Posts Tagged ‘Irish Republic’

Priests ‘face prison’ for saying Mass in public

Monday, November 2nd, 2020

Under new Covid restrictions passed into Irish law recently, a priest can now be fined, or imprisoned, or both, for saying Mass in public. The same applies to any minister of religion who holds a public act of worship. This is drastic, draconian and unacceptable and must raise questions about the Constitutionality of the measure, Read more

Pre-famine Irish Catholics: fewer priests, less devout says new doco

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

A new documentary claims many Irish Catholics practised a mixture of Catholicism and pagan rituals before the Great Hunger (1845-1849) triggered a major turning point for the Church in Ireland. Released yesterday, Irish broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTE)’s documentary Rome V Republic examines the events that led up to and followed the Church’s hold over Read more