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D A T OUR job E ake it Y D M ® rder O M to grow the A T E R I A L —HIS EMINENCE, PATRICK CARDINAL O’DONNELL of Ireland Vol. LXXXV No. 3 USPS 373340 June-July 2018 1.50 NY State honors Ireland’s 1918 Freedom Mandate In This Issue… Commemorating the Great Hunger Pat Mahoney Glastonbury, CT ©oconnellphotos.com Page 13 New Division! New York Hibernians on the steps outside the Assembly chamber in the State Capitol in Albany. More photos, page 20. New York Hibernians from Suffolk County to the City of historic election where Ireland stunned Britain by voting for the Buffalo, led by State Presidents Victor Vogel and Jacqueline Easter Rising and a free Irish parliament or Dail Eireann. Clute, were applauded in the State Senate and Assembly chambers The ceremonies in both state houses preceded a celebration at the on April 24, and won State Legislative Resolutions honoring Albany AOH Hall, where Senator Phil Boyle presented a framed Ireland’s 1918 Freedom Mandate. The AOH and LAOH copy of the State Senate Resolution to the State Presidents. Full picked April 24th, the calendar day of the 1916 Rising, to honor the story, see page 20. Division President Jim Larkin Hear the message of brave souls Albuquerque. NM Page 10 By John D. Fitzmorris III crises of its modern history. Not only are young people being Three Generations of Hibernians Both Irish and Irish-Americans know full-well the viciousness disappeared and killed, the dimension of this barbarity has and depravity once directed at members of the Catholic clergy and reached all levels of society and the Church has had a ‘Black religious. The long, sad history of the Penal Laws and acts of April’,” the Catholic Multimedia Center wrote in an article. “Three oppression against Catholics – both in Ireland and America – priests have died in violent circumstances, raising indignation and serves as a reminder that there are still places in this world where concern among bishops across the country.” nuns and priests serve God’s people under a cloud of fear and On May 1, militants killed a Roman Catholic priest in Bangui, anxiety for their own lives. the violence-wracked capital of the Central African Republic where In 2014, Sister Bernadetta Boggian returned to her convent in Catholic and other faith leaders had made headway recently Burundi and found the bodies of two of her fellow sisters. Later mediating between factions. Former members of a militant group that night, Boggian herself had been beaten, raped and named Seleka were accused of killing Fr. Albert Walter Butler Suffolk County, NY decapitated. The cause of the murders? The killer claimed the Toungoumale–Baba on May 1 at the Notre Dame of Fatima Page 15 convent was constructed on his family’s land. The Missionaries of Church. Of the hundreds of worshippers gathered at the church, at Charity, an organization founded by Mother Theresa, was first least 24 were killed and 170 injured by militants who sprayed attacked by gunmen in Hodeida, Yemen, in 1998. Years later, in bullets into the crowd and detonated grenades. The prior month State News Alabama . .9 March 2016, gunmen once again attacked the organization in saw the murder of Fr. Joseph Desire Angbabata, who served in a Colorado . .8, 12, 19 Yemen, targeting a retirement home. Four nuns were among the 16 parish east of Bangui. The priest had intervened to protect refugees Connecticut . .13 victims, adding to the 6,200 civilian casualties lost to the country’s camped at the church compound from the rebels. Illinois . .14 civil war. In the Philippines, Fr. Mark Ventura was shot dead on April 29 Indiana . .19 Kansas . .13 On April 26 of this year, Fr. Moises Fabila Reyes appeared to after he celebrated Mass at a gymnasium. The priest was blessing Kentucky . .14 have died of a heart attack following a reported kidnapping, amid children and talking with the choir members when an unidentified Massachusetts . .16 a wave of violence against clerics. Back in February, two priests male wearing a motorcycle helmet emerged from the back of the Minnesota . .15 were gunned down as they returned from Candlemas celebrations gym and shot the victim twice. Missouri . .16 New Jersey . .13 in a corner of Mexico rife with drug cartel violence and On April 25, church and government officials in Nigeria New Mexico . .10 increasingly lethal for prelates. Frs. Ivan Anorve Jaimes and confirmed that two priests were among the at least 15 people killed New York . .15, 18, 23, 24 Germain Muniz Garcia were killed as they drove between the cities when gunmen attacked a Catholic church in Ayar-Mbalom, a North Carolina . .6 of Taxco and Iguala in Guerrero state, about a hundred miles south community in Benue state where the Muslim north meets the Pennsylvania . .14 Texas . .15, 17 of Mexico City. The two slain priests were musicians, who Christian south, and where violence that has both religious and Washington DC . .17 performed in remote hamlets and “approached people” and ethnic undertones. Father Joseph Gor and Father Felix Tyolaha of West Virginia . .15 “evangelized” through music. Twenty-five priests have been killed St. Ignatius Catholic Church were celebrating early morning Mass in Mexico since 2012. 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