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Sacred Spaces
St. Peter’s Church (Peterskirche) Vienna, Austria
True Beauty
O Vos Omnes (Newman University Church, Dublin, Ireland)
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Robert Royal
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Brad Miner
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The snakes have returned to Ireland
John Duggan
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
In Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day has morphed into a kind of government-sponsored “Ireland Day” that mocks the holiday’s roots in traditional Catholic piety. “St. Patrick’s Day” (and its slang adjunct “Paddy’s Day”) is now a global mega-brand, too lucrative to drop, and the springboard for all kinds of hilarious costumery – and worse.