The Church’s perilous passage through rough waters

The Church’s perilous passage through rough waters The simple traditional faith of Irish people, seen here marking the Eucharistic Congress in 1932 in Waterford, faced new challenges in later decades. Photo: from Old Ireland in Colour 2, by John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley, Merrion Press, €24.95.

Forbidden Ireland: Church and State – 1951 to The Present Day, by T.  P.  O’Mahony, introduction by Rosita Sweetman (Mercier Press. €16.99 / £14.50)   T. P. O’Mahony was for many years the religious affairs correspondent first for the Irish Press in Dublin and then later for the Cork Examiner. He has written several books…

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