The tragic irony is that both Judaism and Islam trace their roots back to the same source

The rejection of collegiality has perhaps been the greatest single loss of Vatican II’s legacy, writes TP O'Mahony

The regular diners in the Roman trattoria close to the Irish College didn’t know it then, but the cleric joining in a chorus of The Banks of My Own Lovely Lee was none other than Cardinal Tomas O’Fiaich, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, who died suddenly in Lourdes on this day 30 years ago.