What Happened to Catholic Ireland?
11th May 2021
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. Don’t be fooled by the shaky residual attachment to things like First Holy Communion. As I write, almost uniquely in Europe under COVID, Ireland has made offering or attending Mass a criminal offense. Even outdoor confession is illegal. This is the true measure of how things stand.
To quote my grandmother Brennan: ‘All of the people worth anything left. There’s nobody there but losers and the descendants of losers.’