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The Magazine Committee accepts no responsibility for loss, damage or the return of material. Diocesan Oce Clogher Diocesan Oce, St.Macartin’s Cathedral Hall, Hall’s Lane, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. N.I. BT74 7DR Tel 02866347879 IAN MCELROY JOINERY Next Magazine in March For all your joinery, carpentry, roofing and tiling needs Deadline for submission of material strictly 15th February 2018. Content to be sent to [email protected] Tel: 02866385226 or 07811397429 Advertising rates are available upon request. Advertising charges for material submitted in addition to the routine diocesan and parish submissions will apply. Ordering your magazine If parishes wish to alter the number of magazines ordered each month, please inform Mrs. Barbara Ingram on 028 66 388306. Front Cover Canon David Skuce with some of the group who are currently in the Holy Land on the Clogher Diocese Pilgrimage, when they had a pre-tour meeting in the Cathedral Hall, Enniskillen. 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BT75 0QP Tel: 028 895 22461 Email: [email protected] Party’s least popular and least successful others that it needed the protection of a Leader, Edward Heath, and has led to a supranational body. bitter attritional internal war ever since. After the Second World War the European Although the UK was probably the integration project, promoted and principal, albeit not the only, begetter conditionally financed by the USA and of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 which which has resulted in the EU, had a dual introduced the Single Market, its purpose; to embed Germany and to deter opponents within the Conservative Party Stalin. From an American point of view almost unseated the then Prime Minister, this had the added dimension of enlisting John Major. Germany in the fight against communism. As a prelude to the current Brexit Strongly implicit in this vision was the diculties a senior Conservative eventual evolution of a political union Dimma from Kenya, who received support from a Christian Aid politician, Michael Gove, renowned for which, although not yet achieved, has YOUR SMALL agriculture project. his elaborate courtesy and intelligence been partly realised in projects such as first destroyed the Prime Minister (David the Schengen travel area and a common CHANGE CAN MAKE Great Britain and Europe Cameron) and then sunk the leadership security policy. Bishop John McDowell helps us prospects of his friend Boris Johnson, Britain’s European policy objectives A BIG DIFFERENCE understand an uneasy relationship whose campaign he had agreed to before and since have been altogether lead. In June 2016, just before the di¨erent. Every UK school pupil who has I try not to write directly about politics or Brexit Referendum that same leadership studied European history at ‘O’ Level will THIS LENT political matters in the Diocesan Magazine aspirant, now the Foreign Secretary, set have learnt that the primary objective of but as we have been and will probably out his post-Brexit plan in an article in British Foreign policy down to 1910 was to christianaid.ie continue to be bombarded with Brexit the Daily Telegraph, including the desire isolate France. Although something of a that the UK should remain within the caricature this was true insofar as Britain’s news I thought a little impartial historical Single Market. One senior civil servant aim was to maintain a balance of power in background would do no harm. characterised the idea as “science fiction”. Europe as a means of neutralising its two Since at least early modern times Great Whatever one’s personal views are about most potent nations, France and Germany. Britain has had an ambivalent relationship the UK leaving the EU, it is perhaps as This attitude is very deeply embedded with Europe from which it has always well to realise that its departure reflects in what might be called Establishment considered itself distinct but not separate. a deeper pattern of British history which thinking. In the 16th and 17th centuries This ambivalence manifested itself would have led to an exit at some future there was the threat to Protestantism very clearly in 1973 when the United date in any case. and parliamentary liberties from Philip Kingdom voted in a Referendum to join Brendan Simms, the Dublin born professor II and Louis XIV’s absolutism and from the European Economic Community but of International Relations and History at Counter Reformation Catholicism. In the More than 40 million people have This Lent, Christian Aid will walk the initiative was vigorously campaigned the University of Cambridge, has summed 19th century there was the challenge of been forced to flee their homes alongside these forgotten people. against by the left wing of the Labour up the relationship between Britain Revolutionary France (where, in the well- and seek refuge within their Party (soon to be in government), led by Download our ‘Count Your and the EU in two simple geopolitical known phrase of Pitt the Younger, England own countries, due to violence, Tony Benn.