What's Next for the Catholic Church in Ireland?

Ireland was once called, "the most Catholic country in the world." While that might not be true anymore due to a drastic decline in Mass attendance, Irish church leaders aren't giving up.
Student Fellow Meredith Stutz reports. For more reporting on this project visit: pulitzercenter....

[@thereisnosalvationoutsidet3246]

I am in America and I want to be a priest in Ireland. They need better catechists throughout the world. We also need the traditional mass

[@stevensmith228]

Why join a church that allowed for world wide child rape?

[@kingofcelts]

Neil Gonsalves That's correct Neil. Yes, there have been many scandals in Ireland as in every other country. But I contend as you do, it's the woeful negligence in Cathesis that's causing people to slowly float adrift from the church. Please do come over here and help re-evangelize! You'd be most welcome...

[@TeaLeafThief]

Neil Gonsalves .. your not welcome buddy.

[@TeaLeafThief]

bucketsandshims joke appreciated! Haha

[@thomasjhenniganw]

First of all, I would say stay in America and look around for where you can find a seminary where you could get a good formation to be a good priest. Then, once you are a priest, you could offer to go to Ireland and evangelize.

[@archsword2446]

St. Dismas( the first canonized saint) Pray for more priest in Ireland. St. Arethas of Najran( present day Saudi) Pray for Ireland. St. Patrick, Pray for Ireland.

[@wagelaseh1st74]

And here in my country Indonesia who had the largest muslim populations in the world around 80% muslim(240 million) and me as a catholic i can confirm like around 80% catholic in Indonesia attend a mass every week , wake up europe before it's too late 😌. 🇮🇩 , ps:sorry for my english.

[@arolemaprarath6615]

Your neighbour, Timor-Leste is 99% Catholic and very religious.

[@petermolloy992]

It’s a strange thing that Catholics want to be Catholic when it’s not easy to be Catholic. I’m embarrassed about Ireland. I have to believe that God shines a very special light on you, in these most difficult times. God must have a very warm heart for the people in Aisha who are so loyal to the faith.

[@jonathanlebo3710]

@@petermolloy992 Im embarrassed for Ireland the Magdalene laundries the child abuse and the fact they covered up mass graves of children in taum it’ll probably take a generation before people actually accept the church ever again

[@petermolloy992]

@@jonathanlebo3710 I agree it was terrible and it does look like the Church is a shambles, but the Church is not the people, we must stay and fight for the true Church, realize it was attached badly. I think many young men and women were pushed into vocations that didn’t really exist. They joined convents and seminaries just to please an Irish mammy, who in turn was sure she had earned a one way ticket to heaven, because she produced a vocation. I remember how viscous many nuns and certain priests (CBs especially) were when I was a kid. They must have been miserable and must have felt trapped. I went to boarding school for three years. Every morning you could smell whiskey off most of the priests. Not many of those men were happy. The priests I see these days (now on the other side of the pond…west side…) adore what they do. There is new energy coming into the Church and I hope this revitalization will reach Ireland soon.

[@revelution3658]

May the people lost find their way back to the Holy Catholic Church

[@user-go3jv8rw7i]

Revelution 365 I’m a satanist and I’m pretty happy with that

[@revelution3658]

Callum Prince of darkness well thank you for your comment :)

[@user-go3jv8rw7i]

Revelution 365 no problem have a nice day dude :)

[@FAngus-ly8lk]

Why? So their children can be abused by pedophile priests?

[@paddypenman2682]

God be with you Revelution 365. Blessed is he who shepards the weak through the shadow of darkness.

[@larry2569]

My Catholic friends. If, in the near future, it appears that the catholic church is breaking up due to corruption and you feel you have to leave the church, PLEASE, do not leave Jesus. It is NOT about religion, it is about God - Jesus. Do not leave the love of Jesus

[@dorothyclare]

i am 50 yrs old and nothing encourage me more in my faith and the future of the Catholic church than having young ppl like Ganiel who says yes to God's calling to the priesthood. God bless and prayers to all young ppl answering to GOds call Amen

[@captainBFH]

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

[@MeryComparte]

pray for the catholic church kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqDMZXh-pbJrbbM

[@deedeebrando6749]

captainBFH Amen

[@mx5mke]

Jesus is a LIAR who DOESN'T keep promoses. e.g. "jesus" also "promised" to return within the LIVES of his apostles. "Mark" didn't even WRITE his fable until (almost) 50 years AFTER the (supposed) guy's (supposedly) died. Also, too, besides, in addition, plus, "Mark" didn't mention ANYTHING abouyt "resurrection", and Mark kwas the earliest and (presumably) LEAST fictionalized and "hero-icized" surviving fable of jesus.

[@CatholicTruthOfficial]

Amen!

[@yahulwagoni4571]

How did you infer he was a Jew? But more importantly, why do you care? Probably half of the US believes that - not to mention most of Europe. The Church lost faith in itself; that is why it crumbled, not from without but from within. That is the real issue, not what third parties say. What say they? Why should you care? Get back to work, rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, like Ezra and Nehemiah did of old. As it is written: Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be torn by their teeth. We have escaped like a bird from the fowler’s snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. (Psalm 124).

[@ulahHeidi97]

come to Samoa and see how our Catholic Faith still strong prayers for you Ireland

[@hospitallerknight7106]

The church will always survive, Jesus promised.

