Pope Francis in Ireland

Pope Francis in Ireland.
The Pope will be in Ireland this weekend.
Ireland is a Catholic Country
A Conservative Catholic Country..
However this is a Catholic Country that has undergone a social revolution since a Pope last visited this island forty years ago.
This will be just the second time a Pope has visited Ireland
In the intermittten time Ireland has endured many a scandal in the Irish Catholic Church
Where Ireland is still having to come to terms with all the Scandals that they have had.
Pope Francis has head of this organisation must answer as many a scandal is worldwide with eye this year looking at USA, Chile and Australia to even say the least.
despite the furore there will be the Vatican Flags bestowed on the streets that the Pope Francis is parading on with bundreds of thousands waving them
With religious merchandise for sale profoundly throughout
More than half a million will celebrate a mass in the Phonenix Park in Dublin to a 3,000 choir
there will significantly less than the 2.7 million that came to see Pope John Paul II in 1979 (that was half the population of Ireland then)
In 1979 more than nine in ten attended mass each week.
The Ireland of 1979 had homosexuality illegal alongwith abortion, divorce, and contraception.
popular votes have overturned those laws contravening their Catholic teachings
Mass attendance at Catholic Churches has fallen now to well below 10 per cent in many Dublin parishes.
Leo Varadkar, is a recognised gay man whom himself, was born on 1979, has now become the taoiseach - the Irish Prime Minister
So many a thing has changed in Ireland since the last Pope reached and preached on those Ireland shores.
the head of the Irish Catholic church, Archbishop Eamon Martin,
But the Irish people are very proud he’s coming to Ireland
“The Irish people are the most generous in the world. We forgive and forget
because we’re a good-natured people.
We’ve even forgiven the English
for 800 years of tyranny.
When he arrives, everyone’s spirits will be lifted.”