A Church in Crisis
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Since Ireland's independence, the Catholic Church has played a preeminent role in defining morality south of the border. However in recent decades, its position as moral arbiter has come under attack. Congregation sizes have fallen dramatically, and constitutional referenda have legalised contraception, divorce and gay marriage despite the vehement opposition of the Catholic Church. As Ireland goes to the polls to vote this time on abortion, William Crawley asks could this signal further decline in the Catholic Church's authority in society and its relationship with the State. Producer: Neil Morrow.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the Maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:40.0 | Many people pray for charity. |
| 0:42.0 | There's much better than... Many people pray for charity. |
| 0:43.0 | It would be much better as to pray for faith, |
| 0:46.0 | because we forget that God whom we love and charity |
| 0:51.0 | is known to us only through faith. |
| 0:55.0 | Hi, I'm Riana Dylan and you're listening to seriously. |
| 0:59.0 | We don't just have Catholics in this country anymore. |
| 1:02.0 | We have people that don't have any religion, we have Muslims, we have Protestants, we have everything. |
| 1:06.0 | So we should be known as a multicultural, multidominational country. |
| 1:10.0 | Today's seriously interesting story is a church in crisis, specifically the Catholic |
| 1:17.1 | Church in Ireland. The young people I meet who do have faith, they own their own |
| 1:21.8 | faith. |
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