The difference of views between Bishop Niall Coll (I-Gen and Gen Z youth) and Fr Brendan Hoban (writing recently in The Western People) is about more than one bishop’s reading of youth culture or one priest’s irritation with it. It goes to the heart of the deepest question facing Irish Catholicism: where, exactly, is renewal…
Neither nostalgia nor process will renew the Irish Church
Members of the Laurentian Society gather for tea and discussion at the Trinity College Dublin chaplaincy. Photo: Frida Hennig

