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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Will TDs lose a day's pay on Wednesday?
A letter in The Irish Times yesterday: No Dáil sitting on Wednesday? Sir, – There will be no Dáil sitting on Wednesday as more than 100,000...
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An interesting quote from Napoleon Bonaparte: “The honest man never doubts the existence of God’.
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This is a worrying story. It’s written by Conor Pope and appeared in The Irish Times on Monday. It becomes ever more worrying how large org...
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On this day, Thursday, October 11, 1962 The Second Vatican Council began. It was the first ecumenical council of the Catholic Church in c do...
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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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