During his speech to students in Northern Ireland earlier this week, President Obama criticized Catholic schools as a source of division within the Irish community.
“If towns remain divided, if Catholics have their schools and buildings, and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another, if fear or resentment are allowed to harden, that encourages division.” Obama said. “It discourages cooperation.”
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