Religious Disparity Quotes
There has been a similar demographic condition since.
In Ireland at the time the established church—the Protestant Anglican Church of Ireland—had the legal right to collect annual Tithes from the population in order to fund the activities of the Church. One difficulty however, was that the majority of the population were Roman Catholics. The poorest of them could not afford the tithe payments to any church. The Irish Protestant clergy lived in a particularly sumptuous style and were much more interested in politics and maintaining the Protestant ascendency than they were in ministering to the poor and had no interest in aiding the Catholic poor.
