EWTN Sanitizes Masonic Orange Order Suppression as Secular Peacekeeping
The EWTN News portal reports that the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Sir Chris Bryant, has prohibited a planned procession of the Portadown District Loyal Orange Lodge through Garvaghy Road, a predominantly Catholic area in County Armagh. The decision, justified by police assessments of a “risk of serious injury” and a “wider contagion effect,” overturns an August High Court ruling that had lifted a previous Parades Commission ban. The article frames the dispute solely within the dialectic of “unionists” versus “republicans,” citing the 3,700 deaths of “the Troubles” and quoting Bryant’s call for “breathing space” and “rebuild[ing] relations.” The piece concludes with a promotional footer for EWTN’s global bureaus and a link to a “worldwide Marian Eucharistic procession” in Northern Ireland.