Last year 217,716 paid-up Catholics jumped ship.
Approximately 24 million are Catholic and 23 million Protestants in a population of 80 million.
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In the current edition of the Irish Catholic David Quin writes about the controversy happening between US Catholic politicians and the US hi...
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Brother Thomas Casey was born in Tom Casey OP Killarney, Co Kerry on August 26, 1933. After school he joined the Cistercian Order in Roscrea... -
Former Dominican priest Tom Tom Brodie Brodie died in a nursing home in Galway yesterday. He had been ailing for some time. He was born in C...
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In Germany the Church tax is approximately €500 per person per annum if you earn €30, 000 gross.. The figures released therefore reflect the inability of people to pay for church membership which is free in other ccountries such as Ireland! It would be interesting to do a street survey in Ireland and discover how many would be willing to pay this!
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