The Dean’s last stand over the paper thinness of Irish ecumenism…
If the congregation of Dublin’s St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin had known what their Dean, Robert McCarthy (biographer of his much overlooked predecessor John Henry Barnard), was going to say in his final Evensong sermon about the poor quality of religious ecumenism in Ireland [and a few other things besides – Ed], they might have had the foresight to advertise it more widely. Patsy McGarry has the dope: THE DEMORALISED state of the Catholic Church in Ireland “may have something to …