AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN!: THE RISE AND DEMISE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN 20TH-CENTURY IRELAND - Softcover

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Holy Catholic Ireland! The Isle of the saints and scholars! In the mid 20th century 'Irish' and 'Catholic' were indeed synonymous, with the power and control of the Catholic Church in Ireland total, complete and absolute! But by the late 1960s, a new Ireland was emerging!
1979 and 2018 saw the arrival of two different Popes to our shores, each with the same mission, - to halt the increasing moral decline in our country!
And today? Ever decreasing attendances at Church services and ever-decreasing vocations to the priesthood and religious orders are symptomatic of the declining power of that same Catholic Church in Ireland!
So, how did the Catholic Church come to be so powerful in Ireland by the mid 20th century? And how did it lose that power? Who were the main movers, makers and shakers in the rise and demise of the Catholic Church in Ireland?
The answers are in this book!

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