[@laganlurcher1947]

Only someone wired up to a cornflake could believe Christian stuff that a man died on a torture device then 3 days after being dead turned himself into a full flying Zombie & floated up out of tomb & then flew up to the clouds to Skydaddy sitting on a throne. Only someone wired up to a chocolate bar could believe Muslim stuff that Mohammad rode on the back of a wing horse galloped & flapped took off into the sky & flew up to heaven to Allah. People need to grow up & grow out of their imaginary invisible friend.

[@MeryComparte]

pray for the catholic church kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJTdaWiioMiZhaM

[@laganlurcher1947]

Why would anyone want to be to be a flesh eating cannibalistic blood drinking Vampire & flying Zombie priest. They are cannibals because they eat dead man flesh from an ancient 2000 year old cadaver & they are vampires for drinking dead man blood in church rituals. They are Zombies because they eat dead man flesh & they vampire drink the blood from a dead flying Zombie that floated up from a tomb & flew up to clouds after he had been dead for three days at Easter. Drinking blood from dead flying Zombies turns the flesh eating cannibals & blood drinking vampire priests into full Vampirish cannibalistic flying Zombie Priests & they were probably already homosexual, pervert paedophiles & compulsive liars to start with or they wouldn't have become priests in the first place.

[@andreasd1202]

+bucketsandshims damned you

[@syedahmef9785]

Is it written in the Bible?

[@brooks7845]

As an Indian Catholic, this video hurts a lot.

[@atn2018]

As an Indian Catholic, this is true and it hurt me years back and even now but let's pray for our religious brother , sister and all our Catholic brethren everywhere. I may be a lukewarm Catholics, but Catholicism is so beautiful and Sacred which I will not trade with any other denominations or religion...

[@seanmoore4269]

Well as Ghandi once said, " Christianity is a good idea, it's just never been tried!"

[@koko2bware]

​@@seanmoore4269 Truth is ... Ghandi's words often projected the evil deeds of his own people in India out of his frustration onto others !!

[@georgepenton6023]

Bring back the Traditional Latin Mass and the Catholic people will come back.

[@mick1gallagher]

You're just a deluded fool

[@kevinmurray1235]

If that happens the church will be more empty.. theirs a new God it's called the internet young people don't have tie for the church they find it boring

[@dibble2005]

Thats right. Run back to the past. Typical.

[@neville132bbk]

The 3 people below who deride your view appear unaware that while parishes fold and dioceses shrink in the US, traditional churches whether SSPX or FSSP are thriving, with a heavy representation of young families and "young people". Post Vatican 2, for whatever reason, it has been all downhill,,,

[@andoylanggid]

For a Filipino Catholic whose country owes not a small debt of gratitude to the heroism and faith of Irish missionaries in the hinterland and remote islands of the Philippines, Ireland would always be special for us Filipinos. I for one don't believe that a people who has done so much to bring the faith to others on the far away corners of the world would just leave it to die in their own backyard. Knowing the Irish, the devil is in for a fight.

[@hermosilo7112]

Catholic church is here to stay. Its guided by the Holy Spirit. People may changed but the church will forever stand until the end of time, coz Jesus himself is the founder. Live Truth.Live Catholic.

[@zavi13]

Jesus lived and died as an observant Jew, Paul started the process of founding the RC Church and Emperor Constantine finished it at Nicaea in 325AD, nothing to do with Jesus/Yeshua at all!

[@irishpride2993]

Hermo Silo yeah you keep telling yourself that mate😂😂😂😂

[@123goodleader]

Yes, indeed.. I am catholic from the Balkans. Ottoman islamic occupation for 500 years tried to erase us and we survived, turks genocided and impaled us on spears for centuries, atheist and communist prosecution we survived, they burned us alive, protestants and orthodoxs attacked us and tried to convert us, they all failed and the Catholic church remained. All other forces, kingdoms,empires,regimes, ideologies pass, but the eternal catholic church remaines. We are now facing the new atheist modern liberal backlash. Bring it on, we shall prevail the evil once again.

[@adamvernon2783]

www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayerbook2008.pdf

[@christopher19843]

@@zavi13 Jesus converted Paul into Christian. Remember Paul became blind and after cured by fellow Christian.

[@santansaraj8462]

Ireland must unite and do what Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia are doing. These nations have the answer to this problem.

[@memebo1922]

right wing white nationalism?

[@1Jason]

You are right but it wont happen. Ireland is gone horribly liberal unfortunately

[@memebo1922]

@@1Jason right wing white nationalism is bad.

[@jesusloveshismum]

@@memebo1922 why bring race into it, Jesus is for every nation, race, tribe and language, his love is held from no one - to him all lives matter, there is no distinction, don't fall for the marxist divide and rule slogans

[@balukuroben7458]

May Saint Patrick of Ireland pray for Ireland .

[@mraihansidhartta309]

But now Catholic Has been Increased in Ireland, UK and other Europe countries after 2017, Glory to be God

[@aughalough1]

I have never-ever seen a good-and-honest book or documentary about the real Irish history, or what the British really did to the Irish. We've all been taught the horror's of the African slave trade. It's in all the school books and in plenty of Hollywood movies.But for some reason the largest group of slaves in the British Colonies in the 17th Century doesn't get mentioned at all: the Irish. The Irish Slave Trade - The Forgotten “White” Slaves - They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children. Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and biased history books and documentaries conveniently forgot.

