Friday, July 9, 2021

Twenty per cent of the population did not attend Mass

Derek Scally in his book, 'The Best Catholics in the World’ points out that approximately 80 per cent of the Catholic population did not attend Sunday Mass in the 18th century; yet Sunday Mass attendance later became one of the main criteria for judging people’s practice of the faith.

Derek Scally is The Irish Times correspondent in Berlin.

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