Sean Kay
Contributor at Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sean Kay is Robson Professor of Politics and Government at Ohio Wesleyan University, chair of the International Studies interdisciplinary program, and director of the university's Arneson Institute for Practical Politics and Public Affairs. He speaks frequently in the United States and Europe about European affairs. He has previously been a visiting professor at Dartmouth College and worked in the US Defense Department in Washington, D.C. Source
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britannica.com | Robert Walter Dudley Edwards |Sean Kay
Ireland - Social, Religious, Changes: The close relationship between the Irish republic and the Roman Catholic Church was highlighted by the visit of Pope John Paul II to Ireland in 1979, the first visit there by a reigning pontiff. But the fraying of that relationship, signaled in the 1960s and ’70s by a collapse in vocations to the priesthood and a decline in attendance at mass, continued in the 1980s and ’90s. The clause in the 1937 constitution acknowledging the special position of the Roman Catholic Church had been removed in 1972, although in 1983 the conservative resistance of Catholic pressure groups resulted in a
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