[@528-i9v]

aughalough1 soooo true I'm Irish and I've always hated the Catholic Vatican Jesuit Roman cunts even as a child you could sense there evil.

[@animosity4u85]

52000 Irish compared to 50 million Africans? A pittance!

[@FAngus-ly8lk]

This is utter bullshit. Irish so-called "white slaves" were indentured servants. That meant they could expect to earn their freedom after a certain period of time. To call them "slaves" as if they were no different from the black slaves imported from Africa, traded and often worked to death like livestock, is grossly inaccurate. This is a distortion of history, often repeated by white nationalists.

[@natanaelrodriguez3953]

@@FAngus-ly8lk Exactly.

[@natanaelrodriguez3953]

aughalough1 YOU TALKING THAT TRASH. YOU ARE MAKING CATHOLICS LOOK BAD, STOOOPPPP, STOP MAKING CATHOLICS LOOK BAD. medium.com/@Limerick1914/the-imagery-of-the-irish-slaves-myth-dissected-143e70aa6e74

[@townsin11]

What is so sad is that So many have given their soul to Satan because of Priests who sold their soul to Satan. The Church is not there to be an institute to please the People, it is there to save souls. How lost we have become

[@cindyrobertson3798]

The Irish today is not

[@townsin11]

@@cindyrobertson3798 What do you mean?

[@Tias.W]

Nice factual reporting here! At 1:01 we're told that in 1946 Pope Paul VI described Ireland as the most Catholic country in the world. That would be kind of hard to do when Pope Paul VI didn't become pope until 1963! Pius XII would've been pope in 1946!!!!

[@zavi13]

Good spot!

[@feslerae]

Did she mean the future Pope? Or did she mean the pope at the time he said that?

[@seanmoore4269]

Ay this point I don't think people really care!

[@MisterPolitical1]

That was the future pope (Paul vi), when he was secretary of state (holy see) in 1946.

[@marisilinacompain5742]

We prayed for each other and pray for the Catholic as a whole , just pray!! nothing is impossible to God, God is Love and Forgiving, He will forgive us all, Love my Catholic Church.

[@simongleaden2864]

Fr. Hogan's not worried about all those Catholics who have lapsed from their faith. But surely those people have put their souls in jeopardy by committing the grave sin of missing Mass without good reason? Is Father unconcerned about the spiritual fate of the lapsed? The Church has not rescinded its teaching that all Catholics are under obligation to attend Mass every Sunday and Holy Day.

[@patriciabyrne5089]

The Catholic Church no longer teaches that missing Mass on a Sunday will result in an eternity in hell. As someone once remarked "The idea of God marking attendance like a school teacher is difficult to imagine never mind believe".

[@AndreasAntoniusMaria]

The future for the Catholic Church in Ireland? A couple of SSPX chapels and nothing else.

[@jonydepp9484]

Truly said bro haha chapels hahah

[@gmanila142]

hope Europe and America regain their faith in the Catholic church

[@TheAaronChand]

So you can go back to the inquisition in Spain or India

[@aughalough1]

Aaron Chand, Modern historians have long known that the popular view of the Inquisition is a myth. Sadly most people are just not willing to hear it. they are more comfortable believing in lies and propaganda and revisionist history.

[@yahulwagoni4571]

In Ireland under Eamon Devalera, the RCC became all about power and money. If they want people to return to its teachings, it will have to give up what had been its two favorite drugs.

[@dibble2005]

He ruined the country with that twisted arch bishop Mcquaid. The made fools of idiots of the Irish people and dragged Ireland back to the dark ages.

[@aughalough1]

Maybe do your research again ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKvRp2yfd6yLbNk

[@rooforlife]

All the Bishops and priests should apologize and do reparation publicly for the sex abuse of children & the coverup

[@jimmycarrollgodblesspoland5521]

God bless Ireland,please Lord clear the snakes and satanises from Ireland

[@MrKingsley16]

Dear Mary, Jesus, St. Michael, God, bring back the Catholic Irish people.

[@genekelly8467]

The church in Spain and Poland is also having challenges. I have no doubt it will survive, but the next few decades will be crucial. As islam invades Europe, having a religion to confront it will be crucial.

[@eevve9894]

Europe's future is atheistic, not religious.

[@notamused3715]

I think it means that the people who do stay practising will be more sincere and have deeper, more vital faith. We need it too, with the removal of the right to life from the unborn in 2018 which has made me angry and ashamed of the nation I have always been so proud of. However, I have met some wonderful people in the pro-life movement, not all Catholic but all decent, caring people and the Catholics are REAL Catholics. Us laity will also have to take more responsibility and strive even harder to live Christian lives every day, not just Sunday so we can have integrity and demonstrate what Christ wants us to be in the face of a lot of aggression and even hatred.Some of those who voted to repeal the 8th seem to have done so out of sheer hatred for the Church, which is disturbing but Jesus told us to rejoice if we are hated because they hated Him first so I'll just get on with it and let the haters hatet!

[@Itsaboutthewaterlife]

Dang: well said.

[@notamused3715]

Thank you!

[@darryndsouza7896]

In this whole comment section, you are the only one who made sense. Also, very nicely written.

[@notamused3715]

Darryn D'Souza- Thank you and God bless you!

