Posted on 05/10/2022 6:24:46 PM PDT by marshmallow
Catholic church weddings continue to be the most popular type of marriage ceremony in Ireland according to the latest figures released by the Central Statistics Office.
According to new CSO figures, 39 per cent of all marriages in 2021 were Catholic ceremonies, a rise from 34.6 per cent in 2020 but lower than 2019. Civil ceremonies accounted for 34 per cent of ceremonies.
In 2021, a total of 17,217 marriages took place compared to 9,523 in 2020. The 2020 figure was much lower due to the Covid-19 pandemic which saw significant restrictions on weddings.
However, the new figures also show that non-religious marriages now outnumber Catholic marriages with 43.3 per cent of couples opting for a non-religious ceremony.
The majority of the marriages that took place in 2021 were opposite-sex marriages at 16,717. A total of 500 same-sex marriages took place of which 252 were male same-sex marriages and 248 were female same-sex marriages.
(Excerpt) Read more at thetablet.co.uk ...
No mention in source article regarding Protestant ceremonies, which I assume fall under non- religious in Ireland?
Less than 25% of weddings take place in a church or other religious institutions in the United States and that was before COVID.
Very true. My last wedding was not in the church, as their requirements were too strict.
The Germans are masters over no one. They take their orders from globalist oligarchs and neocons, most of them residing in the U.S.
In 2018 Ireland voted in abortion ...
My Protestant great grandparents were married in church in Ireland 1856 ...
The Ballyroney Presbyterian Church in County Down ...
That was occupied Ireland. There are more Protestants in the UK-run northern Ireland. Of course the Scots-Irish are a thing.
No County Down is now in Northern Ireland ...
at that time Ireland was one country ...
And around the same time they voted in queer “marriage.” At no time before or after these two abominations occurred did Red Frankie say a word about it. He let Catholic fall into the ocean in Ireland and ever uttered a sound.
Seriously, what man is crazy enough to attach himself to the “old ball & chain” without some form of a higher power to back him up?
This is not the Ireland of my grandparents.
Only Catholics left in Ireland are the Polish immigrants.
Irish ate the EU Soup.
Yes. Me too. My last nine weddings or so have not been in a church.
Those idiots. They always have standards. pisses me off.
I don’t believe it Nana.
I could be wrong, but I really think voting has not been “true” for decades.
Easier to get remarried (if you are having a church wedding the second time).
Ireland,once a proud and decent nation,has become just another tawdry little European cesspool thanks to their new masters in Berlin.
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Ireland,once a proud and decent nation, has become just another tawdry little European cesspool thanks to their new masters in Vatican City. (There, fixed it!)
[More bitter fruit of the Satan Council, 1962-1965.]
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