Catholic Church Could Fall 'Over The Brink'
- Published: 23 February 2011
The Catholic Church could "fall over the brink" and become irrelevant to society, according to the Archbishop of Dublin.
In a dramatic speech to the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies in the Magdalene College in Cambridge, Diarmuid Martin said that Catholicism in Ireland was being reduced to a tiny minority and becoming "irrelevant in society".
During the speech entitled 'Keeping The Show On The Road', examining the future of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Bishop Martin quoted the Archbishop of Boston, who had conducted an Apostolic Visitation in the Archdiocese of Dublin, and found that Ireland has only five or at most ten years before it falls 'over the brink'.
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