[@koko2bware]

Leaving your faith or Church because of some totally irrelevant and unpleasant events is the same as .. burning your home down because of a few rats !! They're forgetting... The man in a cassock is fallible ... but the teachings of the Church are forever infallible !! By leaving the Church, people are only shutting themselves off from their ... eternal SALVATION!!

[@yakovmatityahu]

As a protestant Christian from India I am deeply concerned about the Christians in Ireland...stay with Jesus end with Jesus.

[@TheAaronChand]

Why would you give up an open older self correcting religion such as Hinduism for Christianity as a Hindu it makes no sense how people can belive in the Abrahamic religions ideas of God in the 21st century

[@mackovido]

@@TheAaronChanddoes it make sense for you to bank on christian countries for all modern invention which brought you from darkness to light?

[@TheAaronChand]

@@mackovido Christianity didn't make the West great it was the ideas of the Enlightenment in the 18th century the Renaissance and Constitutionl monarchies Democracy which was a idea from ancient Greece brought back in the 18th 19th centuries. Along with imperialism clonialsim of countries such as India and African countries. The Industry Revolution the Protestant Reformation secularism that changed the west and pulled them out of the dark ages of Europe.

[@adamvernon2783]

www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayerbook2008.pdf

[@yakovmatityahu]

@@TheAaronChand why didn't Hinduism make the world great???if it is a scientific religion??? In fact all the scientists who have done for science have been Christians....not a single hindu or muslim scientists...because only christianty gave science its meaning and purpose... Hinduism is a pagan false religion that is based on repetition of the same false ideas without ever understanding it...

[@paddypenman2682]

I am the truth the life and the resurrection, he who believeth in me shall never die

[@zavi13]

You've got some notions about yourself pal! :)

[@paddypenman2682]

Your knuckles must be sore

[@s.k.6616]

When the church meets people's needs, they come.

[@witniandyhellonewyeartoeve1986]

@Hello S. K. How are you doing?

[@s.k.6616]

@@witniandyhellonewyeartoeve1986 I am great. Thank you.

[@witniandyhellonewyeartoeve1986]

@@s.k.6616 Hello

[@Wayfarer-z4d]

I love my holy catholic Church.but everyone says church should come back to its traditional , it's changing. But not it's us who are changing .a good devout catholic knows everything, he follows Jesus Christ and to spread his words, and live for his church. love the church , love Jesus .God bless Ireland

[@kenlandon6130]

Are you high?

[@Wayfarer-z4d]

@@kenlandon6130 means

[@beautifulspirit7420]

Every decent person is furious and saddened that even one child was sexually abused or abused in any way. What should be pointed out however, is that the John Jay report in the USA showed that 20% of victims were prepubescent children. 80% were MALEs in puberty and therefore the predators were homosexual. The statistics are the opposite in secular society, the vast majority of victims are teen girls. What the current church leadership doesn't want to admit is the high percentage of active homosexuals in the priesthood, shown by the high numbers dying from AIDS. We can't solve a problem we don't acknowledge. The good news is that young priests newly ordained and those in the seminaries across the western world, are orthodox in belief and are heterosexual, as since John Paul II onwards ordaining homosexuals has been discouraged. If you are liberal and lax on church doctrine and belief, you are very unlikely to see any point in becoming a priest or nun. So the liberal secularists in the hierarchy are not reproducing themselves. They are gradually dying out. The church will become leaner and smaller by the next generation, but also the priests and religious will be true believers. They will be teaching the true faith and not something wishy washy and not prophetic enough to be a contrast to modern society. So hang in their faithful Catholics, the new leaders agree with the laity and will be casting out the abusers and corrupt embezzlers of all kinds. It will be a painful purifying but the Church needs it.

[@bagobeans]

I pray for you Fr. Daniel!

[@nino1182]

Bring Traditional religious orders and see what will happen

[@johnnelligan4091]

God Bless You Daniel !!!

[@adamvernon2783]

www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayerbook2008.pdf

[@Gpacharlie]

Daniel is an example of why the church will revive and thrive.

[@adamvernon2783]

www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayerbook2008.pdf

[@keithfarrell3370]

Rubbish. He is wasting his life for a myth. Fool

[@witniandyhellonewyeartoeve1986]

@Hello Chuck W, How are you doing?

[@Yowzoe]

Goodbye Church. It hasn't for the most part been good. Don't let the door hit yer ass on yer way out.

[@TeaLeafThief]

Yowzoe let it hit them on the way out, they paid a lot of our money for them doors. I hope it hits then hard on the way out, might knock some sense of true morals in to them.

[@TeaLeafThief]

Joni Lea that sounds like a vague threat. Would be expected from you people. On behalf of my generation your attitude is no longer welcome in Ireland. We are the age of the informed.

[@paddypenman2682]

Tom Winters from a generation that values self entitlement over life I doubt it.

[@williambaker2779]

Father Daniel is right it's got a begin with him to where the church has got to turn around not only the Catholic Church but all denominations in fact all of Christianity the preachers have to be the one to bring the message custom message and the doctrine matter

[@CharlesSelva]

Correction! Pope Paul Vi became Pope in 1963 and not yet a Pope in 1946.

[@marymcalpine209]

Entertainment belongs in the circus. Pray for Mother Church.

[@thesunprostratesduringthen2957]

i am Bornean...God bless ireland...

