The Decline of Catholicism in Ireland

The power of the Catholic Church, which was most strong in the 50s and 60s, weakened very rapidly thereafter. By the 70s, it had begun to wade. And by the 90s, it was gone. The church gave a pretext to people to be able to say something that they had really arrived at and a kind of secular atheist view of the world," he says. "This is what has delivered us to this absolutely catastrophic moment"