Surge in ‘no-religion’
The idea that God can forgive the Holy Ghost Fathers, but will hold a gay person to account for their sins, just isn’t going to fly. People won’t believe in that God. And they don’t.
Ireland in 2022 is a mirror image of Ireland in 1952 in almost every single way
Penal crosses have been described as one of the few examples of Irish folk art.
Did not prevent depression
Unsolved mysteries.
If it is the fate of the Irish Church to die, then it will die. But it should die with its head held high for the things it believes to be eternally true. Not crawling on its belly before the whims of the moment.
The number one rule for people who think as the President does is that when Islamic extremists attack, the west must be to blame.
Colm Meaney writes on the on the feast of Pentecost
Assumptions.
BEN SCALLAN: Dr. Peter Boylan appears horrified that Saint Vincent’s hospital – which is named after a Catholic saint – features religious iconography. But the real question here is, what normal person actually gives a rat’s?
Fixation.