Survey shows that 85% of the people identify themselves as Catholic but 60% favor women’s ordinations, and 78% of priests say clergy should be allowed to get married.
Catholic World Report: During a meeting at the Vatican in 1946, Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini—the future Pope Paul VI—told Ireland’s ambassador to the Holy See, “You are the most Catholic country in the world!” The latest figures from the country’s census show that, in some respects at least, Ireland remains an overwhelmingly Catholic country. Read full report here.
