In today’s popular mindset, religion is often associated with violence rather than peace. On a superficial level, such associations could be forgiven. In the media we often see depictions of religion alongside violence, especially when reporting atrocities from across the world. Often such depictions are unrepresentative. But then the representative does not make the news. It is too boring and normal.Closer to home, I am struck by how we handle our own “religious conflict” and how revisionism has come to work its way through the contemporary narrative of the Northern Ireland Troubles. If one arrived today and was trying to assess the past, one could be forgiven for thinking the Christian Churches were the cause of the Troubles. Catholic schools in particular seem to be s
15 January 2015, The Tablet
Catholic schools seem to be singled out for blame for fuelling sectarianism
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