[@josephmclaughlin9404]

What an exercise in secular phycobabble…no Daniel.. the church does not revolve around your action! It does as always revolve around Jesus Christ and His teaching and instruction to the apostles which is Jesus Church and the church of the early church fathers…The Catholic Church. Time to throw out the apostates and get back to it.

[@amadain17]

I know very few people that are religious in Ireland. Most religious are over 60. Even my 88 year old mother is not religious. It's dying here and good riddance

[@ioannispolemarkhos7364]

A lot of these people left Jesus on account of Judas. But it's not our place to convince them to go to church- work out our own Salvation first, which is what people failed to do, and why the terrible things happened.

[@deedeebrando6749]

Catholicism in Europe is dying. We need to pray for them.

[@TheAaronChand]

Its dieing because Abrahamic religions such as Christinty Islam and Judaism are intolerant not self correcting and are confined to a specific era of soicety in the middle east where people who where barbarous. And bound by a book of dos and don'ts. As a Hindu Asian religions such as Hinduism Buddhism Jains Sikhs Shintos dont have this problem. We don't prosecute gays say other religions are falsehoods. We adopt. This idea of an all powerful God who loves you cant survive in this century.

[@kuakatabd4821]

1 plus 1 plus 1 = 3, 😁not 1

[@finoladerwin9350]

I use to be R C. It do not live up to date

[@marthamarvelette4565]

What's Next?, They will continued to be Marginalized & Ignored, unless they get back to Feeding the Hungry, Housing the Homeless & Helping the poor. They need to prove they're a benefit to society & NOT a Punitive, Hypocritical, Government in waiting.

[@adamvernon2783]

www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayerbook2008.pdf

[@AntonSlavik]

They really should have shot that first clip with Daniel a few more times. It's good to read from cue cards so you stay succinct and remember everything, but it just looks bad when it's obvious. I'd like to hear an update on this now that Ireland has removed the prohibition against murdering unborns.

[@timurismailovic6866]

God have mercy on us ....

[@528-i9v]

the corner stone is not made of concrete it's made of flesh and blood. THE PEOPLE ARE THE CORNER STONE THEY ARE THE CHURCH NOT BRICKS AND MORTAR

[@adamvernon2783]

www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayerbook2008.pdf

[@miriamwells35]

It's the abuse, my family are all Irish Catholic and have terrible tales too.

[@jesaintlouis]

interesting my family is Irish I have never heard terrible tales I had good experience with the church

[@notamused3715]

Miriam Wells- SO are mine and the only people who abused my parents were teachers, two LAY people.I grew up Catholic and the worst that ever happened to me was one old priest got cross with me for not going to confession for two months. I was never touched nor spoken to even slightly inappropriately and neither were any of the other kids as far as I know.All the other priests were really sound and the ould fella was only grumpy because he was recovering from a stroke. The idea that nearly all Catholic religious are or were abusive is just false, slurring and an attempt at mass character assassination and trivialises the suffering that the real victims went through as well as the seriousness of the crimes the actual abusers committed!

[@zavi13]

@bucket Actually it's more likely a Roman soldier called Julius Abdes Pantera did the job! :)

[@jeromefecto8085]

Is Ireland more or less secularised than Quebec?

[@MultiMcginty]

Probably less. We still have the church in charge of almost all of the schools, a lot of hospitals and abortion is still banned. But it's likely those things will change in the coming years.

[@animosity4u85]

Leo Link the only the good thing about having the church in charge of hospitals is that they are not profit based like in the USA. That is something you doNOT want! Health care should not be about making corporations rich!

[@thomasjhenniganw]

It was the Catholic Church that invented hospitals in the first place and also universities.

[@thomasjhenniganw]

Get a lesson about secularism It is a pseudo-religion with is dogmas and its dictatorial laws. See what is happening in the UK with its hate speech laws etc. Which is better? Christianity which is first and foremost about Jesus Christ or the false religion that dominates the whole Western World?

[@zavi13]

Nonsense! It was actually the early Catholic church that plunged Europe into the Dark Ages through the deliberate destruction of the Greek schools of philosophy and learning across the Empire, a Christian mob even murdered the female philosopher/scientist Hypatia in Alexandria because she refused to stop teaching her students. All discussion of science, philosophy and art was ruthlessly suppressed by the church for hundreds of years.

[@metropcs1521]

The Cardinals and father's . I'll breed the church in England a Mary . If you need one in Ireland so do all the other church even Columbia over and up there to separate them.

[@goyongludi197]

The government of Ireland allow many laws which is not granted to heaven like same sex marriage, gay, lesbians, taboo family like that, and the church stand is always against in that way, this is the primary reason why most people mindset become neutral between church and government, 2nd some priest are connected with sex controversy and abused, is a big challenge to the church leaders to send a missionary with dignity to clean the church from being contaminated with wrong doing by some priest.

[@korbanrabbani8884]

Actually the truth is prevailing throughout the world that people start to understand the beauty of Islam. The indispensable faith that fit the nature of mankind... Back to your fitrah (nature) Back to Islam.

[@SOCORROGM]

the catholic church is growing in Asia[korea,sinapore] but failing in Europe

[@veemukta]

barry graham Christianity is actually declining in South Korea now. You can verify my statement on Google. Churches are becoming empty and less and less people are attending congregation.

