In this topsy-turvy world where up is down, wrong is right, and compromise is evil, is it any wonder that we question those institutions, secular and spiritual, that we for so long have depended upon?
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President Barack Obama dispatched former President Bill Clinton to mediate the dispute between what had been the strongest of allies. Arriving in Dublin, Clinton said there was still hope the parties could reconcile their differences.
He urged the pope and prime minister to attend a peace conference in Geneva. But talks broke down before they began when an Irish agent discovered that the Vatican had secret plans to invade Ireland.
He urged the pope and prime minister to attend a peace conference in Geneva. But talks broke down before they began when an Irish agent discovered that the Vatican had secret plans to invade Ireland.
The rarely seen Vatican Navy had cobbled together a fleet in the harbor at Naples and the Holy See planned to transport an advance unit of elite Swiss Guards to a remote section of the Irish coast where they would establish a beachhead in preparation for the landing of a larger force.
The Irish prime minister accused the Vatican of launching a new crusade and pledged to resist any effort to occupy Irish soil. Paraphrasing Winston Churchill, he said: “We shall fight on the beaches, in the hills, valleys, villages, peat bogs, pubs, and parks to defend our sacred land.”
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