A new poll reveals that the Irish public are deeply divided in their attitudes towards the Catholic Church, which includes viewing the Church more negatively than Christianity in general.
Among the findings of the poll commissioned by the Iona Institute – and which limits its polling to the Republic of Ireland, and so does not include the six counties of Northern Ireland – is that the public are very evenly divided in their attitudes towards priests and nuns with almost exactly a third in each case viewing them positively, a third negatively, with the rest remaining neutral.
