Alice Quinza, a student from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, had just attended Sunday evening Mass at the Pro Cathedral in Dublin city centre. She felt the Mass carried “not the same energy”as in her country, where it would be “more exuberant”.
Quinza said it was “very different to the way we worship back in Congo”.
Others from Nigeria, Spain and the Philippines agreed: the Masses here are shorter, less methodical and often “too relaxed”.
As the number of practising Irish Catholics decreases, a growing diversity among congregations attending Masses in the Republic is becoming ever more pronounced.
It is similar with clergy in recent years, with more and more African and Asian priests leading liturgies in Catholic parishes across the island as a whole.
Walter and Indira Kuizon, from the Philippines, have been in Ireland f
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