Irish Examiner view: It can be decades before the impact of reforms are fully appreciated

Two anniversaries we mark this week involved radical change in terms of making divorce available and tackling violence against women

Pope Paul VI expressed his 'deep grief' when Italy's divorce law was passed 

Divorce was once unknown within Catholicism and it’s easy to find people in Ireland who remember those days.

But seismic change began 50 years ago tomorrow, when Italians voted in what the then Cork Examiner described as a “topsy-turvy” referendum on whether to repeal a three-year-old law that allowed divorce.