[@brendangreally7809]

it has huge problems in Asia- while protestantism has taken a huge hit in South Korean, catholicism remains static...dont show me the stats-- i know that the question on religion was reframed a few years back. CAtholicism in South Korea is strong because it made good choices in promoting democracy and governance and it has not been hit by the money scandals found in protestants

[@zavi13]

Still declining though, once people become more educated and prosperous they have the ability to question the dogma and see the stories told in the Bible for the mythology they are. Churches only grow where there is poverty and a lack of education.

[@pumamountainlion7777]

zavi13 Your partly right and wrong, churches do appear to grow where there is poverty and lack of “education”, when you have nothing to look forward in life, you start to focus more on God, as the Bible says “blessed is the poor in spirit, for he shall inherit the kingdom of God”, materialism and envy are what give rise to ideas such as communism, Marxism and atheism. Now on education, yes the Church appears to thrive where “education” is less enforced, now let’s address some key words, how can we know what is branded as education is truly an education and not an indoctrination of a specific worldview ideology into the people? Education requires investigation, not regurgitating what your told are “facts”, try questioning evolution or the Big Bang or a globe earth in science class, and see what happens, your be sent to special Ed and put on drugs, most science is based on occult teachings, mystery religions and satanic philosophy. The reason why secularism is higher in “educated” people is because they are being indoctrinated. God will destroy the wisdom of the wise, you think your so educated because you went to school and have all these degrees, yet if I asked you a simple question like this you wouldn’t be able to answer it, so here is the question, if evolution is true and homosexuality is genetic, how did the homosexual gene survive through all that natural selection if homosexuals can’t have kids and pass down their genes? Now your forced to admit homosexuality is not genetic and is a social/spiritual thing or you have to admit that there is something in the environment that causes it or that it’s a first generation mutation caused by a genetic defect due to what? Environmental toxins? All of a suddenly combating homosexuality is no longer the immoral thing to do because now we are forced to admit that it’s not a normal gene like eyes or hair and is instead more of a disease/social/spiritual type of issue. Evolution and the idea that homosexuality is genetic can’t be reconciled, yet for some reason, most Darwinist are also homosexual allies, and most creationist are not, who’s the smart one here, at least creationists are smart enough to understand that there is only male and female and the two are meant for each other, but acknowledging the truth makes us bigots and ignorant in the eyes of atheists.

[@wagelaseh1st74]

even in Indonesia who majority muslim catholic is growing

[@MrMwolf69]

THE TRUTH IS SLOWING COMING OUT AND SOON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL PAY FOR HAVING HUMANS LIVING IN FEAR.I WAS RAISED CATHOLIC BUT NOW IAM SPIRITUAL BECAUSE I DON'T FOLLOW THE FAKE WORDS I FOLLOW MY HEART.I FOUND "GOD"MY WAY,NOT THE CORRUPTED WAY.BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART NOT A MAN'S WORD AND YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH.

[@dibble2005]

Exactly. The Church is evil and radical conservatives want to drag it back to the dark ages but it will never succeed. The people can see the evil of clerics.

[@czarduhaylungsod8554]

We are a sleeping giant. Lord Jesus have mercy on us. Our Lady of rosary pray for us.

[@adamvernon2783]

www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayerbook2008.pdf

[@billy1132]

The gates of hell cannot prevail against JESUS CHRIST! Never the church which is unbiblical!!!

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

dude, go irish catholics !😊

[@adamvernon2783]

www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayerbook2008.pdf

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

@@adamvernon2783 thanx 4 that !

[@JBrooksNYS]

I dont go to church because... Why should I?

[@alisinajon2674]

Praying for Holy Mother the Catholic Church.

[@williamf.buckleyjr3227]

Our Blessed Lord told us that the Kingdom of God comes in ways unforseen by man. He also told us to repent and share the good news; the Kingdom of God is at hand. Ireland? Our Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church is UNIVERSAL, brothers and sisters. No sin, and no Cæsar will ever defeat Her. NO NATION - or - ANY ANTHILL ON NUCLEAR DUST will ever stand against the BODY, BLOOD, SOUL, and DIVINITY of our Blessed Lord.

[@brendangreally7809]

i've been to 34 countries including China and India and Dubai and Egypt. I never ever experienced the anti catholic tirade by media- newspapers, radio and TV and in public domain as I found in 3 weeks of travel in Ireland. The current generation have no idea that Ireland was a third world nation before 1980s- the poor could not buried properly, the social welfare was run by the church extremely haphazardly- and no one had a clue about the addictive nature of the paedophile. I will never go back to the land of my fathers- I know it has a great number of hospitable people but its a place of bitter disappointment - full of resentment.

[@zavi13]

So do you support the church then or oppose it?

[@Itsaboutthewaterlife]

Wheww: I was worried there for a moment: I thought you my actually return.

[@kylefosnaugh4148]

The church is being destroyed from the inside out, not the outside in. The bad bishops, popes, and priest with their modernization and secularization of the faith. Paul VI was probably one of the worst popes we have ever had. these are the fruits of the new mass, and the Vatican II council. The fruits of modernism that Pope St. Pius X warned us about.

[@LukeLovesRose]

It's all the Freemasons. Yes. The popes have been Freemasons or Communists since WW2. That's not good.

[@kuakatabd4821]

I love all the religion... Im requesting u to make an honest research in islam..

[@spilkafurtseva1918]

What is the church at 6:14 ?

