Back in 1979, I tried my best to avoid the first papal visit. As a young man in my early 20s, I recoiled from this particular blockbuster. What was it with the supplication of the establishment and their genuflection to Pope John Paul II? I spent the day in Captain America’s on Grafton Street in Dublin, gripped by a funk about Irish society and the hold the Catholic Church enjoyed over it.
And last...
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