Daring to hope?

Abstract

In a recent edition of the Sunday Times Martin Jacques wrote an article entitled 'The Erosion of the Establishment '1 in wllli:h he offered an analysis of the British Establishment at the present time and suggested that it is too attached to its past successes to be able to deal with the crisis of modernity. What he had to say could be applied with some modification to the Church and to the Church in Ireland in particular.