Posts Tagged ‘Francis in Ireland’

Fading faith: Can the pope connect with a changed Ireland?

Thursday, August 23rd, 2018
Ireland

In the past four decades Ireland has become a different country, but you wouldn’t know it in Knock. In the small west of Ireland town that is home to the huge Marian shrine complex, it was hard to find a space on the tightly packed pews at 11am mass last week. The rows of the Read more