CATHOLICISM: A GLOBAL HISTORY FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO POPE FRANCIS

JOHN T. McGREEVY W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 9781324003885 €35 Reviewed by Gerard O’Sullivan Gerard O’Sullivan is a surveyor and a non-practising barrister.  As an Irish Catholic, I grew up in an era steeped in traditional religious ritual where clerical authority was unquestioned, and witnessed in my teens the effect on Irish life of the ‘reformation’ ... Read more

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