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The late Hubert Butler once wrote a delightful essay called Influenza on Aran in which he examined the evidence for the early Irish saints. His title is explained in the first few sentences: “When I arrived in Aran by the Naomh Eanna at Kilronan I was sneezing, and by the time I had raced to St Enda’s Church at Killeany and seen the stone on which he had floated in from Connemara I was feverish and coughing. ....
December 30, 2020 The new chief clergyman of the Roman Catholic church in Barbados – the first native-born in the faith’s near 400-year history here – has called for answers to deeper questions on the nature of crime and violence in the country. Bishop-elect of the Diocese of Bridgetown Neil Scantlebury said on Tuesday that while prayer is important, the church must also work with the judicial system to address underlying issues affecting the perpetrators of crime. He declared: “We pray for a better environment, a better Barbados, and it is going to happen, it is happening, but we also have to do our part. Prayer is one part, but we also need to do practical things to help people to be better. ....