DUBLIN (IRELAND)
The Irish Catholic
January 2, 2020
State Papers: Echoes of the past from the archives
The annual release of files often reveal historical ironies in the private papers of the state that how perspectives on events and individuals in public life change constantly.
In the summer of 1989 Cardinal Bernard Law made a pilgrimage to Ireland to visit the shrines at Knock with a party of 100 from Boston. Though that was their main objective, the Cardinal also took the opportunity to visit the North with Dr Cathal Daly, then still Bishop of Down and Connor to guide him and to gain his own impressions of what was happening there from a nationalist point of view.
Bishop Daly had famously declared in the context of Irish affairs that “evil must be rejected totally and unequivocally. There must be no ambivalence, no double standards, no selective indignation.”
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