Maynooth row is symptom of wider struggle in Church

Conservatism and liberalism are at war in the Irish Church, with the majority of bishops resistant to change

Maynooth College

How Ireland has changed. Who could have anticipated the Archbishop of Dublin explaining to RTÉ’s News At One that “people are on an app called Grindr, which is a gay dating site”?

Diarmuid Martin’s decision to send trainee priests to the Irish College in Rome instead of Maynooth is a symptom ofa deeper underlying ideological struggle within the Irish Catholic Church.

What do Irish priests and the laity think? What is really going ...