[Irish_Thatcherite]

It's an understandable trend considering that Irish people neither want modern secularist Ireland, nor do they want a return to the authoritarian nature of old Catholic Ireland.

[escapefromboston]

There goes the neighborhood.

[NYer]

"There have been a lot of disappointments in the Catholic Church over the last few years. Things have come out in the media that have shaken basic assumptions that people have had and people are not ready to give up on God and ready to give up on spirituality, but they're coming back and saying, 'Is there another option?'"

While it is comforting to know that these catholics retain a desire to continue worshiping God, they have forgotten their "marriage" vows to God through the church in which they were baptized - to love, honor and obey in good times and bad. How much simpler to look outside the relationship for a younger model with fewer constraints.

[Youngblood]

With an estimated weekly total congregation in evangelical churches rising by 13,000 members each week in the Dublin area alone, the Catholic majority in Ireland is shifting and forming a new religious face.

There are 13,000 Dubliners joining evangelical churches every week? Almost 1% of the Greater Dublin population, each week? That is bollocks!

[RKBA Democrat]

The title of this article was : "Ireland’s Growing Evangelical Churches Shift Congregation from Catholic Majority."

The article later states the following: "In Ireland, 4.2 million among the 5.6 million-strong total population are Catholics." Hmmm. Last I checked that means 75% of the population is Roman Catholic. Wouldn't that be a majority, and a fairly large one?

[Thorin]

Thanks for posting. I really have little use for evangelicals who send missionaries to Catholic countries, where the Catholics have done the hard work (converting people from paganism to Christianity) and the evangelicals are looking for easy pickings. If evangelicals put 10% of the effort in the Arab world that they put into Latin America, I'd have much more respect for them. (And even in the Arab world, they mostly focus on established Christian communities, not Moslems).

[Salvation]

Prayers that the Catholics will keep their faith and eventually come back to the true church (with the four marks of one, holy, catholic and apostolic.)