Where will my countrymen find transcendence now, asks Michael Duggan
In the middle of the last century, whenever they needed to experience the good, the true, the beautiful, most Irish people would have turned to the Catholic Church as the primary and unquestionable source of all three. How times have changed. Marie Collins, the campaigner and sexual abuse survivor, said in the run-up to the recent visit of Pope Francis that the moral authority of the Church in Ireland had been “completely destroyed”. The Catholic case for what is good and true was certainly scorned by vast numbers of the Irish in the recent referendums.