[@jerrycargill5062]

Galway Cathedral

[@larrybedouin2921]

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. {Revelation 18:4} Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, {2 Corinthians 6:17}

[@eileenknowles6219]

I think if Rome had listened to The Blessed mother and the warnings of Fatima and all other apparitions the world would be a different place. Why has the third secret never been told to the people as she wished why was Russia not consecrated to her immaculate heart THE CARDINALS, Bishops and priests see the way the world is yet they disobey heaven.

[@zavi13]

It's all gobbledegook!

[@eileenknowles6219]

zavi13 To you maybe but think about it .The church maybe but not The Almighty thanks for your response.

[@mick1gallagher]

You're deluded but you can't see that

[@eileenknowles6219]

@@mick1gallagher So the blessed mother is deluded.!!!!!!!!!

[@ericmourinho9589]

The church is under a major change in ireland and in the whole world but itll come back even stronger the church of jesus christ will never die NEVER

[@raskltube]

Ireland is so charming

[@1woksape606]

This will change your life forever today. For Catholics on KZbin: 1woksape Catholic spiritual warfare

[@1woksape606]

All Christians, churches, leaders and religions not knowing and doing spiritual warfare and deliverance will be destroyed in these times of terrible spiritual warfare.

[@nino1182]

The effect of Modernism and Liberalism inside the Church Go back to Tradition!

[@philipocarroll]

What's next? Decline, irrelevance and history, hopefully.

[@fritula6200]

Jordan Goodwin.. in reply.... before you make comments...get your FACTS right and not your opinion...because St Patrick did not force the Irish into Catholicism...they came willingly, because of the Miracles he performed....and the Irish began to love him, they came to listen to him speaking about God and listen to his sermons... they saw how much he loved the Lord Jesus Christ, by the humble way he lived. The Irish converted freely.. they began to live peaceably.. gave away their pagan ways... St Patricks taught them how to live better and get educated... particularly the poor, they Irish grew in holiness and prospered ...the whole country converted to Roman Catholicism.

[@fritula6200]

Neil Gonsalves... in reply... May God Bless you Neil, l do hope, by the Grace of God, you do choose that path which you wrote in your comment. You have been given a special "gift".

[@adamvernon2783]

www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayerbook2008.pdf

[@kevbob88]

All the best and close the door on your way out.

[@JGULLIF]

An astonishing implosion.

[@JRobbySh]

Like what happened to the Church in Quebec.

[@paulmcgrath3882]

It’s hard to say whether the Roman Catholic Church has hurt Christianity more than help it , the first church called themselves “the way” in the book of acts. It didn’t involve all the traditions that men added to the church . It’s not the organisation that saves, its Jesus Christ, John 3:3 unless you are born again (born from above) you will not see the kingdom of God. Repent , Believe , Receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and everything else follows.

[@fritula6200]

Fred Freddy.. in reply. I like what you wrote, and agree with that information you gave us. In my comment l am not defending paedophile clergy... these people are sick... nobody is a born paedophile. A paedophile is made...by being sexually abused as a small child over a long period of time by an adult, who themselves were sexually abused as a little child also; you see the circle goes around... the mind is made sick by the unnatural act. The number of paedophile priests in the RCC compared to the 1.1 billion Catholics is comparatively very small and those who are responsible for the child abuse MUST be tried at the law courts. But, what has happened the Roman Catholic Church has been blamed as the only "cause" , and perpetrator of all paedophilia in the world. The media has a strong and we'll organised lobby to destroy the Roman Catholic Church by exaggeration..."the pen is mightier than the sword". This sickness is in all places, it's in all families... that's where it starts... in the HOME. Nobody seems to be addressing this devastating problem... What are we to do about it? The world is moving away from God, it doesn't want God, the results are, then God will lift His grace from us, allow us to do what we want without Him... and the results are what we see today... who will stop this? It's up to You and I, with God to stop it. We must RETURN to God.

[@neilanadams5173]

The Great Apostasy Unfolding Before Your Eyes

[@adrianmcnamara2950]

So be the remnant.Be a remnant disciple qv

[@JRobbySh]

But don’t forget the immigration from the the continent and the corruption of the politicians by the corporations.

[@aughalough1]

Daniel gallagher I have heard many claims from other denominations including yours that the original church was lost (this goes against the promise in scripture). I have also heard them claim that their church was in existence during those times and that it was the Catholic Church that grew out of their churches. However, these are claims not based on historical evidence. The fact is, the doctrines taught by many denominations were considered heretical even in the early church. Some of the doctrines they have today didn't even exist in the early church. So how they claim their is the 'true' church is beyond me. Maybe they are just trying to convince themselves of their own lies.

[@e.jenima7263]

The politics yes i would agree with, but the loss of the pom and ceramony is a grete loss. i mean u take the elaborit holy days and ceramony out of it and it it does get pretty boring and bland. but at least you still have the euchrist .

[@elenimichailidis2642]

the holy bible was written in Greek

[@lyes1967]

Read your Bible and you will be safe.

[@kuakatabd4821]

I liked your comment very much.....

[@QuyNguyen-lm1gq]

On the contrary, young people leave the church after they read the bible !

