ChurCh of Ireland unIted dIoCeses CHURCH REVIEW of dublIn and GlendalouGh ISSN 0790-0384 Church Review is published monthly and usually available by the first Sunday. Please order your copy from your Parish A Letter from the Archbishop Elect by annual sub scription. €40 for 2011 AD. POSTAL SUBSCRIIPTIIONS//CIIRCULATIION I WAS INNOCENTLY chairing a meeting in the Theological Institute on the afternoon of Wednesday February 2nd when I found myself having to leave the Copies by post are available from: Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, meeting momentarily to take a telephone call. The caller was the archbishop of The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. Armagh, ringing to tell me that the Electoral College for Dublin and Glendalough E: [email protected] Dioceses wanted me to be the next archbishop of Dublin. I found myself asking for a T: 086 026 5522. little time, offering hopeful prayer and making two telephone calls. I then rang the The cost is the subscription and archbishop back, thanking him and the College and, in accepting the invitation, appropriate postage. pledging myself then, as I also do now, to do my best as God directs. My wife, Inez, and I had the pleasure of living for three years in Dublin at an earlier stage in our lives and enjoyed it thoroughly. A little more than twenty years later, returning will be an exciting COPY DEADLIINE experience. Dublin, of course, will have changed, yet from our earlier time living in Dublin we had All editorial material MUST be with the a great sense of a city with energy, a people and a place who felt they could do things and went Editor by 15th of the preceeding month, ahead and did them. no matter what day of the week. Material Moving house, moving location, moving to new work is always uprooting as well as exciting. should be sent by Email or Word There are challenges ahead of which one knows nothing. There are familiar situations where one attachment. feels instantly at ease and at home in a new place. At the heart of all of the work I, or anyone else in my position, seek to do are the people and the clergy who make it happen day by day. The VIIEWS EXPRESSED relationships within parishes, the relationships across Christian denominations, the work carried out and the friendships forged in schools and colleges – these are but a few of the aspects of Views expressed in the Church Review are coming to Dublin and Glendalough Dioceses to which I am looking forward. The interaction with those of the contributor and are not necessarily those of the Editor or Church those who make plans and policy for the geographical and social areas which comprise the United Review Committee. Dioceses along with co-operation with those of Christian traditions other than the Church of Ireland and those of a wide range of world Faiths is also part of the work ahead. EDITOR We live in times when authority itself has, for quite some time, been questioned. We live in EDITOR times when economic hardship, loss of work and loss of dignity have become part of the air which The Revd. Nigel Waugh, people breathe – and, rightly, never wanted to have to do so. These are the truly pastoral contexts The Rectory, Delgany, in which clergy minister and in which people live and in which hopes and dreams are challenged Greystones, Co. Wicklow. and often dashed. These people and situations are the weave of prayer and of worship and of T: 01-287 4515. human outreach in the name of God at every level of decision making and of compassion. This is T: 086 1028888. contemporary Ireland and it is the world which God came to love and to save by dwelling among E: [email protected] us. God abides with us still in that pain and in that alienation. Here is a focus of faith which cannot be set aside as a focus of failure. EDIITORIIAL ASSIISTANT In last month’s Church Review, the editor drew attention to the many qualities and gifts, skills and achievements of Archbishop John Neill and I should like to add to that the contribution made Noeleen Hogan by Mrs Betty Neill to the well-being of people of every diocese in which the Neills have lived. I wish to make a personal tribute to the energy and the sheer vitality of an Archbishop of Dublin who ADVERTIISIING gave himself eagerly and selflessly to the work before him. The affection in which he is still held testifies to the sustained contribution which he has made to the United Dioceses and also to the Advertising details and prices are available Church of Ireland. I have no idea what his shoe size is, but I know already those shoes will be very by emailing [email protected] or by hard to fill! Archbishop Neill has my respect and thanks for all he has done and given over a lifetime phoning Charlotte O’Brien on 086 026 of ministry which I know he has enjoyed thoroughly – and enjoys still in vigorous retirement. 