Diocesan News29 Sep 11

Bishop of Derry Condemns Graffiti in Londonderry

Bishop Good stated,

'In Northern Ireland we have witnessed and endured too many times when intimidation has been used as an insidious means of dealing with internal disagreement within a community. Cowardly and anonymous words, specifically intended to intimidate and to undermine other people, have done great damage, not only to those directly concerned, but to us all.

'When we declare that we wish to belong to a society where civil and religious liberty prevails, as we rightly do, we must also be willing, as a consequence, to allow others the liberty of expressing views which may differ from our own. When differences of viewpoint exist within a community, maturity and civility requires of us that we express our disagreement in a ways that are not destructive either to person or property.'

ENDS