Timeline... Catholic scandals and Weekly Mass attendance in Ireland
1972-1973 91%
1981 87%
1980s - rumors persist about Priest sexual abuse of children
1988-1989 87.6%
1994 - "Suffer the children" documentary airs in Ireland
2000s - Priest sex abuse stories are widespread
2006 56%
2007-2008 44%
2010 45.2%
2011 30%
2014 (mass grave of 800 children found at nun's home for unmarried mothers story breaks)
2018 - Ireland votes to end abortion ban
up to 800 children were thrown in a sewage tank by nuns paid to care for them at an Irish home for unmarried mothers. Now Liam Neeson joins the fight for the Pope to confront the truth
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6098137/Tuam-scandal-cesspit-babies-Liam-Neeson-joins-fight-Pope-face-truth.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases