Many see church as lacking compassion, archbishop says, as pope remains silentTwo Irish archbishops have acknowledged the dramatic reversal of the Catholic church’s domination of Irish society after the results of the referendum on abortion. Eamon Martin, the archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland, said Irish culture had changed and that people had drifted away from the church. Ireland’s landslide vote to legalise abortion on Friday signals the end of the Catholic church’s domination of the republic. That was illustrated on Saturday by young women at Dublin Castle chanting “get your rosaries off our ovaries” as the referendum results came in. Michael Nugent of Atheist Ireland said the referendum “sees the fall of the Catholic Berlin Wall that has kept a pluralist Irish people trapped within the laws of a Catholic Irish constitution”.

Source: The Guardian May 27, 2018 10:45 UTC