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It’s not Catholic, for one thing

THE death of the Pope presented the taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland with a dilemma: Should he declare an official day of mourning or not? After all, Ireland is a country whose Catholicism, like that of Poland, has for centuries been intimately connected with its national identity and struggle for independence: and even the Jesuit-educated atheist of Cuba,

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Anthony Daniels

Mr. Daniels, a retired doctor who worked in several parts of the world, is the author of Mass Listeria, a book about health scares.

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It’s not Catholic, for one thing

THE death of the Pope presented the taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland with a dilemma: Should he declare an official day of mourning or not? After all, Ireland is a country whose Catholicism, like that of Poland, has for centuries been intimately connected with its national identity and struggle for independence: and even the Jesuit-educated atheist of Cuba,