A road well-trodden. (Letters to the Editor).It appears that Irish voters are forging the way for their American counterparts. As Medb Ruane pointed out, it is no longer the case that Irish voters ask "how high?" when told to jump by the bishops and their allies in the Fianna Fail party. Just as well, considering some of the things the bishops have asked us to support. It may well be that the bishops' complicity com·plic·i·ty n. pl. com·plic·i·ties Involvement as an accomplice in a questionable act or a crime. complicity Noun pl -ties in several sex abuse scandals, one even leading to the fall of the Fianna Fail government in 1994, has turned the voters away. It will be interesting to see whether voters in the US take note of President George W. Bush's outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. to Catholic voters and the bishops' reciprocation reciprocation /re·cip·ro·ca·tion/ (re-sip?ro-ka´shun) 1. the act of giving and receiving in exchange; the complementary interaction of two distinct entities. 2. an alternating back-and-forth movement. . Let's hope that they decide that the two camps are welcome to each other and remember that religion and politics are a volatile and often dangerous mix. Michael Kennedy
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (February 27, 1958 – December 31, 1997), was the sixth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. , Galway, Ireland |
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