Building the republic from Heaven Downwards

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT A TRULY CATHOLIC SOCIETY MIGHT LOOK LIKE STUDY 1950S IRELAND.
The Republic of Ireland in the 1950s was ninty-eight per cent Roman Catholic and rising. There was no inti-clericalism against which it had to struggle, unlike France or Spain. There was no Communism, either in the form of Stalinism as in Poland, Croatia, or Hungary or Eurocommunism as in Italy. There was no Protestantism to speak of, as they were on the retreat for well over a hundred years by this time, and no letargy as in Britain. Ninty-eight per cent of the population went to mass on Sundays. Catholic doctrine was written into the constitution of the country. The controlled all the primary schools, all the fee paying secondtary schools, the universities - with the exception of one, Trinity College, which they made it a mortal sin to attend. The controlled the hospitals so that no termination of pregancy was possible or any form of birth controlled was allowed. They controlled the orphanges which allowed them to take infant from their mothers and sell them to Catholic abroad. They controlled mother and baby homes  Through pressures from lay Catholic organisation like the