[@ericmourinho9589]

The church of jesus christ will prevail

[@johnjoyce1958]

It's not supposed to be a smaller, leaner and efficient church. It's supposed to go out and teach what Jesus thought his Apostles, and baptise and make believers of all nations. The church can't sit back on this. It needs to be pure again, reverent, informative as it was before modernism invaded, and teach proper catacheisis in the schools. It needs to bring back the reverence of the liturgy and reception of the Eucharist ( i.e. kneeling and on the tongue only ). The Latin Mass should be allowed to flourish again. If these things happen Ireland has a chance of becoming a good Catholic country again and an example to the world. If these changes don't happen the church in Ireland will be gone completely before the next generation as this generation will have passed on, and, satan will have achieved his goal of making Ireland 'GODLESS' , with the loss of millions of souls for all eternity. It's time to wake up church and realise the new liturgy, modernist ideologies in the clergy and sex abuse scandals are the death knell of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

[@Randolph1233]

Lord Jesus,save us from abortion. How many babies are now put in bin bags in Ireland? Politicians who take the wide path to perdition are taking many with them. Lord , give us pure hearts to follow your Commandments. Luke ch8 v15 . . . this is people with a noble and generous heart who have heard the word and take it to themselves and yield a harvest through their perseverance.

[@marisilinacompain5742]

God Bless!!!

[@man2841]

TO Irish Roman Catholic people , I'm Polish guy , who was Roman Catholic, why im not more Roman Catholic?? Becuse I read Old and New Testament, Vatican doesn't follow the Bible , they worship different God, ( Jesus Eucharystic) I'm worship Jesus from the Bible , and become Born again Christian, Hope you guys open your Bible and then God will open your eyes .....Greetings.....

[@djmcd2829]

Rubbish

[@man2841]

@@djmcd2829 Why you said that? Any arguments?

[@djmcd2829]

@@man2841 To those who believe no explanation is needed, to those who don’t no explanation is possible

[@man2841]

@@djmcd2829 I will please you give me any arguments from Word of God ( Bible) not how you thinking , If you care....Thanks

[@man2841]

1 Jesus said you have to be born again to Nicodem in Gospel of John .... 2 Jesus said to Samaritan woman drink my water . Are you drinking water too in the Church ? or you only eat body and you drinking the Blood?

[@kuakatabd4821]

What Jesus(PBUH) said about him ? Let the Bible answer.... John 5:30 "I can do nothing on my own. I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

[@metropcs1521]

Save my children . There not Stephen. Stephen is under attack he's still Stephen still the churches but has a few obligations.

[@richardfroste4548]

Satan has had a small victory with the Church, but it is not bad. The Church can recover just as we as individuals can rebound in GODS glory. If treated correctly it will only strengthen the Church in the long run . Church or individual. Pray for GODS GRACE for the Holy Catholic Church both in Ireland and the US. The teachings of the Church are solid even though we have had some failings.

[@user-go3jv8rw7i]

Richard Froste I’m a satanist we don’t believe in Satan god heaven or hell

[@seanogcon]

This Celabcy is insane St. Peter was married.

[@brooklyndave5596]

I was in that church in Galway -way back in 1982

[@shelbourneking3183]

It pleases me a lot to see this happening .People are getting wiser and more rational

[@1Jason]

Yes but now Islam is coming in and taking over. That should terrify you

[@youngirishcatholic7103]

Hello, I'm starting a youtube channel and it's called young irish catholic.

[@kuakatabd4821]

Al-Quran 17:81 And say: "Truth has (now) arrived, and Falsehood perished: for Falsehood is (by its nature) bound to perish."

[@Oo7Hola]

Morjina Cartoon no one cares about your Quran

[@kuakatabd4821]

@@Oo7Hola What Jesus (PBUH) said about him ? Let the Bible answer.... John 5:30 "I can do nothing on my own. I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

[@kuakatabd4821]

@@Oo7Hola is Jesus (PBUH) a prophet ? Let The Bible answer.... Matthew 21:11 The crowds answered, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee." Matthew 13:57 And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home." Luke 24:19 "What things?" he asked. "About Jesus of Nazareth," they replied. "He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.

[@kuakatabd4821]

@@Oo7Hola is Jesus (PBUH) servant of God ? Let The Bible answer .. Acts 3:26 New Living Translation Bible: When God raised up his servant, Jesus, he sent him first to you people of Israel, to bless you by turning each of you back from your sinful ways.” Act 3:13 The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go.

[@jamesl.6026]

U means,the Christian decreasing in europe prove Christianity is false?? Nah2,instead surprisingly in turn this prove christianity is true.This shows that everything which is prophecy in the Bible will comes true.All this signals the fulfillment of the end times prophecy.The Bible says that in the last days, many will turn away from God.There will be a tremendous rise in false teachers,false prophets, false church, false doctrine(progressive christianity)which is already happening in the world because of a secular world.See what is spoken about the religious leaders scandal happening today which is already prophecy in the Bible. 2 Peter 2:1-3 1.But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secrectly bring in destructive heresies,even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2.And many will follow their destructive ways,because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3.By covetousness they will expose you with deceptive words, for a long time their judgement has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber. As it is said in the second verse, because of what is happening in the church, the priest and the church leader scandal,Christianity is criticised and condemned publicly using the media.Those Christians who just don't about the Bible got misleaded and fall away. The third verse also says about the teleevangelist who earns lots and lots of money from people by using deceptive words and most of them becomes millionaire which is also why the church is widely criticised in the social media. If u don't know the Bible, it is easy to say that Christianity is not true because of all the things which happens in the church globally.

[@BestSales_omodajkt]

please bring back catholic to the latin mass