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Article: Letter: Irish church attendance
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 9, 1994
- Author:
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IN YOUR leader "Catholics and the state" (20 November) you refer
to a figure in relation to regular church attendance in Ireland
which I believe is wrong (although it has been quoted elsewhere).
"This is the most orthodox Catholic community in the Western
world, where more than 80 per cent attend Mass once a week."
As reported in the Irish Times of 1 July 1994, the book Values
and Social Change in Ireland quotes a figure of 59 per ...