No longer merely lapsed: In Ireland today, we are choosing our religion

Joyce Fegan asks four people to open up about how they left one faith behind, and about their new lives

Retired Archbishop Diarmuid Martin suggested that many pre-Covid worshipers will never return to Mass. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

In the first day of a two-day special report, Joyce Fegan asked four people to open up about how they left one faith behind, and about their new lives. And, despite the stereotype that people merely fade from a particular practice of religion, she discovered that each of them has been on a spiritual journey towards the life that is right for them.

“THE POST-pandemic church will look significantly different to the church we traditionally knew," these were the words of Diarmuid Martin, the Archbishop of Dublin at the end of 2020 (now retired).