" they seem to promote the ideals of the Catholic Church, regarding homosexuality, family, abortion etc."
It seems to have escaped your notice that the views expressed by the old guard of the Church are as extremist as they come
Some have still to leave behind the opinion that sex is a necessary evil and the church constantly attempts to infuence the various referaenda on pregnancy termination.
Ireland is on the point of taking its first giant step into the middle of the twentieth century compared to Britain - we await with bated breath to se whether it will make it
A few years ago a couple of 'Magdalene Nuns' were interviewed over their roles in the Madelene Laundries
They said their work was "guided by god" and described their victims as "fallen women" and "the sweepings of the street"
Dickens would have been proud of such phrases had propriety allowed him to use them
Jim Carroll