Irish Examiner view: Politics can learn from Catholicism

Unchanging institutions rejected

Darragh O'Brien, Minister for Housing Local Government and Heritage. Picture: Moya Nolan

This weekend, Catholic churches were probably quieter than any other Easter weekend since the Catholic Emancipation Act was passed in 1829.

 Pandemic restrictions were, for a second year, central to this but that cannot mask a relentless breaking away. That end of fealty has different meanings for different generations. Some older people are still angered by Catholicism’s historic role, yet some of their peers remain loyal to the idea, if not the institutions, of that church.