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LONDON (OSV News) — Prominent Catholics have joined church leaders in condemning a wave of riots across the United Kingdom, while also urging greater understanding of current social grievances.
“The orchestrated violence seen on British and Northern Irish streets is an expression of social rage and hatred — those involved claim to be protecting communities and cultures, but their actions have divided and ruptured already fragile bonds of trust,” said Anna Rowlands, a professor who chairs the Center for Catholic Social Thought and Practice at Durham University.
“This isn’t standard summer riot behavior, but a new and worrying pattern of racial and religious intimidation, an attempt at vigilante border control within neighborhoods. Jewish, Asian, Black and Muslim communities are having to keep their children indoors in what should be a time of summer freedom. The routines of life have been altered, and in that lies an ugly power,” she said.
The lay theology professor spoke amid fears of further violence nationwide in the wake of the brutal July 29 killing of three small girls at a dance workshop in the northern town of Southport. Eight more children and two adults were injured with several remaining in critical condition.
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“The orchestrated violence seen on British and Northern Irish streets is an expression of social rage and hatred — those involved claim to be protecting communities and cultures, but their actions have divided and ruptured already fragile bonds of trust,” said Anna Rowlands, a professor who chairs the Center for Catholic Social Thought and Practice at Durham University.
“This isn’t standard summer riot behavior, but a new and worrying pattern of racial and religious intimidation, an attempt at vigilante border control within neighborhoods. Jewish, Asian, Black and Muslim communities are having to keep their children indoors in what should be a time of summer freedom. The routines of life have been altered, and in that lies an ugly power,” she said.
The lay theology professor spoke amid fears of further violence nationwide in the wake of the brutal July 29 killing of three small girls at a dance workshop in the northern town of Southport. Eight more children and two adults were injured with several remaining in critical condition.
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UK Catholics voice ‘shock and concern’ at new outbreak of nationwide disorder - OSV News
LONDON (OSV News) -- Prominent Catholics have joined church leaders in condemning a wave of riots across the United Kingdom, while also urging greater understanding of current social grievances. "The orchestrated violence seen on British and Northern Irish streets is an expression of social rage...
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