Faith, hope and clarity?
A new church for the unhoused
in Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism
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06 Apr 2017
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Michael Cronin opens this chapter by observing that the greatest threat to Irish society has been the dominant discourse of neo-liberalism and the Market, which has come to be the deity to which all must bend. The Irish Church has traditionally been associated with a regime of fear and punishment, which is somewhat paradoxical given that the founding message of Christianity is one of hope, of the end of fear. In Cronin’s view, a more radical move for a Church, which has been brought to its knees by a multiplicity of cultural factors, would be to embrace empathy and a politics of hope, which might consist of no longer saying ‘No’, but ‘Yes’. The affirmation of justice for all, a more equal sharing of wealth, the creation of a climate where difference is embraced, these are the life-affirming and Christian principles on which the future of Irish Catholicism should be based.

Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism

From Galway to Cloyne and beyond

Editors: Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien
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9781526117199
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
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Sociology
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Irish Catholicism; Catholic identity; Irish culture; Secularism
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Manchester University Press

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