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Michael Carchrie Campbell

Celebrating our Saints: it’s one way of celebrating our European identity

May 12, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

We all know how much we in Ireland like to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, coming up soon is the Breton equivalent: Gouel Erwan, St Yves. Well this year, the Breton Association in Ireland has chosen to celebrate it in Belfast. Breizh Eire, association des Bretons d’Irlande a choisi de faire cette année la Gouel Erwan […]

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Disappointed with Tim Farron or Naomi Long? I’m not…

May 22, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell 2 Comments

Following this afternoon’s vote in the debate on the third reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, Christopher Lovell has expressed his disappointment at Tim Farron’s “abstention” today. It seems that Mr Lovell who lives in Leeds, not in Tim’s constituency, feels that because there is no vote recorded by Tim Farron in today’s […]

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£120k needed to stop Jewish religious silk hangings from leaving the UK

April 6, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

Ed Vaizey MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has placed a temporary export bar on the seven hangings which lasts until 20 May 2013 but may be extended to 20 August 2013 if a serious intention to raise funds to purchase them at the recommended price of £120,000 […]

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Disappointed with Tim Farron or Naomi Long? I’m not…

May 22, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell 2 Comments

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results and more tests…

August 11, 2011 By hivblogger Leave a Comment

It’s only two weeks since I was up at the HIV clinic at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. That appointment was an emergency one due to the somewhat awful cough and chest infection from which I was suffering at the time. The news back then was that the results from May’s blood tests were […]

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Queen’s Birthday Honours – links through the Liberal Democrats, Northern Ireland, and Scouting…

June 15, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

It’s the night before [now the morning of—Ed.] the Official Birthday of HM The Queen, so we now know who has been honoured on this occasion. I have looked through the lists as published by HM Government, and have found the following to be either LIberal Democrats, from Northern Ireland, and in one case […]

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Orangefest gone wrong…

July 13, 2012 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

I have just watched some footage which it is said is from the Twelfth of July parade in Belfast yesterday. It is clearly outside St Patrick’s Church in Donegall Street. The marching could be said to be dignified, and it is certainly not simply standing there doing nothing. However, I don’t recognise the hymn tune […]

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Filed Under: Belfast, Law, news, Northern Ireland life Tagged With: Catholic Church, Donegall Street, Marching, Orange Order, Parades Commission, The Twelfth

Preparing for Advent 2011 – part one

August 23, 2011 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

Most English-speaking Catholics are looking forward to when they will be able to use the new translation of the Roman Missal for the first time. Some of us are very lucky that the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is already using that text. I was fortunate to be able to attend the Ordinariate’s […]

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Filed Under: catholic, Personal Ordinariate, Roman Missal Tagged With: Catholic Church, Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, Roman Missal, The Mass, United States, Vimeo

Faith and Pride: on being offensive

August 3, 2011 By Andrew McFarland Campbell Leave a Comment

Andrew McFarland points us to his post on Faith and Pride: “on being offensive”.

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Filed Under: Blogging, christian, Faith and Pride, LGBT Tagged With: Catholic Church, Christ, Christian, Christianity, Faith, Gay Lesbian and Bisexual, Jesus, Religion and Spirituality

Faith, Hope and Charity

August 1, 2011 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

At Antioch, the passion of the seven holy brothers Machabees, with their mother, who suffered under King Antiochus Epiphanes. Their relics were translated to Rome and buried in the church of St Peter ad Vincula. At Vercelli, the birthday of St Eusebius, Bishop and Martyr, who for his confession of the Catholic faith was sent […]