Number of Catholics at an all-time high in new Irish census data

Church`s remaining open are one thing, getting Catholics into them is quite another. Like myself more and more are content at speaking directly to the man above. Why communicate via an organisation that has lost its integrity.

The 1926 census showed that 107,000 protestants had left the Irish Free State, the same year the divorce Bill, Censorship Bill, Contraception Bill all past into law the Irish state had become a Catholic State. W.B Yeats "I am proud to be a typical member of that minority with whom you have done this thing(...)if we have not lost our stamina then your victory will brief and your defeat final and when it comes this Nation maybe transformed" Thank god that the Catholic church is no longer in a moral position to dictate to any Irish citizen.

As in America more Catholics are going to Mass but few are following the "old rules" of confession, contraception and divorce. Church laws are not obeyed anymore, but the basic belief in Jesus, prayer and communion is getting much stronger.

Ireland was the ship of fools left afloat in Northern Europe after every other country turned to Protestantism. Given what has has happened in the Catholic Church and the fact that even one church remains open, that ship is still afloat.

Clearly some group, Journos, pollsters or writers ought to make up their mind. A bit like caffeine is bad for you..caffeine will save your life. Every time you turn around the story of dwindling Irish Catholicism appears, Catholics and the priests that guide them are in such short supply that the church is looking for the family pet to deliver Sunday Mass....which is it...?