5522. Copy should be sent to Archbishop Martin was among the first to offer me good wishes for the future and I look [email protected] or by post to forward to re-kindling my friendship with him and to working with him and his clergy and people Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, in many different ways. The Church of Ireland-Methodist Covenant is a living expression of trust The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow by and faith, a seeking under God for the expression of common mission. The Church of Ireland 15th of the month. Theological Institute is the envy of many Provinces across the Anglican Communion. There is moreover the urgent need to be led by the Holy Spirit into relationship with other Faith traditions CHIIEF REPORTER and out into the world around us. At the moment no date has been set for the enthronement service in Christ Church Cathedral. Orla Ryan. M: 087-2356472. I remain indebted to the archdeacons and dean who carry forward the life of the dioceses with E: [email protected] efficiency and commitment beyond the call of their other duties. I wish to say simply to the members of the United Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough how much I am looking forward to Single copies are available from: meeting you and to assure you that I am anticipating working together with all of you for the in- • The National Bible Society of Ireland, breaking of God’s Kingdom in the years ahead. Dawson Street. • The Resource Centre, Holy Trinity † Michael Church, Rathmines. COVER STORY: PRIINTIING the rt revd Michael Jackson, pictured with the Most revd alan harper, Primate of all Ireland and archbishop of armagh, following his election as Church Review is Printed in Ireland by the new archbishop of dublin and Glendalough. DCG Publications Ireland T: 048-90551811. F: 048-90551812. E: [email protected] ChurCh review 3 CelebratInG ItalIan unIfICatIon on saInt PatrICk’s day Patrick Comerford While most of us are celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day on 17 March, Italians around the world this year are marking the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the modern Italian state. As I think of classical Rome, Dante’s Florence, the Bay of Naples, La Scala in Milan, the canals and Carnival of Venice, or Romeo and Juliet in Verona, I find it hard to accept that Italy is a new European state, consolidated in the ferment of 19th century nation-state idealism. But modern Italy, as we know it, came into existence on 17 March 1861, after the defeat of forces fighting for Pope Pius IX and defending the Papal States. Two centuries ago or more, the Italian peninsula was a raggle-taggle collection of statelets, principalities and the remnants of left: the Coliseum... ancient rome is the capital of the modern Italian state. empires. They included: the Kingdom of the Two Centre: fair Juliet’s balcony in Verona. right: Verdi in Verona... the operas of Sicilies, embracing Naples and Sicily; the Grand Verdi helped to inspire the search for national identity. Duchy of Tuscany, with Florence as its capital; the Duchies of Parma and Modena; the Serene Republic of Venice; Lombardy, centred on Milan; the Papal States; the Kingdom of Savoy; and the Kingdom of Sardinia, including Genoa and Turin but separated from the island of Sardinia by Napoleon’s native Corsica. The process of Italian unification began after the defeat of Napoleon and the Congress of Modern Italy was created after the Vienna in 1815, when various European defeat of the Papal states. powers, especially Austria and France, carved of the Popes was an “historical lie, a political up Italy between themselves and divers local imposture, and a religious immorality.” despots and rulers, including the Pope. In 1858, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany united Cultural coalescing with the Duchies of Modena and Parma to The peninsula was divided linguistically, with form the United Provinces of Central Italy. Venice and the surrounding area no consensus on the elements of standard After their defeat at the bloody Battle of were incorporated into Italy in 1866. written or spoken Italian. But the writings of Solferino on 24 June 1859, the Austrians was confined to the Vatican, and Rome became Manzoni and the operas of Verdi helped to withdrew behind the “Quadrilateral” of four the new capital in July 1871. By then, however, inspire the search for national identity. The northern fortresses – Peschiera, Mantua, Nice and Savoy had fallen to France, and the last unification movement brought together radicals Legnano and Verona – and the Sardinian forces parts of modern Italy were not incorporated into such as Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe now dominated northern Italy, with the Central the state until after World War I.