The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship by Scally, Derek - 2021-06-15

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London: Penguin/Sandycove, 2021 9781844885268. Softcover. B-format paperback. First edtion. First printing. Number 001. VG. No annotations, inscriptions or highlighting. 8vo. 352 pages including endnotes and very detailed index.. Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2021. ."Brilliant, engaging and essential." Colm Toibin "At once intimate and epic, this is a landmark book." Fintan O'Toole. When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the church where he was once an altar boy. Not for the first time, the collapse of the Catholic Church in Ireland brings to mind the fall of another powerful ideology - East German communism. The dwindling power of the Church in Ireland is undeniable. Scally sees that the Irish are dealing with just as great a shock to their sense of collective identity as the East Germans after the fall of Communism. So he embarks on a quest to unravel the tight hold the Church had… Read More

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