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  • Irish church deserves to die, says outspoken Irish priest [barf]

    02/12/2018 10:29:06 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 8 replies
    Irish Central ^ | February 10, 2018 06:15 AM | James O’Shea
    An outspoken priest in the Dublin archdiocese has written a highly controversial book titled Five Reasons the Irish Church Deserves to Die.Father Joe MacDonald was a late vocation at 45, but 11 years later he is a highly popular figure in his home parish of St. Matthews in Ballyfermot, a working class area of Dublin. He believes the church desperately needs to modernize, and that the continued lack of vocations will eventually cripple the church. Dublin now has only 220 priests, the vast majority of them elderly, for a population of one million. The church must change or die, he...