Nevertheless, some in the opinion-forming classes and on social media continue (to borrow a phrase from Niall Gooch) to run bombing missions over the rubble of Catholic Ireland. This is the true measure of how things stand. As I write, almost uniquely in Europe under COVID, Ireland has made offering or attending Mass a criminal offense. Don’t be fooled by the shaky residual attachment to things like First Holy Communion. Ireland nowadays seems filled with people who are content to ignore, forget, or step around what’s left of Catholicism, including the actual church buildings themselves. The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship
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