The UK's five archbishops harshly condemned a Brexit trade bill for undermining international law and endangering the peace process in Northern Ireland. “If carefully negotiated terms are not honored, and laws can be ‘legally’ broken,” the archbishops asked, “on what foundations does our democracy stand?”
Bishop John McDowell, an ecumenist who serves the rural border Diocese of Clogher, will succeed Archbishop Richard Clarke as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland