Religious tolerance should be respected

I read The Irish Examiner article: “Archbishop: Secularism not all bad for Ireland”.

I was very pleased that the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, said “very few of us would wish to return completely to the type of society many of us grew up in, where the Church dominated so much of Irish culture, and where the bishops and clergy dominated the Church.”

I agree with him completely. Centuries ago, bishops tended to rule with an “iron fist” and it is a bad mix to intertwine Church affairs with governmental affairs.