Many books, articles and TV documentaries and discussions have made the point that the Catholic Church in Ireland was, in its time, too puritanical, and repressive about sexual matters. From sociologists like Tom Inglis, who wrote Moral Monopoly, to T.P. O’Mahony, who recently published Forbidden Ireland, the takeaway message has been the same. There was…
Today’s scandals help us understand ‘Victorian values’

Mary Kenny