Post by Séamus on Sept 5, 2022 2:07:22 GMT
I learnt only yesterday that Albania,one of Europe's few traditionally Muslim areas, Teresa of Calcutta is celebrated with an annual holiday. Despite religious life generally being a call to self-effacement,not a few nuns in history have materially walked the world stage,in the case of Mother Teresa during an era that is being recalled these days through the death of the last Soviet leader,the assassination attempt of Salman Rushdie,whose 80s book made many of aware of the rise of Islam as a world power in a new and dramatic way, and also the recent beatification of pre-Glasnost John Paul I,who died while countries like Albania were still entrenched in constitutional atheism and anti-Westernism and whose own election to the papacy may have indirectly come as a result of Aldo Moro's assassination by Italian communists, something that's claimed to have expedited the death of his predecessor.
A particular presbytery I know of has many retro-paperbacks from the era. Releases like Like a Thief In the Night,cashed in on speculative theories on both the early death of John Paul I and the shooting of his successor. I can't help thinking noticing that John Magee was in the thick of the controversy. This,paired with Mother Teresa's involvement with the Loreto Sisters,shows how a more-Catholic Ireland played an integral part in events considered important to the religious and secular alike. Will current Ireland be remembered in four decades time in a similar way,apart from individuals that dissolve themselves in EU or WHO monoliths?
A music video produced for Enya's How Can I Refrain From Singing? is worth revisiting as it includes shots from the attempted coup against Mr Gorbachev,as well as other events from the early '90s,some of which I don't remember and are perhaps forgotten altogether.
Just as positive or more so,is the nice feeling that a country in Eastern Europe is enjoying a day off in a context unforeseeable in my childhood and teenage years.
A particular presbytery I know of has many retro-paperbacks from the era. Releases like Like a Thief In the Night,cashed in on speculative theories on both the early death of John Paul I and the shooting of his successor. I can't help thinking noticing that John Magee was in the thick of the controversy. This,paired with Mother Teresa's involvement with the Loreto Sisters,shows how a more-Catholic Ireland played an integral part in events considered important to the religious and secular alike. Will current Ireland be remembered in four decades time in a similar way,apart from individuals that dissolve themselves in EU or WHO monoliths?
A music video produced for Enya's How Can I Refrain From Singing? is worth revisiting as it includes shots from the attempted coup against Mr Gorbachev,as well as other events from the early '90s,some of which I don't remember and are perhaps forgotten altogether.
Just as positive or more so,is the nice feeling that a country in Eastern Europe is enjoying a day off in a context unforeseeable in my childhood and teenage years.
