Word: dubliner
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...your father's Irish Catholicism. Attendance at mass is down, birth control is commonplace, and not one new priest was ordained last year in the Dublin archdiocese - which estimates that more than 100 of its priests since 1940, about 4% of the total, have abused children. Diarmuid Martin, a Vatican diplomat who speaks five languages, was made Dublin's Archbishop in 2004 and has sought to clean up and revitalize the church. He spoke with Time's J.F.O. McAllister. How has Ireland changed since you left it for the Vatican 30 years ago? It used to be that Irish society...
...those evil creations are going to be used again. I do not fear that the human race will wipe itself out. Our species is very good at surviving. But I do find it sad that reason will prevail only if it is knocked into us, painfully. Katie O'Flynn Dublin Afghan Intolerance Re "A convert's plight" [april 3], on the case of Abdul Rahman, the Afghan who was prosecuted for converting to Christianity and eventually found asylum in Italy: As a British-born Muslim with royal Afghan ancestry, I find it deeply disturbing that Rahman was treated unfairly because...
...Designer Activists Ali Hewson & Rogan Gregory 45 & 33, Dublin & New York City...
KATIE O'FLYNN Dublin...
...from the spirit of the response: lines around the block to give blood, flowers left at the firehouses, lawmakers on the steps of Congress declaring there are no Democrats or Republicans, only Americans; the band played the Star Spangled Banner during the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, Dublin's shops closed for a day of mourning, Canadian stores sold out of American flags. WE ARE ALL AMERICANS, was the headline in Le Monde...