If you don’t agree with the Catholic Church, there are plenty of other churches one can join, says MARIA MAYNES who thinks that the Mary McAleese and some in the Irish media are using the death of Pope Francis to promote their own agenda.
“On we marched to the break, as I sat there still hoping the presenter might take a tie out of his pocket, but to no avail.”
Protestantism is right there, lads.
The eyes of the world turn to Rome.
“Why are these orders not being raided by the Gardaí?”
“Prognosis guarded” says Vatican
High Court action
If the Church won’t stand up for itself, who will?
Data analysis
All the centuries of humiliation, the Penal laws, the genocidal famine and sheer abuse that had been meted out, did that turn these people into monsters?
Until one question has been convincingly answered, one can hardly blame the public for suspecting that the Church might still have that problem, or that it might come back with a vengeance.
Which came first? The Catholic Church? Or the people? The latter, surely: nowhere else in Europe was the Catholic Church given such power by democratically-elected governments.