the entrance to an Amnesty International council meeting in Dublin. The PLC has said that Amnesty Ireland's call for the repeal of the 8th Amendment “is a further sad reminder that the organisation has drifted very far from its founding principles and is…

Sr Martina Purdy, a former BBC political correspondent, and Sr Elaine Kelly who both received their veils as novices at a packed ceremony in the Adoration Convent in West Belfast. Photo: Hugh Russell/The Irish News

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Without directly naming Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan has challenged the candidate’s anti-immigrant rhetoric in an op-ed piece in the New York Daily News.   Recalling how his students had disbelieved him when he had said that nativism – the policy of protecting the interests of native-born inhabitants against those…