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Mary Wakefield

Why dismiss a Catholic priest for being Catholic?

28 July 2018

9:00 AM

28 July 2018

9:00 AM

They’re just kids! What’s your problem? This has become the default reaction of a whole raft of clever people to anyone who gets hot under the collar about the fashion for students banning things in universities: speakers, ideas, books. It was ever this way, they say, and besides, sometimes the kids are right.

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