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The AOH is calling upon NYC Mayor de Blasio to "publicly condemn the increasing acts of violence against the Catholic Church in New York City."A statement issued on August 11 by James Russell, the Catholic Action Chairman of the AOH, reads: "The New York State Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) calls upon both Mayor de Blasio to publicly condemn the increasing acts of violence against the Catholic Church in New York City as exemplified by the vandalism this past weekend at Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mary Church in The Bronx. Clothes were put in front of the statue of...

America’s largest Irish group, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, has slammed black MSNBC host Joy Reid for what they say were her racist comments about Irish Americans. Reid wrote on Twitter: “Kelly grew up in segregated Boston, in an Irish Catholic neighborhood where women were bullied, not honored, and blacks scorned & rejected.” Reid made the comments about the Boston Irish after Boston native and White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly had criticized African American congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson […] Neil Cosgrave, the chairman of the AOH anti-defamation committee, slammed Reid and MSNBC saying, “It is hard to...

Dr. John Lahey, the chairman of NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Inc., the legal corporation responsible for the parade, has forcefully hit back at critics who charge that he and members of the corporation’s board are attempting to secularize the march and erase the influence of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the parade’s affiliated organizations. […] Lahey also had a strong message for the AOH and the 170 organizations affiliated with the St. Patrick’s Day parade: There are no underhanded attempts underway to lessen their influence on the parade in any way, and a campaign by supporters of current...

The Catholic League said Thursday that it will sit out next year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York because event organizers aren’t letting an anti-abortion group march. The group, formally known as the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, has been marching for 20 years, said its president, Bill Donohue. …

New Orleans — It wasn’t a beautiful New Orleans Ash Wednesday morning at The Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis King of France, the oldest Catholic cathedral in continual use in the United States. The sun was trying to peek out from behind the clouds and scattered drops of rain fell on the artists and street vendors of the square. The brothers of the James Cardinal Gibbons Division and the Archbishop Philip M. Hannan Division, both from Louisiana, alongside Kinght of the Holy Sepulchre, Sir Patrick Allen of Francis P. Beirne Division 9 in New York, gathered in the side alley of...

Please come and join Middlesex County Right to Life in Protest and solidarity on Sunday, March 14th, 2004, at 12:30 pm, at the corner of Rt. 35 and Main St., Woodbridge, NJ,  (in front of the Woodbridge K of C building), to watch the Irish Club's St. Patrick's Day parade.   The Middlesex County Right to Life was banned from marching in this parade, being told by the Irish Club parade organizers that they are not religious or political where they implied that the MC RTL was; the NJ RTL/NJ RTL PAC and its county affiliates are non-partisan and non-religious and  have backed members...

HIBERNIANS SPLIT OVER MCGREEVEYJuly 5, 2004 To become a member of the Catholic, Irish-American fraternal organization, members must take an oath to uphold certain core values. The governor's political views, some say, are opposed to those values. A number of members of an Irish-Catholic organization want Gov. James E. McGreevey removed due to his support of several social and political issues - views that contradict those he once vowed to uphold as a member. The Hibernians are a long-standing Irish-Catholic national organization whose mission, besides advocating a free Ireland, is to act as an advocate for the Roman Catholic Church...