Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Audio Sancto Audio Sancto 2, 15 15 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Welcome to the site! This next has nothing to do with the quality of your answer, it's just standard to help new visitors avoid misunderstanding the site as I did at first.
As a new visitor, I'd recommend checking out the following two posts, which are meant to help newcomers "learn the ropes": help page and How we are different than other sites? However, that said, while this is perfectly reasonable, I don't see how it is different from, or adds anything to the accepted answer. Narnian Curt Curt 1. Welcome to C. Your second paragraph here is a little closer to what we are looking for - answers that actually engage the question!
Im leaving in your first, however, as I suspect you are using it to attest to your credentials. Ideally, a little more sourcing and reference to authorities beyond yourself would be helpful. Admittedly, your answer reminded me of a scene from 30 Rock, where Jack Donaghy explains to Tracy Jordan the difference between Irish and Roman Catholic, and it all boils down to guilt and the ability to get forgiven for anything just by doing confession.
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Last year, three bestselling German books had Catholic themes; one was a very readable critique of globalisation and the financial crisis by Reinhard Marx, the archbishop of Munich. In Ireland, the reporting of homilies is mainly limited to any content on clerical child abuse.
Although this might chime with some Irish Catholics, the roots are entirely different. Italian Catholicism remains hugely active in Italian politics. When the media tycoon and former centre-right prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, desperately wanted to persuade the former Christian Democrat UDC party to join his shaky government coalition in the summer of , his closest collaborators contrived a very political dinner party.
In the Irish church, these are not the issues that come up for discussion. The child-abuse scandals will not vanish easily. Nor will the debates relating to school patronage and the wealth of religious orders. Meanwhile, many Irish priests and laity insist there is healthy life in the Irish Catholic Church, pointing to the churches that are packed for novenas and the annual uniquely Irish penitential rites, such as pilgrimages to Lough Derg or Croagh Patrick, which remain popular.
And ordinary, decent Catholics are now behaving and believing in ways readily recognisable to their European-mainland counterparts. Inglis quotes a study showing that 17 per cent of Irish Catholics did not believe in life after death and 44 per cent did not believe in hell. But a high proportion still went to Mass about once a month or more. The Bray man turned Anglo Irish Bank into a financial force before it collapsed in scandal. Tyrone man achieved rare distinction of making political impact on both sides of border.
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Editors continuously recheck submissions and claims. Archived Questions Goto Qn. Is there any primary difference between Irish Catholics and Roman Catholics, and if so, what? Currently voted the best answer. Though many people nowadays pretend that the Celtic Church was seperate from Rome, this was a fallacy.
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