Many
Catholics in Ireland are experiencing a crisis of faith, according to
reports, but two founders of a new Irish Catholic college are arguing
that a new springtime is possible thanks to the country’s rich Catholic
patrimony and by means of renewed Catholic education.
The “Irish Catholic Church has fallen on hard times,” Greg Erlandson recently wrote at OSV Newsweekly, pointing to several factors which caused a widespread abandonment of the Church. These include “[g]rowing economic success and what appears to have been a long period of poor catechesis,” as well as “[t]he clerical sexual abuse crisis and the weak response to it.” According to Erlandson, the “system of Catholic catechesis in state-supported schools seems to be collapsing. Children are under-catechized, and parents are under-evangelized.”
http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4084/Deep-Catholic-Roots-Faithful-Education-Can-Help-Renew-Irish-Church-Founders-of-New-College-Say.aspx
The “Irish Catholic Church has fallen on hard times,” Greg Erlandson recently wrote at OSV Newsweekly, pointing to several factors which caused a widespread abandonment of the Church. These include “[g]rowing economic success and what appears to have been a long period of poor catechesis,” as well as “[t]he clerical sexual abuse crisis and the weak response to it.” According to Erlandson, the “system of Catholic catechesis in state-supported schools seems to be collapsing. Children are under-catechized, and parents are under-evangelized.”
http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4084/Deep-Catholic-Roots-Faithful-Education-Can-Help-Renew-Irish-Church-Founders-of-New-College-Say.aspx