There is a story in Patsy McGarry’s absorbing memoir of his journalistic life Well, Holy God which illustrates the status the Catholic Church once had.  McGarry had recently become Religious Affairs correspondent for The Irish Times when, in the paper’s office on a Sunday morning in December 1997, he received a call from a Church of Ireland source.  The source indicated that the new president of Ireland Mary McAleese would be attending the Eucharist Service at Christ Church cathedral that morning. Her predecessor Mary Robinson, the source tells him, had never attended a Eucharist in Christ Church during her entire…

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