Terry Prone writing in today's Sunday Times reacts to research discussing the links between Catholicism, Protestanism and Corruption.
Terry Prone: Catholic corruption flourishes - Times Online
Was she drawing influence from Elaine Byrne's article in last Tuesday's Irish Times on the same topic inspired by the same research?
Will 10% more Protestants lead to less corruption? - The Irish Times - Tue, Mar 31, 2009
Rip off might be too strong a word but it is definitely on the same theme, one might have expected some acknowledgement of the IT article. There again I've banged on for ages here and elsewhere that we need to have less priestly intercession type politics and be more protestant like but not with anything to back up that idea. It's really a general theme not IP as such.Originally Posted by myk
Last edited by KingKane; 5th April 2009 at 04:49 PM.
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The idea of a link between Catholicism and an implicit indifference to corruption has been kicked around a long time.
I've read both articles, and it also briefly featured in a book I recently read, Luck and the Irish, (Foster).
I'd say it's a coincidence, although there is no doubt Irish hackdom is a cloistered world, they do feed off one another.
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