Her new book Irlandia wstaje z kolan, Ireland Gets Up Off Its Knees, offers a quick primer on Irish Catholic history and how-to tips for Poles to follow our example.
But there are differences, too. Four times Ireland’s size with nearly eight times as many people, Poland’s pre-war population included three million Jews and anti-Catholic feeling was common. Today, similar to Ireland, growing prosperity has supercharged Polish secularism and support for a fresh pushback against the church by the newThat ban was the pay-off for close church co-operation with the last Law and Justice government.
Some 71 per cent of Poles identified as Catholic in 2021, down from 88 per cent a decade earlier, while weekly mass attendance has slid by a fifth since 2019. Some 280 men began priest training in 2023, down 73 per cent on a decade ago. Not all scandals here are so wearily familiar to Irish ears. Earlier this month a Polish priest from the Sosnowiec diocese was given an 18-month prison sentence for hosting an orgy, ignoring a passed-out guest – and obstructing paramedic access to the unconscious man, the boyfriend of another attending priest.
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