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Ireland officially on four days Easter holidays but how many will go to Church - VIDEO

Posted on Friday, April 06, 2012 at 10:39 AM
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pics on SodaheadIreland is officially on a four days weekend for Easter including Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter long weekend but how many Irish will actually be going to Church.

Although information on from the Census released this year shows that 86 percent of the Irish people consider themselves Catholic a vox pop taken last year by RealCatholicTV.com showed that only 1 out of the 24 people said the attend mass regularly.

RealCatholicTV say "The decline of the Church is perhaps felt nowhere more acutely than in Ireland. Once a model of holiness and apostolic zeal, its downfall is a serious wakeup call for The Church in America and other countries."

Here's the footage take outside Trinity College on College Green in Dublin:



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misneac | Apr 11, 2012, 03:41 PM EDT
This continuous propaganda that the Catholic Church in Ireland is in serious decline is total nonsense ! Over the Easter weekend I attended several ceremonies , and on each occasion the Church was full . A look at the profile of the people interviewed gave the desired answers . I could have predicted their response !

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Claire2 | Apr 07, 2012, 07:19 PM EDT
This video is years old!

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ciaradexy | Apr 07, 2012, 06:18 PM EDT
Homosexual rights??? Eh more like people can see through the fairy tale! Paedo rapist priests might have something to do with it for some.

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eiriamach | Apr 07, 2012, 04:24 AM EDT
In the video Voris talks about a "cataclysmic meltdown of the Church." And in the end he blames it on "homosexual rights." But NO ONE he interviewed mentioned gays or homosexuality. There was no connection with it in the interviews! The young people who said they go to church told him they go because their parents insist on it. They are under parental control. And the Roman Catholic Church is the Great Parental Authority, lashing them about with rules and prohibitions, as though there are not enough constraints already in their lives. The young woman who said "Only men can be priests" and Church is full of "rules and regulations" and the others who said that they just "don't believe" or "it's boring" or it was "social pressure" had something to tell Voris, but he wasn't listening. It's easier to blame the gays. He probably blames them for the economic meltdown, global warming, and the vending machine that kept his Euro and gave him nothing....

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barneyjo | Apr 06, 2012, 07:05 PM EDT
Gee this Guy seems very intent on putting the "fun" back into "Fundamentalism" :)

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jack4950 | Apr 06, 2012, 05:33 PM EDT
if i wasnt for the pensions the vatican gives to older priests most of them would have been gone long time ago. If he wants to talk aout gay men all he has to do is look at those closet priests who are around him every day but then again I am not too sure about him. Dont worry controling roman catholicism will be gone but spirituality, love as taught by Jesus will rise to the. the scare tactics.. Its a mortal sin if you miss sunday Mass doesnt work any more buster.

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jcannaday3 | Apr 06, 2012, 02:52 PM EDT
That video is an embarrassment. No wonder people kicked the dust off their feet as they walked out of church.

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