The IRA are the scum of the Earth. They pose as Catholics, they certainly don't act like them. And the Church at best turned a blind eye to their activities.
When the Pope sent Bobby Sands a rosary, I was very close to leaving the Church forever.
Agreed
I went to southie abnd went to a pub called the black rose(think it was called that)
and they were having collections for the terrorists there even the gaul of calling them political prisoners .
Another time I went to a pub in Quincy MA forget the name of it but it was in the center on Hancock street near a place called bad abbotts(another friendly IRA scum pub) and thye too had collections.
It was sad to see that some in MA had thought of them as some kind of freedom fighters.
When I pointed out how they put bombs on busses or pubs etc and killed many innocents they then changed their mind about this scum .
There was a mural in southe which mentioned NORAID and I was sick to the stomach.
Only after 9.11 did poepel wake up and see them as the cowardly scum they are
Remember -- the Pope forgave the man who attempted to assassinate him. Sending Bobby Sands a Rosary was a good thing for Sands. Hopefully he used it before he died....
Bobby Sands, like most of the IRA, was an atheist Communist.